S-to-T in hospitals (Score 2, Interesting)

I know that one hospital in Norway has been experimenting with/testing speech-to-text software for a while, and reports say it's been very successful! (this supports what was said about speech recognition within a tight context in an earlier comment). I believe the plan is to, at some point, eliminate the need of secretaries transcribing what the doctors dictate, so that ideally the doctors can just speak into a mic and the text automagically appears in the patient's (electronic/digital) journal!

this of course worries secretaries, since they might eventually lose their job/"career". on the other hand it would improve effeciency *a lot*.