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Dragon Med 10
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As a long-time medical user of Dragon dictation systems I can say with authority that Dragon dictation software is still far from perfect. With past versions, dictating numbers is particularly troublesome, and accuracy is still far from ideal, even basic words such as "thigh" seem to baffle the program. I have to shut the software down and restart it every day, which is a serious annoyance. The software continues to be somewhat unstable, voice files balloon to gargantuan size and new voice profiles must be created, and Dragon suffers from compatibility issues with some types of software. And now to make their beleaguered users even more upset, Nuance is charging a huge, unnecessary premium for the new version of the medical program. I am very sorry that IBM gave up on their voice recognition software, because Nuance has no competition in this field. If there was real competition, we'd see dramatic changes.I had a previous version (6, 7 and 9) of Dragon Medical, which... |
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Our 8 person internal medicine practice dumped our transcription service and went to this on the rave reviews of one member of the group. The problem, as always, is reasonable sound recognition ability but not actually WORD or language recognition.So, (or sew), saying "225" FREQUENTLY can yield "2-5", "2 to 5", and do (dew) so repeatedly. It claims to learn from your corrections, but I (eye) haven't been impressed. At least 25% of notes have hidden errors where (wear) (we're) a word that makes no sense whatsoever will be heard by the program and inserted.Just today,"I've already discussed" was transcribed as "Arty discussed.""He began feeling better" came out as "Ejection feeling better""Doubt that this" came out as "Gout that this""His" instead of "Has" and random "He" vs "she" insertions in notes.H1N1 is "h one and one""problems" is "proms"The problem with these errors is that a cursory glance over the note... |
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Not that you can easily tell from the Nuance website description, but The small office version does not include the medical templates (namely the ability to add variable fields to an otherwise pre-written note and "tab" to the next input area by saying "next field"). This is a simple macro that you can build yourself into the DNS commands, but you'll have to pay another $400.00 to have it pre-installed with the full version. There's a book called "Scripting for Dragon Naturally Speaking 10" that explains how to write the macro yourself ([...]), but it still isn't simple. The ability to use pre-written templates is very useful. Also, the small office version doesn't support dictating into a Citrix EMR system directly (you can still cut and paste). The criticism that it still garbles a lot of common English is valid, but my peers who have been working with it seem to agree that putting early effort into training it/correcting errors makes it much more accurate and useful. Tech... |
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