You are probably hearing about cloud-based medical speech recognition software. This works very similarly to the speech recognition used for creating text messages and emails on your Android smartphone or iPhone. There are a number of features that distinguish all cloud-based MSRT from computer-installed software (such as Dragon Medical Practice Edition-4). Cloud-based medical speech recognition [...]
When documenting a patient encounter, it is essential to record the “nuance” of that particular patient’s history, your findings, and the care that you provided. Every patient is unique, and the “click notes” functionality in today’s EHRs is simply not capable of recording that kind of detail. You don’t want the last 10 headache patients [...]
This article is intended to refresh some key concepts since you completed your Dragon Medical Training. SELECT is Dragon’s MOST important command. We are all in the habit of reaching for our mouse to delete an incorrect word, then typing the correction. Two problems with this: It wastes time Dragon doesn’t “learn” from these corrections If [...]
Wayne Kaniewski, MD This article is intended to refresh some key concepts since you completed your Dragon Medical Training. For clinicians who were accustomed to dictating to a human transcriptionist in the past, you discovered quickly that you cannot dictate at “warp speed” when using medical speech recognition technologies (MSRT). Q: Must I dictate very [...]