Dragon Medical Practice Edition
Speech Recognition for Medical Providers
Once purely the realm of science fiction, computerized speech recognition is now a mature technology enhancing productivity wherever there is a need for detailed documentation. Nowhere is the benefit of speech recognition technology more dramatically affecting workflow and enhancing efficiency than in the medical arena. In both the inpatient and outpatient setting, physicians are finding this technology the perfect bridge between the necessity of electronic record keeping and need to preserve the breadth of detail in the clinical documentation.
What can you expect when converting to use of Speech Recognition? These are some of the recognized results:
- More thorough and accurate documentation
- More rapid turn-around of documentation
- Cost savings compared with paid transcription
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Dragon Medical Practice Edition: the Details
 On September 1st Nuance began shipping the updated version of their medical speech recognition software - now to be called the "Medical Practice Edition". Speech recognition Solutions has been testing a pre-production version of the software during the last month and considers this to be a significant upgrade. Now that we can talk about it, we share some thoughts about this long-awaited product.
Highlights:
- The Medical Practice Edition takes advantage of version 11 functionality and bolsters accuracy 15% beyond that of Dragon Medical 10
- It includes an entirely new user interface - similar to that seen in other version 11 products - and provides improvement in the ease of use
- Overall functionality is very similar to version 10.1
- Support for a Pakistani English accent has been introduced
- The number of installs per license has been reduced to 2
- Price is unchanged
- Available only for practices of 24 physicians or less
- It includes a series of enhancements compared with version 10:
- 15% improvement in accuracy
- More rapid recognition speed
- Improved playback functionality
- Reduced training time for digital recorders and ability to use .dss and .ds2 files
- Addition of Dragon sidebar
- Improved tutorials
Features Comparison:
For this we recommend that you open the Nuance features comparison guide to see the full document. CLICK HERE TO OPEN. You will see that the most important differences are related to speed, accuracy and user interface.
Under the Hood Review:
We have tested the Medical Practice Edition in the real-life environment of academic medical center in New England, where the hustle and bustle (and noise) truly put it to the test. We have used it with a variety of microphones, including the PowerMic II, the Sennheiser ME3, and the SpeechMic III. There are our preliminary thoughts:
- Overall system requirements are similar to Dragon 10 and 10.1
- Set-up and installation is straightforward. If you are upgrading an existing installation, this is a "smart install" and will easily upgrade your existing user files, including acoustic model, commands, and vocabulary for use in the new version. On a fast computer, an entire clean (new) installation took about 23 minutes, start to finish, not including creation of the first user file.
- Creating a user profile is slightly different in that the initial sound level and quality check no longer provides a quantitative signal/noise ration (simply a pass/fail)
- We are impressed with the accuracy of this edition. In fact, while we are not recommending it, we set up a profile using the on-board microphone on a laptop and in a quiet setting actually found the accuracy was quite high. When used with our current favorites (Sennheiser ME3 combo and Dictaphone PowerMic II) we see outstanding results.
- We believe that the more straightforward new user set-up, improved tutorials, and availability of the "sidebar" will accelerate the comfort and efficiency of the user new to speech recognition.
To see some screen shots from the Medical Practice Edition, please click here.
Why the medical version of Dragon?
If you are currently using the the Premium or Professional version of Dragon 10 or 11, you will be in a for a surprise when you move to the Medical Practice Edition. The major differences? Here's a short list:
- 60 medical specialty vocabularies
- Extensive medical formatting options
- Inclusion of "Dragon templates" for easy navigation and inclusion of variable text
- Integration with PowerMic II
- Built in "medical normal" and note template commands
- Availability of "hidden mode"
System Requirements:
- CPU: minimum 1 GHz Intel® Pentium® or equivalent AMD processor. 2.4 GHz Intel Dual Core or equivalent AMD processor. (IMPORTANT: SSE2 instruction set required)
- Processor Cache: 2 MB
- Free hard disk space: 5 GB
- RAM: 2 GB RAM for XP and Vista, and 4 GB for Windows 7 and Server 2003/2008 64-bit
- Supported Operating Systems:
- Microsoft Windows 7, 32-bit and 64-bit
- Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, 32-bit and 64-bit
- Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, 32-bit only
- Windows Server 2003 and 2008, SP1, SP2 and R2, 32-bit and 64-bit
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or higher (free download at www.microsoft.com)
- Creative® Labs Sound Blaster® 16 or equivalent sound card supporting 16-bit recording
- DVD-ROM drive required for installation
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Pricing and Availability
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Selecting the Right Electronic Medical Record
 Are you contemplating going electronic? If you haven't done so already, you should seriously consider the many advantages of the transition away from paper and simple record databases to a fully-functioning electronic health record.
In order to assist you in your search for an EHR, Speech Recognition Solutions has partnered with EHRConsultant, an established leader in the field, to provide you a way to take the important first step. EHRConsultant is not an EHR, but a company who knows the available products and with the expertise to guide you in the decision-making process.
Learn more about selecting an Electronic Health Record ....
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