Patent ID: 11881302
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A host device for improving safety of performing one or more medical tasks by providing access to a medical domain-specific virtual clinical assistant, the host device being capable of accessing at least one network, the host device comprising:
at least one microphone configured to receive free-form speech instruction from a medical professional; and
at least one speaker configured to output audio to the medical professional; and at least one processor configured to:
provide, to the medical professional, at least one graphical user interface to the virtual clinical assistant;
using a dialog component, receive the free-form speech instruction from the medical professional via the at least one microphone;
provide the free-form speech instruction for speech processing, including automatic speech recognition, at least by transmitting the free-form speech instruction over the at least one network to an automatic speech recognition component to recognize at least a portion of the free-form speech instruction;
provide the recognized free-form speech instruction to a natural language understanding component to assist in automatically identifying from the free-form speech instruction at least one medical task to be performed;
identify, using the free-form speech instruction, medical information to be obtained from a medical information resource via the at least one network; and
using the dialog component, establish a dialog between the virtual clinical assistant and the medical professional at least by:
providing, via the at least one speaker, at least one query spoken to the medical professional regarding the free-form speech instruction prior to the at least one medical task being performed;
displaying the at least one query on the graphical user interface; and
receiving first information from the medical professional, via the at least one microphone, responsive to the at least one query to improve the safety of performing the at least one medical task.