The IBM Open Collaborative Research (OCR) program encourages computer scientists to develop open-source code that will improve the quality of software applications for industry, government and community-based organizations.
Listen to Kathy McKeown and Steven Feiner, computer scientists at Columbia University, talk about their efforts to develop a display-and-dialogue system that will let healthcare providers create complete patient notes. No truly efficient system for note-taking yet exists.
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Producer: Barbara Finkelstein, IBM Corporation
Music: Todd Rice. Copyright 1999
Last updated October 18, 2007