The software automatically detects hardware resources and sets up the recommended configuration. Dragon Medical Practice Edition 4 is over 20% more accurate ‘out of the box’ than the previous version.ĭragon Medical Practice Edition 4 runs on a variety of hardware, from small netbooks to high-powered servers. Turns your voice into text with up to 99% accuracy. Overall, Dragon Medical solutions dramatically reduce the time clinicians spend documenting care-saving 30 minutes or more a day, according to a number of studies. Additionally, the Dragon Medical Template Library-a library of more than two dozen macros for standard notes and an extensive list of ‘medical normals’ by body system-facilitates rapid note creation. Dragon Medical Practice Edition 4 supports HIPAA patient confidentiality guidelines, a critical requirement for any practice concerned with patient confidentiality.Ĭlinicians also save additional time by using customized macros to enter frequently-dictated text with a single voice command. It allows clinicians to dictate in their own words, generating ‘once and done’ documentation, which they can then review.ĭragon Medical Practice Edition 4 lets clinicians use a narrative format to dictate the elements of a patient encounter where clinicians need to document care in their own words, including the History of Present Illness, Review of Systems, Physical Examination, and Assessment and Plan.
Clinicians using Dragon Medical solutions have experienced substantially greater satisfaction than clinicians who use the EHR without Dragon Medical.Īvailable only for practices of 24 physicians or less, Dragon Medical Practice Edition 4 is 99% accurate ‘out of the box’ and includes medical vocabularies covering more than 90 medical specialty and subspecialty vocabularies. Using Dragon Medical Practice Edition 4 ensures clinicians document care more completely and ‘in their own words’. Overall however, Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 Premium is a great speech dictation and voice command program.ĬPU: 1.8GHz Intel dual core processor or equivalent Processor cache: 2MB Hard drive space: 2.The latest member of the Dragon Medical family, it’s designed and priced especially for smaller practices to help clinicians accelerate adoption of their chosen EHR. Nuance has improved user access to verbal commands in this new version, but there's still a lot of room for even more improvement. Verdictĭragon Naturally Speaking 11 Premium has better speech recognition accuracy than its predecessor, version 10. Nuance needs to perfect a more accessible help system for users who want to discover the more complex application control voice commands, though. It is definitely the best version of the software we have seen yet due to its good out-of-the-box accuracy and its straightforward configuration. Overall, we were impressed with Dragon Naturally Speaking 11 Premium. If, like us, you have a lot of content in that folder produced by other people, it might be worth skipping that part of the process as we did.
How long that takes will vary depending on in the size of your My Documents folder. With that completed, you can let the software scan your My Documents folder so it can analyse your writing style and also pick up commonly typed bits of information such as the email addresses you use, to help it improve the accuracy of its speech recognition. The setup process takes under a quarter of an hour. Nuance maintains a non-comprehensive list of headsets it has tested for compatibility. It's perfectly serviceable, but you should be able to use any existing headsets that you may already have. It's the headset we used to test the software with. It's a fairly low end but perfectly acceptable over-the-head, adjustable headset with a hinged microphone. Naturally Speaking 11 Premium is available bundled with a wired headset. You also need to calbrate your headset during setup.