On Wednesday 07 Mar 2007 8:19 am, Shyam Visweswaran wrote: > As far as I know there is no good > way for electronic capture of patient notes. > Handwriting capture (like your mobile e-note) is > the least intrusive but is unprocessable by > machines in any intelligent fashion. Handwriting > to text conversion may help but is still very > error-prone in the medical domain.
Absolutely - and in fact (you may know more about this than I do) handwriting processing by the human brain is also error prone - though less so than by software algorithms. Under the circumstances it makes sense to maintain the original note in image file format for varying and fuzzy interpretation that the multiple human brains are good at. Besides - humans quickly learn to recognize symbols and abbreviations and reasonably accurately guess their relevance and context. The handwriting recognition software that comes with this e notepad was great for the sales reps practised hand, but my handwriting will surely cause it to crash. I'll find out later today in any case. shiv
