US Patent 12080391 Automated electronic patient care record data capture

A patient data charting system for automated data capture by an electronic patient care record (ePCR) generated during a patient encounter with emergency medical services (EMS) includes a local computing device including a processor, and a memory storing an ePCR including ePCR data fields, and a user interface device communicatively coupled to the local computing device and including a microphone and speaker, wherein the microphone may be configured to capture spoken patient encounter information, wherein the processor may be configured to receive the spoken patient encounter information as text information from a speech-to-text conversion application, determine at least one ePCR data field value based on the text information, populate at least one ePCR data field with the at least one ePCR data field value, generate caregiver prompts based on the at least one ePCR data field value, and provide the audible caregiver prompts to the caregiver via the speaker.