Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 Upgrade from Medical
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Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 enables healthcare professionals to complete clinical notes instantly and at a fraction of the cost of manual transcription. Each physician that uses Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 can save tens of thousands of dollars per year! Its never been faster or easier to use, and its amazingly accurate – up to 30% more accurate than the prior release. Use with any Microsoft Office application, or any Windows based Electronic Medical Records solution. Packaged with 14 pre-configured medical specialty vocabularies, and allows you to create other custom vocabularies to maximize recognition accuracy. Includes tools for network deployments, such as support for Citrix thin clients. Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 means lower costs and better patient care!
Package Dimensions : 11.6 x 8.9 x 0.5 inches; 8.8 ounces
Item model number : A789A-RC8-9.0
Date First Available : June 12, 2006
Manufacturer : Nuance Communications, Inc.
ASIN : B000GAQN3M
NaturallySpeaking version 9 brings together the best Nuance technologies to create their most accurate, easiest-to-use, powerful speech recognition software ever. Upgrades from prior versions 7 & 8
The new Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 speech engine is up to 30% more accurate than version 8
Packaged with 14 pre-configured medical specialty vocabularies, and allows you to create other custom vocabularies to maximize recognition accuracy
Includes tools for network deployments, such as support for Citrix thin clients
No script reading required – Get started instantly without having to read any scripts or training text
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Frank Edema –
good, unstable, requires user behavior training
What follows is verbatim from my Dragon NS medical 9 upgrade. Any air as (errors) you see in this dictation R. because of the software. If the errors created by the program are too severe, I will handle (hand) type the corrections in parentheses so you can understand what I am trying to say.I am running the program on a new, powerful laptop with more than adequate memory, a fast processor, and a large hard drive with ample space. I use the program in a very quiet environment. I speak American English with good addiction (diction) and accurate pronunciation, and I have no unusual accident (accent).Let me for (first) say that I have done many things to try to improve accuracy, I have created new user profiles, optimize profiles, run the accuracy was urged (wizards) provided with the program that are supposed to improve accuracy, and I have had the program scan of my written documents on my hard drive which is also supposed to improve accuracy. None of these things have eliminated the errors UC (you see) in this document.I am dictating this review using my version of dried and naturally speaking (…dragon naturally speaking) medical 9 upgrade. I am currently using my medical vocabulary, which makes dictating nonmedical English such as this review somewhat difficult. It would be better and more accurate if I switched to a normal vocabulary. This is a relatively time-consuming task but it yields partial results.When I started using these programs, I noted that many users recommended a high-quality microphone in order to reduce errors. I had been using a 20 doll or (dollar) USB microphone. To make a long story short, a very expensive microphone made no difference whatsoever. I switched back to the chief (cheap)microphone just to be sure and I can tell you from experience that an expensive microphone does not make a difference. I wasted a lot of money on an expensive microphone, USB input for microphone, and microphone support system.I have used drag and (dragon) 4 many years in my medical practice. All of my patient encounters are done using voice dictation. I started out with version 6, inversion 7, then skipped diversion 9. (then version 7, then skipped to version 9) I also used it for numerical entry to input ICD-9 codes and CPT codes. You can see that there are frequent problems and many errors. Entry into his (…numerical entry is ) quite difficult and there are many errors.However, I have been able to reduce the number of errors and make the program passably functional by carefully controlling the vocabulary that I use, speaking extremely clearly, and avoiding certain terms and words that I know to be troublesome.In addition, I have created a lot of macros. These are pre-dictated chunks of packed (text) that the use over and over 4 certain patient evaluations and certain patient findings that I see frequently. If you have a lot of good macro as (macros), and used them, this program will save U. a lot of time. Naturally, there will be no errors in her macro is (no errors in your macros).My major problem with this software is a (its) stability. The software (i can’t say the word program, since it triggers an unwanted behavior I can’t turn off) becomes unstable if it remains open and running on your computer, even if you are not using it. For example, if I do not close the program on Friday and reopened the program on Monday, often it will not function on Monday morning at all. This forces me to close the program and reopened the program, which in a busy medical office is wasted time I could seriously do without. Sometimes the Program Seems to Be closed but there is an orphan instance of the program running that I need to stop using windows task manager before I can get the program running again.In the previous paragraph U. saw the unusual capitalize every word behavior that sometimes pops up with his program.Finally, I would like to be able to eliminate all of the silly short cuts that the software performs without asking. Certain words trigger unwanted behavior because they happened to be the name of short cuts that I have not figured out how external (to turn off). Other words open man use (menus) or save files, or switch programs, and I do not want to use the short cuts, I want to use the words that trigger these short cuts.I could go on and on, but to some up, (…to sum up) I have learned to live with the program and its use he perceives (idiosyncrasies). However, this type of program has a long way to go before it is truly error free voice dictation.
J. T. Stasiak –
version 9.5 works OK under windows Vista
I am dictating this description using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.5 medical edition under windows Vista. The voice recognition for advanced medical terminology is generally outstanding: For example: “Angiofibroplastic hyperplasia,” “bone morphogenic proteins,” “bipolar hip arthroplasty,” “percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.” Most of the trouble comes with simple words such as homonyms: “C.”, “See” and “sea”. I have used this product on my office computer, a Dell desktop with 500 MB of RAM and two GHz single core CPU running windows XP,and the performance was intolerable until the RAM was upgraded to 2 GB. You have the ability to adjust the trade-off between speed and accuracy. For medical applications, accuracy is of paramount importance and setting the program for maximum accuracy slows it down considerably.For those of you upgrading from previous versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the version 9.5 medical upgrade allows you to upgrade from versions 7 or 8 “medical” or “professional”, but not medical versions prior to version 7 nor the “standard” or “preferred” editions of any previous version. Warning: For the version 9.5 medical upgrade to install over version 7, version 7 must be physically installed on your hard drive. The install program will not recognize the version 7 medical CD inserted into your CD drive as a qualified upgrade product. It will, however, recognize the version 8 medical CD as a qualified upgrade product.Overall, this is an excellent product, but not as good as a medical transcriptionist. You still have to do a fair amount of correction to your dictation, which takes a substantial amount of time. For me, it is still faster than typing. For those of you who can type well, this product may be less attractive. The voice recognition is far superior to the native windows Vista voice recognition program.Addendum: After further evaluation, I have to downgrade the rating of this product to 2.5 stars. The amount of correction required (<1-2%) seems low, but is enough to nullify any gain in productivity. What this product does is still amazing, but it can't do it as well as a good transcriptionist. In a litiginous world where you are held accountable for your notes and you don't have time to review everything, this is an important consideration.
L. D. Mitchell –
Very good recognition
I have been progressively upgrading this program starting with version 2. this was yet another improvement in recognition and accuracy. I continue to be a strong advocate for Naturally Speaking. If you are a doctor and want to save on transcription, this is a very good option. It is well worth the cost and quickly pays for itself.