Informatics in radiology: Use of a macro scripting editor to facilitate transfer of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry reports into an existing departmental voice recognition dictation system

Radiographics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1181-1189

  Iv, Michael ^a   Patel, Mahesh R ^a   Santos, Adam ^a   Kang, Young S ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; RADIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; RADIOLOGY; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WORD PROCESSING;

EID: 79960528603     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.314105741     Document Type: Article

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