Recognizing Voices in the Trickiest Terrain: The Battlefield

It's not here yet, but the United States military has plans to perfect technology that would enable combat medics to dictate treatment notes for casualties on the battlefield – and have those end up as structured data and narrative information in fighters' electronic medical records.

The military has long struggled to provide end-to-end electronic documentation of casualties' treatments from the battlefield to battalion aid stations and so on through multiple levels of care until the fighter is evacuated to a hospital.

• Recognizing Voices in the Trickiest Terrain: The Battlefield