Toward Automated Clinical Transcriptions

Administrative documentation is a major driver of rising healthcare costs and is linked to adverse outcomes, including physician burnout and diminished quality of care. This paper introduces a secure system that applies recent advancements in speech-to-text transcription and speaker-labeling (diarization) to patient-provider conversations. This system is optimized to produce accurate transcriptions and highlight potential errors to promote rapid human verification, further reducing the necessary manual effort. Applied to over 40 hours of simulated conversations, this system offers a promising foundation for automating clinical transcriptions. Introduction Accurate and timely documentation is essential in the healthcare sector, but manual transcription of patient-physician interactions is laborious, and errors are common. The extensive burden of documentation placed on clinicians takes away valuable time from patient care.