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Don't hold your breath. This has been an area of active work by many of us for decades. We have some systems that work reasonably well for a few limited cases but the general case of clinical data entry won't be solved any time soon. It's a genuinely hard problem that those without experience in the domain tend to underestimate.

Doctors have only a few minutes for most patient encounters. They simply have no extra time to do data entry. You can delegate some of that work to clerical staff or allied health but there are limits to what they can do, and they don't work for free either.



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