Nuance Communications Dragon Medical 10 Software (http://nuance.com) is a medical voice recognition system that recognizes dictation nearly twice as fast as its previous release. This newest version has ten new medical vocabularies, and has improved integration with EMR systems. A physician can create medical documents, emails and dictate directly into an EMR system using this voice recognition software.
Dragon Medical 10 which was just released, and has updated and enhanced features which include regional accent support and customizable commands, including voice shortcuts and Dragon templates. This software is an all-in-one system which enables physicians to use voice commands to navigate, dictate progress notes, e-prescribe medications and access test results.
In Use
With the fast speech recognition capabilities, clinicians are able to provide more detailed notes in less time. Dragon Medical allows critical patient documentation, which is available immediately for other care providers to access electronically. The new version supports more than 75 medical specialties, including family medicine, internal medicine, orthopedics and cardiology with specific medical speech recognition vocabularies.
The screens and menus are designed to be user friendly. When using this speech recognition software you can easily navigate the entire system with voice commands. The Dragon Medical 10 has new macro capabilities to create customized voice shortcuts for common phrases or larger blocks of text that can include embedded fields.
It has multiple user capability, can be installed on multiple computers, and also can be used over a network. You do need a license for each user. The software comes in a variety of languages including; Australian English, Dutch, French and German.
Technology employed
The software is ready to use after being installed. Most users can install the software themselves, and after a brief training session, Dragon Medical 10 adapts to each user’s speech. It includes a complete set of onscreen tutorials.
This software is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, and Vista. It is also compatible with Windows Server 2000 and 2003 and Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 4 or 4.5. It is compatible with Citrix or Windows based EMR systems, including, but not limited to, Allscripts, Epic, NextGen, Meditech and Eclipsys.
Ease of use, configuration, and deployment
Dragon Medical 10 is easy to install and configure and can be deployed on a single workstation, hand held device or a network. There are different versions available, and it is designed and well suited for clinical settings due to the fact it has direct dictation into EMR’s and has medical version-only capabilities.
Recap
Dragon Medical 10 is an innovative solution to eliminating all of the typing and mouse clicks that can make EMRs time consuming and cumbersome to use. The speech-driven macros allow you to navigate through the entire EMR system. This software can help reduce transcriptions cost while improving productivity which can lead to increases in reimbursements.
The Dragon Medical 10 pricing starts at $1,599. There are different versions available including Medical Small Practice, Medical and Medical Enterprise and you can choose between standard, preferred and professional. There are additional costs for user licenses, and Nuance can provide onsite training for an additional fee.
Advantages
- User Friendly and well design
- Reduces time
- Voice shortcuts and templates
- Hands free navigation
- Additional user licenses and on-site training can boost the cost of the system
Dragon Medical 10 is easily installed, very well designed and a valuable timesaving solution for physicians and clinicians. Dragon Medical 10 has added new macro capabilities to create customized voice shortcuts which make it even easier and faster to use this great time-saving voice recognition software. I would highly recommend this software.
