With Dragon Medical 10, your medical facility has several advantages:

20% more accurate than Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9, which means clinicians will save time dictating and spend little or no time correcting dictation.

Instant response times, saving clinicians valuable time in their day—no more waiting for transcribed reports or typing into the EHR.

Dictate anywhere in the EHR. Dragon Medical allows clinicians to dictate anywhere in an EHR system, while reviewing Lab Tests, Patient History, or Current Medications. Clinicians no longer have to click back and forth between information they’re reviewing and the dictation window. They dictate, while reviewing information in Hidden Mode, which allows the physician to place the dictation directly where he or she wishes.

Saves valuable time by eliminating the wait time for transcription and less time documenting care in an EHR

Clinicians receive a host of key advantages with Dragon Medical 10 compared to Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 or Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 non-medical solutions:

Spend more time with patients. Increased accuracy means fewer errors to correct, which lets clinicians spend more time with patients, improving both quality of care and patient satisfaction.

Dictate in their own words. Dragon Medical’s free-text dictation capability supports more detailed History of Present illness, more flexible Review of Systems, and more descriptive Assessment and Plan—the “medical decision-making” aspects of the note—which give referring clinicians and ancillary providers a clearer and more detailed patient assessment and prognosis.

Medical information at their finger tips. Dragon Medical offers multiple voice shortcuts for searching medical information on the web. Physicians can now search medical data via a single command on WebMD®, UpToDate®, PubMedTM and iCD9. These commands can be said at any time without even having an internet browser open. These commands combine multiple clicks into one fast command for the busy physician. Simply say “Search UpToDate for Wellbutrin contradications” and Dragon Medical and UpToDate take you there.

Secure patient information. Only Dragon Medical supports HiPAA compliance guidelines to protect patient security and confidentiality.

Improve clinician satisfaction. Clinicians who use Dragon Medical report that it significantly improves their enjoyment of practicing medicine. This allows users to utilize their time more effectively, which in turn improves the user’s quality of life, like getting home in time for dinner!

Providers enjoy significant cost reductions when they move from typing, handwriting or transcription —or upgrade to Dragon Medical 10 from previous medical versions or non-medical solutions:

Reduce the cost of documentation. Eliminate transcription by speech-enabling the EHR, freeing up resources to focus more on patients to help practice efficiency. Healthcare organizations that are using Dragon Medical 10 today are significantly lowering their transcription costs by hundreds of thousands—or even millions of dollars—annually.

Support higher quality and more complete documentation. Using Dragon Medical results in higher levels of reimbursement than notes built by “point and click” EHR templates alone.

Reduce denials. More complete, accurate documentation improves coding effectiveness and provides richer detail per patient, giving physicians greater confidence to code at higher levels than with an EHR system alone.

Increase practice volume. Faster, more accurate response reduces time spent on documentation, allowing clinicians to see more patients and increase practice revenue and profitability.

Dragon Medical is by far the #1 speech recognition solution in healthcare today. Dragon Medical technology is used by over 100,000 clinicians in the U.S. to document clinical records and dictate correspondence, making it the most widely used speech recognition solution for providers. Clinicians use it with EHR systems such as AllscriptsTM, Epic®, GE®, NextGen®, Cerner®, eClinicalWorks®, Eclipsys® and dozens more Windows®-based EHR software.

Based on laboratory testing, Dragon Medical is over 38% more accurate than Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional or Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred in clinical settings.

Even rarely used medical terms appear in Dragon Medical the first time clinicians say them. No need to add or train words with Dragon Medical.

Whether the physician’s country of origin is India, China, Pakistan, England, the U.S., or Australia, Dragon Medical recognizes his or her speech patterns—it’s heard them before.

Highly-Accurate Medical Speech Recognition for Busy Clinicians Provides Better Care with Lower Cost, Greater Revenue

Specialty-Specific Vocabularies: High “Out-of-the-Box” Accuracy

Dragon Medical: Over 38% More Accurate than Dragon Professional in Clinical Use

What is the practical impact of this 38% difference in Word Error Rate Reduction for physicians dictating with Dragon non-medical versus Dragon Medical?

For a clinician with 98% accuracy dictating 10,000 words per day (40 reports each containing 250 words – 20 lines per report), a 40% increase means that their will be 80 more errors dictating with a non-medical version compared to a medical version.

If each error takes an additional 15 seconds for a physician to review and correct, a clinician will have added 20 minutes – or have lost 2 patients – each day.

Simply having clinicians train and add hundreds of medical terms to Dragon will not adequately raise its accuracy for use in medical settings. Without the additional benefit of Dragon Medical’s language model, which carries the knowledge of the relative frequency of use of both individual words and phrases, a non-medical speech recognizer will not have the added benefit of recognizing the context of the words which provides that additional boost in accuracy. Were “cerebral embolism” and not just “embolism” spoken by a clinician, Dragon Medical is far more likely to recognize the phrase than Dragon Professional because it would recognize the context in which ‘embolism’ was spoken.

Because the language models take into account not only the frequency of words but the frequency of multi-word phrases, Dragon Medical is significantly more accurate for medical dictation. In fact, there are thousands of similar-sounding medical and non-medical single words and multi-word phrases which Dragon Professional is likely to misunderstand – resulting in precious, unnecessary time needed to review and correct dictation. Other examples of phrases having far better recognition by Dragon Medical are below.

Phrases which Dragon Medical Normally Recognizes...	... May Be Heard Differently by Dragon Professional
Neck is supple with no adenopathy.	Neck as supple with no odyssey.
Heart: Regular rate and rhythm without murmur, rub or gallop	Hart: regular rate rhythm without murmur, Robert Gala.
Patient is a 42-year-old female, gravida 2, para 1.	Patient is a 42-year-old female, granted in two, Parra won.
Patient states he has had dull substernal chest pain associated with diaphoresis.	Patient stays his head sub startle chest pain associated with dire phrases.
Medications include dicloxacillin and Bactrim.	Medications include a caucus alone back from.
Medications: Cardizem CM 120 mg one p.o. q. day.	Medications: cars and Sam 120 mg once PO QT.
BUN and creatinine were normal	The UN and creatinine were normal.
He has had no edema, orthopnia, or PND	He’s had no edema, or stopping, or PNG.

Clinicians using higher-accuracy speech recognition will experience the same efficiencies as gaining the services of a more accurate transcriptionist – more time on patient care, less time on documentation.

For a clinician seeing 40 patients a day, 1 additional speech recognition error per patient can cost another 30- 45 seconds of review and correction time – meaning a doctor will see at least 1-2 less patients per day, which has a significant impact on practice workflow and revenue.

The economic impact of seeing 2 fewer patients a day is significant – thousands of dollars a year in a private practice setting, depending upon reimbursement rates, specialty, and acuity levels.

Clearly, it’s penny-wise and pound-foolish to try saving a few hundred dollars purchasing Dragon Professional —the potential negative impact on a medical practice is 20 times any up-front savings gained at purchase in the first year of use alone.

Dragon Medical offers a series of capabilities specially designed for the healthcare environment. It offers productivity and quality enhancements which are not found in non-medical versions of Dragon. Therefore, purchasing Dragon Professional and adding a third-party medical vocabulary will not provide the same user experience, support for compliance-related regulations, or be backed by the knowledge that it’s used by thousands of other clinicians across a broad range of specialties and provider settings.

	Medical Enterprise	Medical	Medical Small Practice
Product Features
Supports HiPAA regulations	v	v	v
Dictate in any Windows based	v	v	v
Hidden Mode dictation for EMR	v	v
Macro’s for navigation	v	v	v	v
Standard Texts	v	v	v	v
DragonTemplates	v	v		v
Nuance end-user technical support	v
Manage medical abbreviations	v	v	v
integrates with transcription	v
Correctionist support	v	v
Business Features
Used by 80,000+ physicians	v	v	v
Named “Best in KLAS*” speech recognition	v	v
Used by hundreds of Epic® users	v	v
Used by hundreds of Allscripts®	v	v
Used by hundreds of Centricity®	v	v

Recommended Specifications

Intel® Pentium®/2.4 GHz processor (1.8 GHz dual core processor) or equivalent AMD processor. Faster processors will yield faster performance (SSE2 instruction set required).

2 GB RAM; 4 GB RAM for Windows 7, 64-bit

Free hard disk space: 2.5 GB

L2 Cache: 1 MB

Minimum Specifications:

Intel® Pentium4® or later or AMD Athlon 64 1 GHz or later. Faster processors will yield faster performance (SSE2 instruction set required).

512 MB RAM; 1 GB RAM for Windows Vista™; 2GB RAM for Windows 7, 32-bit and 64-bit

Free hard disk space: 1 GB; 2 GB for localized non-English versions

L2 Cache: 512 KB

Supported Operating Systems:
-Windows Server 2000
-Windows Server 2003
-Windows XP, SP2 and SP3, 32-bit
-Windows 2000, SP4
-Windows Vista™ SP1 and SP2, 32-bit, 64-bit
-Windows 7, 32-bit and 64-bit

DVD-ROM drive (required for installation)

Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6 or higher (free download available at www.microsoft.com)

For Bluetooth® wireless microphone support, please visit http://support.nuance.com/compatibility/

A web connection is required for activation

During the install process the software checks to make sure your system meets these minimum requirements. If you do not meet the requirements, the software will not be installed.