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General
What can I do with Amazon Transcribe Medical?
Amazon Transcribe Medical uses advanced machine learning models to accurately transcribe medical speech into text. Transcribe Medical can general text transcripts that can be used to support a variety of use cases, spanning clinical documentation workflow and drug safety monitoring (pharmacovigilance) to subtitling for telemedicine and even contact center analytics in the healthcare and life sciences domains.
What is Amazon Transcribe Medical?
Amazon Transcribe Medical is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add medical speech-to-text capabilities to their applications. Using Amazon Transcribe Medical, you can quickly and accurately transcribe medical dictation and conversational speech into text for a variety of purposes, such as recording physician notes or processing in downstream text analytics to extract meaningful insights.
Which languages does Amazon Transcribe Medical support?
Amazon Transcribe Medical currently supports medical transcription in US English.
Which medical specialties does Amazon Transcribe Medical support?
Amazon Transcribe Medical supports transcription for an expanding list of primary care and specialty care specialties. Visit our documentation for a full list of supported medical specialties.
In which AWS regions is Amazon Transcribe Medical available?
Amazon Transcribe Medical is currently available in US-East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), EU (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Sydney).
Is Amazon Transcribe Medical HIPAA eligible?
Yes.
What else should I know before using the Amazon Transcribe Medical service?
Amazon Transcribe Medical is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. You and your end users are responsible for exercising your and their own discretion, experience, and judgment in determining the correctness, completeness, timeliness, and suitability of any information provided by Amazon Transcribe Medical. You and your end users are solely responsible for any decisions, advice, actions, and/or inactions based on the use of Amazon Transcribe Medical.
Amazon Transcribe Medical may not accurately identify protected health information in all circumstances, and does not meet the requirements for de-identification of protected health information in accordance with HIPAA. You are responsible for reviewing any output provided by Amazon Transcribe Medical to ensure it meets your needs.