On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Scott Grizzard wrote:
> I like xournal, but will it "read" the writing so users can search it?
>
> Handwriting recognition has always been one of those features that is
> "five years off", but it is such a killer app for these doctors that
> having it, even if the doctor had to go back and edit corrections later,
> would be a game-changer for them.
>
> The big problem with all of these emr systems is it takes tasks that
> doctors have been offloading to lesser-paid staff and makes the doctor
> deal with them, making doctors less productive. If you could store
> patient notes as ink, and then let a doctor's assistant go back through
> them and correct an automated "initial rendering", you have gone a long
> way towards making EMR systems "productivity enhancing" for doctors.
AIYI handwriting recognition is much easier when the computer can get x-y-t
information, rather than just x-y. Maybe the OP could restructure the
workflow so the writing happens on a graphic (Wacom-style) tablet or
something like that? That may give you pen pressure too, which might be
useful.
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