Amazon's machine learning transcription service aims to ease docs' tasks

Amazon Web Services is rolling out an electronic health record-supported machine learning transcription service that uses speech recognition applications to ease physician documentation. The product is Amazon Transcribe Medical, which automatically translates audio streams into medical speech, enabling affordable, secure and accurate note taking for clinical staff, researchers and other stakeholders. Cerner, for example is using the product in an initial development of a digital voice scribe that automatically listens to clinician and patient interactions and captures the conversation in text form. The service enables developers to add medical speech-to-text capability to their applications. Amazon is positioning Transcribe Medical as a tool to ease physician and researcher burnout.