a computer program product , for performing data determination from medical record transcriptions , resides on a computer - readable medium and includes computer - readable instructions for causing a computer to obtain medical transcription of a dictation , the dictation being from medical personnel and concerning a patient , analyze the transcription for an indicating phrase associated with a type of data desired to be determined from the transcription , the type of desired data being relevant to medical records , determine whether data indicated by text disposed proximately to the indicating phrase is of the desired type , and store an indication of the data if the data is of the desired type .