Patent ID: 9569594
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G10L,G16H,G16Z

Claim:
1. A method comprising: transcribing audio data comprising audio of one or more clinical personnel speaking while performing a sterile procedure, the audio data comprising audio of a first clinician speaking to one or more other clinical personnel while performing the sterile procedure, wherein transcribing the audio data comprises performing automatic speech recognition (ASR) on the audio data using a speech recognition model trained to recognize speech of the first clinician; analyzing the transcribed audio data, including the transcribed audio of the first clinician speaking to the one or more other clinical personnel while performing the sterile procedure, using at least one processor, to identify relevant information for documenting the sterile procedure, the analyzing comprising: automatically generating a text report including the designated relevant information documenting the sterile procedure; wherein determining that the information in the statement is relevant for documenting the sterile procedure comprises detecting in the statement a present-tense narration by the first clinician stating to the other clinical personnel that the first clinician is currently performing a particular step of the sterile procedure; wherein automatically generating the text report comprises automatically transforming the present-tense narration into a non-present-tense text portion in the report, stating that the particular step of the sterile procedure was performed.