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15percent (upper figure)
The 2024 nursing review concludes that speech recognition, especially when combined with artificial intelligence, can speed up documentation by up to 15 percent.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Findings suggest SRT, particularly when integrated with artificial intelligence can speed up documentation by up to 15%.”
Speech Recognition Technology for Nursing Charting: A Literature Review, Sally Newton-Mason et al., Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2024, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.3233/SHTI240301)- What it measures
- SRT is the review's abbreviation for speech recognition technology. The figure is the upper end of what the reviewed studies found.
- What it does not show
- An upper figure, not an average. The review also says real-world implementation and existing EHR workflows still pose problems.