Modern EMRs all include a voice transcription service that allows doctors to focus on talking with their patients instead of typing on a keyboard during the visit. I think doctors using OpenMRS would benefit from this technology and so am planning to add this feature for the dev team to review and hopefully incorporate.
From reviewing the codebase and the current structure of the OpenMRS site I am planning to start by adding an AI transcription service to the Visit Note section that will allow the doctor to record and capture key details of the conversation. Down the line it would be nice if this conversation would auto-populate sections of visit note that were covered but for now I will focus on setting up the transcription functionality.
If folks have engineering thoughts or questions I’d be happy to hear them. Or if there are any doctor/clinician/healthcare admin users of OpenMRS reading this, or that anyone can connect me with I would love to talk to you.
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Of course using a web API call to a GPT service just for demo / test purposes is still very interesting; just wanted to share these 2 limitations (privacy and internet) for our on-site settings.