Inside STAT: 5 burning questions about deploying voice recognition technology in health care 

Nearly a quarter of U.S. households have a device with a built-in voice assistant — like Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa — and even health care is getting in on the trend. Physicians are increasingly using voice recognition technology to help with transcribing notes. And many companies are developing software that could help doctors with other tasks such as filling out electronic health records using speech recognition software. But before such technology can become a clinical reality, there are still several outstanding questions, including whether it’s accurate enough to be useful and whether privacy concerns have been sufficiently addressed. Beyond that, are patients even receptive to the use of such software? STAT’s Ruth Hailu looks into these questions — and shares answers from experts — here.