ASR (automatic speech recognition) is the technology that is mostly used in the translation company and is rolling out to the clinic sector for use by the doctors as they want to do the dictation work to both patients and nurses. These are nothing but virtual scribes and when you record the transcription of the interaction of the doctor with the patient, the visits of the doctor can be automated through a speech recognition system. And there is no need to pile up documents as it may get tedious.
Medical transcription with the help of ASR aids in updating EHR to automate medical charts and also marking appointments to set up doctor referrals. Voice recognition came into existence in the 1950s. However, it came in use only in the last few decades especially during the debut of voice search by Google and Siri by Apple.