Final Report for Voice Response System Project on Computer Evaluation of Clinical Competence for the National Fund for Medical Education [electronic resource] / Richard B. Friedman and Others.
For the past five years a group of doctors at the University of Wisconsin has been developing a realistic computer-based simulation of the patient-physician encounter. Utilizing the time-shared computers, large memory and high speed logic, they have developed a highly sophisticated program which per...
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| Summary: | For the past five years a group of doctors at the University of Wisconsin has been developing a realistic computer-based simulation of the patient-physician encounter. Utilizing the time-shared computers, large memory and high speed logic, they have developed a highly sophisticated program which permits the physician to work-up and diagnose patients in the in-patient and out-patient environment. This program has been tested in over 1,000 simulated encounters and is currently operational at a number of medical centers around the country. Criteria for standard evaluations have been developed and tested. The main drawback is that the physician must communicate with the computer via a relatively expensive computer terminal. In order to overcome the necessity of using expensive computer terminals they propose to combine their fully operational simulator with a Voice-Response System. Combining these two systems would permit a physician to take a simulated encounter using any standard telephone (touch-tone or dial). The physician would communicate with the computer by dialing in the necessary test request, diagnosis, etc. The computer would communicate with the physician through easily understood verbal responses. This interaction could take place anywhere there is a telephone and literally thousands of encounters would be possible simultaneously. (MV) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED137328. ERIC Note: Report sponsored by the National Fund for the Medical Education. |
| Physical Description: | 31 p. |