Medical Root Words

A collection of medical terminology.

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DARPA
Military agency that funded early SRT research
Shoebox
First speech recognition device
Continuous Speech Recognition
SRT that predicts whole phrases
Speech Recoginition Technology
Takes human speech and changes it into something that a computer can recognize
Medical Transcription Editor
A vital human link in maintaining accuracy in the medical record
Algorithm
A method for solving problems that uses a finite number of instructions.
Back-end speech recognition
A system in which a doctor’s completed report is sent to a speech recognition engine and a text version is created for the medical transcription editor to edit. The term back-end comes from the part of the process in which the SRT is used (in this case, in the back of the process).
Correlation
A mutual relationship or connection between two or more things. Correlations are found using reasoning skills by making inferences.
Extrapolate
To guess or infer something unknown by using what is known.
Front-end speech recognition
The doctor dictates the report and the speech recognition engine produces the text version in real time. The physician can read, edit, and alter the text at the time of the report’s creation. The term front-end comes from the part of the process in which the SRT is used (in this case, in the front of the process).
Home row
The centrally located keyboard positions for your fingers on a keyboard. The home row can change according to task and often does with different speech recognition programs.
Inference
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Medical speech recognition editor
Also known as medical transcription editor. This career emphasizes the verification, research, and editing of medical records (as opposed to creating them from an audio file, as a medical transcriptionist does).
Natural language processing
A subfield of artificial intelligence and linguistics. It studies the problems of automated generation and understanding of natural human languages. Natural language generation systems convert information from computer databases into normal-sounding human language, and natural language understanding systems convert samples of human language into more formal representations that are easier for computer programs to manipulate.
Reasoning skills
The power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic.