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		jimbokun on May 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IBM’s Watson Now A Second-Year Med Student "Even perfect speech recognition would only get you part of the way there, and we aren't likely to get that any time soon." We're working on it, though. http://www.mmodal.com Most of the time, there is still a transcriptionist in the loop. Or the doctor has to make his own edits.

nradov on May 27, 2011 [–]

I know, we use your service. :-) It works well for increasing the productivity of our human transcriptionists but it doesn't really solve the automated diagnosis data entry problem that others were asking about.

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