Topic Update: 10-31-2024

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Accuracy - General

  • New Drugs/Devices Support- Corpus and dictionary support for new drugs and medical devices approved by the FDA in August 2024 have been added. (B-17720)

  • Corrections added to Topics- Corrected transcripts that were submitted in August 2024 have been added to their corresponding Topic's corpus. New words found in these corrections have been added to the dictionary. (B-17719)

  • Phone Number Formatting: Fixed an issue where phone numbers spoken with the words "dash" or "hyphen" between the area code, prefix, and last four digits were returning with incorrect formatting, such as extra spaces between digits. (D-13576)

  • Single Letter Returning Instead of Full Word- We've reduced the occurrence of letter homonyms (e.g., "R" for "are," "C" for "see," and "N" for "in") being returned in place of their full-word equivalents. This improvement involved cleaning up the corpus and enhancing support for correct phrase detection. This work is part of our ongoing efforts, and we will continue to make further enhancements. (D-13571)

  • Fixed Typo in " 'Please’- Corrected an issue where 'pleas' occasionally returned instead of 'please.' " (D-13603)

  • Consistent Word Formatting – Previously, certain words were inconsistently formatted, sometimes returning hyphenated, as two separate words, or as a single word. Now, the following words will always return as single, unhyphenated words. With this consistency in place, substitutions can be applied as needed to reintroduce hyphens or spaces. (B-17680)

    Affected Words by Prefix:

    anti: convulsant, convulsants, emetic, emetics, inflammatory, melanoma, platelet, psychotic, psychotics, reflux, seizure, spasm, spasmodic, spasmodics, union, vitamin

    bi: articular, focal, monthly, nasal, specific

    co: active, alcoholic, morbidities, operative, treat, treatment, treatments

    extra: abdominal, articular, cardiac, cranial, focal, nasal, ocular, oral, uterine

    hemi: paresis, thyroid, thyroidectomy

    hyper: active, distended, focal, inflate, inflated, inflating, inflation, inflationary, inflations, keratosis, keratotic, nasal, oral, spasmodic, tonicity, vascular, vascularity, vascularization, volia

    intra: abdominal, articular, aural, cardiac, cranial, ischemic, nasal, ocular, oral, orally, specific, uterine

    micro: injury, perforated, traumatic

    mid: abdominal, calf, cervical, chest, foot, footprint, lateral, nasal, phalanx, shaft, small, sole, stance, tarsal, thoracic, thoracics, thyroid, upper

    multi: articular, fibroid, focal, focality, focally, level, leveled, levels, load, vitamin, wrapped

    non: abdominal, active, alcoholic, articular, athletic, blood, bloody, calcified, cardiac, communicative, compliance, compliant, congruent, contributory, diabetic, displaced, displacement, distended, edematous, erythematous, exertional, fasting, fatty, fluctuant, gynecological, healing, hyperpigmented, indurated, inflammatory, injury, ischemic, keratinized, keratinizing, keratosis, keratotic, load, melanoma, obstructed, obstructing, obstruction, obstructive, operative, oral, pain, painful, painfully, palpable, pitting, pneumatic, pneumotized, pneumatization, pneumatized, product, production, productive, productively, radiating, resectable, resected, resistive, response, responses, responsibility, responsible, responsive, responsiveness, sedating, sensible, smoker, specific, sweetened, tender, thrombosed, toxic, traumatic, union, vitamin

    over: active, compliance, compliant, distended, load, loads, sedating, wrapped

    para: cardiac, cranial, keratosis, keratotic, nasal, operative, oral, thyroid, thyroidal, thyroidea, thyroidectomies, thyroidectomy, thyroidism, thyroidoma, thyroids, uterine

    post: abdominal, cardiac, inflammatory, injury, ischemic, menopausal, nasal, ocular, operative, operatively, oral, perforated, seizure, traumatic, tussive, uterine, vaccination

    pre: active, aggravated, cardiac, diabetes, diabetic, exam, examination, fasting, hypertensive, injury, ischemic, load, loads, menopausal, molar, molars, nasal, operative, oral, placed, placement, placental, prescapular, prescapulars, seizure, sweetened, tender, toxic, traumatic, wrapped

    pro: active, inflammatory, union

    re: aggravated, exam, examination, examinations, examine, examined, examines, examining, healing, injure, injured, injures, injuries, injuring, injury, load, loads, operative, sole, tear, tearing, tears, tender, thrombosed, union, wrapped

    semi: active, compliant

    sub: abdominal, arterial, articular, chondral, chondrally, cranial, inflammatory, nasal, ocular, toxic

    tri: focal, nasal

    un: responded, responding, response, responsible, responsive, responsively, responsiveness, responsivity

Accuracy - Pathology

  • Additional Word Support- The following words were not consistently returning correctly, so additional support has been added for them. (B-17789)

    - spirochete

    - EpCAM

    - Kamino bodies

    - necroulcerative

    - lichen sclerosus

    - prebullous

    - atopic

    - planopilaris

    - pilar


  • Removal of "Hymlek" from Dictionary- The non-word "Hymlek" has been removed from the dictionary and will no longer appear in results. (B-17789)


  • Dermatology Diagnostic Codes- Added support for 829 new dermatology diagnostic codes. Below are a few examples of the newly supported codes: (B-17837)

    - Squamous acanthoma
    - Acrochordon
    - Atypical fibroxanthoma
    - Atypical sebaceous tumor
    - Scrotal calcinosis
    - Cellular blue nevus
    - Cylindroma
    - Epidermoid cyst
    - Pityriasis rubra pilaris
    - Residual melanoma
    - Vitilig


  • Support for Decimal Numbers Starting with 1- Enhanced support has been added for decimal numbers that start with "1" (e.g., "1.5", "1.2"). These numbers now return correctly. (D-13591)

Accuracy - Radiology

  • Additional Corpus Added- More corpus material was added to the Radiology topic. All unknown words in the new corpus were added to the dictionary. (B-17734)

  • Spinal Markers and Names- Enhanced the precision of spinal marker range returns including support for spinal markers C8 and L6. Resolved an issue with proper names returning when not spoken.(D-13575)

  • Additional Word Support- The following words were not consistently returning correctly, so additional support has been added for them. (B-17752)

    - Murphy's sign
    - calyx
    - ATEC
    - multifrequency
    - pneumatization
    - antecubital
    - hallucis
    - mpMR
    - mpMRI
    - mCi (millicuries)
    - pre-ischial

  • Removed Word Support- Support for the following misspelled words has been removed to prevent incorrect returns. (B-17752)

    - Ninan

    - hepatopedal
    - halluces
    - anticubital
    - pneumotization