Could voice control of the EHR improve physician efficiency and satisfaction?
Farhad Manjoo, the NYTimes tech reviewer, wrote a story this week about the Amazon Echo, a device for the home using the Amazon Alexa voice recognition service to allow natural-feeling interactions with web searches and web-connected home devices. My immediate reaction was that this will be the human-computer interaction with the future EHR. Where we now use the mouse and keyboard to search endlessly through complicated menus, in 5-10 years, we will instead be able to say alo