Which of the following has the potential to eliminate the need for medical assistants to transcribe physicians' notes? 

A. Speech recognition technology
B. Telemedicine
C. CD-R technology
D. Modulator-demodulator
E. Optical character recognition

A. Speech recognition technology
As speech recognition technology becomes more advanced, more accurate, and less expensive, it has the potential to virtually eliminate the need for medical assistants to transcribe physicians' notes.