Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Medical

by Nuance Communications, Inc.

Product Features

• Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 installs quickly--no need to read scripts before dictating into your PC
• Deploy Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 on a Citrix server so dictation can be available from Citrix thin-clients throughout your organization
• Includes a full library of 14 medical specialty vocabularies covering over 60 subspecialties, including: cardiology, emergency, general medicine, and many more
• Works with any Nuance-certified Bluetooth wireless microphones, allowing wireless dictation
• Easily manage user profiles, vocabularies and installations of Dragon NaturallySpeaking over a network

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000YQ8AZW
• Item model number: A709A-X01-9.0
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,906 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The accuracy, performance and ease-of-use of Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 make it the ideal solution for medical professionals looking to lower transcription costs and improve the quality of patient care. Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 is up to 99% accurate. Simply dictate your patient notes and watch as Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 transcribes in real-time. You’ll never have to wait for transcription again!

Use Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 with any computerized patient records application, as well as the full Microsoft Office suite. Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 also comes with a complete library of 14 medical specialty vocabularies covering over 60 subspecialties, as well as the tools to further customize vocabularies for a specific practice. Access Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 from any workstation on your organization’s LAN, and even deploy in Citrix environments. Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 is equally suited for individual practitioners and large hospitals.

THE MOST ACCURATE DRAGON NATURALLYSPEAKING EVER!

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 is up to 99% accurate.

EASY TO USE — NO SPECIAL USER TRAINING REQUIRED

Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Medical 9 installs quickly. No need to read scripts before dictating into your PC. Easy to follow on-screen tutorials included!

OPTIMIZED FOR MEDICAL ENVIRONMENTS

Designed to work with virtually any electronic patient records application. It includes a full library of 14 medical specialty vocabularies covering over 60 subspecialties, including: cardiology, emergency, general medicine, mental health, neurology, Ob/Gyn, oncology, orthopedics, pathology, pediatrics, radiology, surgery and others.

SUPPORT FOR CITRIX® THIN-CLIENT ENVIRONMENTS!

Deploy Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 on a Citrix server so dictation can be available from Citrix thin-clients throughout your organization.

ENTERPRISE READY — EASE OF ADMINISTRATION

Install and manage Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 from a central network location. Easily manage user profiles, vocabularies and installations of Dragon NaturallySpeaking over a network.

MOBILITY — NEW BLUETOOTH SUPPORT

Import recordings from any Nuance-certified* handheld device for automatic transcription. Works with any Nuance-certified Bluetooth wireless microphones, allowing wireless dictation. You can also access your personal voice profile from any networked PC throughout your organization.

AVOID REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURIES

By using your voice to control the PC and create documents, you reduce your risk of developing repetitive strain injuries.

ROBUST CUSTOMIZATION

Quickly create simple commands that will enter blocks of text such as normal exam results or patient education statements. Automate complex, multi-step tasks. Easily import facility specific words and phrases into the existing Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 vocabulary.

Top 10 Reasons to Buy
1. More accurate than ever before. Up to 99% accurate!
2. Create clinical notes, referral letters and e-mails faster. Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 transcribes as accurately as you speak.
3. Save time and money. Reduce or eliminate transcription costs.
4. Works with all of your favorite programs. Dictate, edit and navigate in virtually any Windows-based electronic health records application.
5. Specialized vocabularies for added speed. Includes a complete library of more than 14 medical specialty
vocabularies covering over 60 specialties and subspecialties.
6. Create time saving shortcuts. Custom command capability enables creation of personalized voice commands that instantly enter standard phrases or paragraphs, such as normal exam results.
7. Easier to use than ever before. No training required. Includes all new on-screen tutorials so you will be an expert user in no time.
8. Be productive on the go. Dictate into any Nuance-certified handheld recorder or utilize a Bluetooth wireless microphone. Use Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 to automatically transcribe your documents when synchronizing with a PC.
9. Fully network compatible. Access your unique Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 “profile” from any PC on your organization’s Local Area Network (LAN) or via the Internet.
10. Special Compatibility with Microsoft Office. Natural language commands let you “say it your way.” Plus you can dictate, edit and navigate menus in virtually any Windows application.

Product Description

General Information - Manufacturer: Nuance Communications, Inc - Manufacturer Part Number: A709A-X00-9.0 - Manufacturer Website Address: www.nuance.com - Marketing Information: The accuracy, performanceand ease-of-use ofDragon NaturallySpeakingMedical 9 make it theideal solution for medicalprofessionals looking tolower transcription costsand improve the quality of patient care. DragonNaturallySpeaking Medical 9 is up to 99%accurate. Simply dictate your patient notes andwatch as Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9transcribes in real-time. You"ll never have towait for transcription again.Use Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9with any computerized patient recordsapplication, as well as the full MicrosoftOffice suite. Dragon NaturallySpeakingMedical 9 also comes with a complete libraryof 14 medical specialty vocabularies coveringover 60 subspecialties, as well as the toolsto further customize vocabularies for aspecific practice. Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 isequally suited for individual practitionersand large hospitals. Product Information - Software Sub Type: Voice Recognition - Software Name: Dragon NaturallySpeaking v.9.0 Medical - Features & Benefits: - The most accurate ever - Easy to use - no special user training required - Optimized for medical environments - Support for citrix thin-client environments - Avoid repetitive strain injuries - Enterprise ready - ease of administration - Mobility - new bluetooth support - Robust customization - Language Support: English - Platform Support: PC Miscellaneous - Compatibility: Microsoft Office

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

119 of 126 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars medical version not strictly necessary for every doctor, October 16, 2006

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Frank Edema "photo moto" (intransit, USA) - See all my reviews

I am dictating using the preferred version of Dragon 9.0. I was curious as to whether the huge price difference between the preferred version and the medical version was warranted. Until recently, as a specialist surgeon, I have not found that the additional cost for the medical version would have been strictly necessary. However, I finally upgraded to the medical version after 3-4 months when I found it for a lower price. I recommend that you carefully consider whether you need to spend the extra 900 to $1000 for the medical version.

The medical version does improve your accuracy when you are dictating complex medical phrases and jargon, and the accuracy gain you get might be worth the large price premium. In addition, the medical version includes some network interoperability features, and support for more applications, although I did not find any unsupported programs while using the preferred version. I should say that I finally gave up on the preferred and went to the medical version when I found a copy from a large online retailer for 400 dollars.

The preferred version does quite well with standard medical words, and the few terms that it does not recognize one could quickly train. Unless you have very complex speech, use a lot of jargon, or have network or management needs that the preferred version will not allow, you may want to start with the preferred version. I got mine on a online bid-type site for about 70 dollars.

Potential buyers should be aware that despite extensive training, optimization, and custom word entry, users should expect a significant number of errors using Dragon NS 9 Medical. These errors cannot be eliminated by training, software optimization, high-quality microphones or speech input equipment, or fast computers.

Since I continue to use this program in my medical practice, I have developed a number of work-arounds to minimize the inconvenience and annoyance of transcription errors. First, the software has trained me (not the other way around, I'm afraid) to eliminate certain types of speech and certain words from my dictation vocabulary due to unacceptably high error rates. Second, I use a lot of macros, which are pre-written chunks of text, which naturally contain zero errors. These two things allow me to achieve an error rate that is acceptable, but still significant. Long story short, transcription errors remain a major source of annoyance with this software.

Finally, I am forced to close the program and restart the program each morning when I first began dictating. Whatever happens while the software microphone switch is off for several hours seems to somehow make the program hang. As a result, I lose a few precious moments each time I begin dictating every single working day. This is a major annoyance.

Overall, I still use Dragon, but instead of a fire-breathing speech recognition Dragon, it's more like an annoying mosquito. Nuance support still leaves a lot to be desired, the price of telephone support ($10 per call) is insulting, and bugs remain distressingly common. If there were something better, I'd buy it in a heatbeat, but sadly, Nuance is the only real choice at the moment.

48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Unfortunately, not as good as a transcriptionist, November 9, 2007

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J. T. Stasiak "J. T. Stasiak, MD" (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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I am dictating this reviewusing Dragon NaturallySpeaking medical edition version 9.5 under windows Vista.so that you can get a fair idea of the errors in transcription {that} have to be corrected, [and] {I am} putting the corrections [endorses] {in braces} and the errors in [brackets]. [I appears in ] {I have been using} this product in my practice for approximately 3 months. Technologically, this is a fantastic product. It does an outstanding job with complex medical vocabulary: Right hemicolectomy; uvulopalatal pharyngoplasty;bipolar hemiarthroplasty; total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy; hyalin degeneration; [stem ] {psammoma] bodies. as you can see, there are very few errors with medical jargon. The problem comes with common every day words especially homonyms. For [exam] {example}: the program has trouble distinguishing between two, to, too, 2. [And] {It} also has trouble with patient names [with] {which} a typist would easily [Swarthout] {sort out:} Mrs. [O. Sullivan] {O'Sullivan}. The main trouble is [a duplicate] {you can't just} blaze through dictating [age of] [the eighth Canham with] {the way you can with a} transcriptionist. [He always happy] {You always have to be} watching the screen and correcting [a to] {as you} go along. as you can see from the errors in brackets here, this can be quite time consuming. Those of [you've been] {you who can} type well may very well [prefire] {prefer} typing [and] {your} notes. [the U.] {Those of you} used to dictating with a transcriptionist [nasi in] {may find} this program maddening.with all the correcting that I have to do to my dictation, this program [stays] {saves} me very little, if any, time. [you've ever] {You never} catch all of the errors. [the first on this dictation are corrupting in spite of the program having been of the throat pain. And post] {The errors that you see occurring here are occurring in spite of the program having been "trained" by [repented of] {repetative} manual corrections. those of you [through the] {who require} relatively [or] {error} free dictations, are probably better off with a transcriptionist. overall the product is very good, but not quite ready for the [lentiginous well] {litiginous world} of medical transcription.

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, software better than a transcriptionist., January 4, 2007

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James G. Henderson "jimghenderson" (IA United States) - See all my reviews
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I've tried speech software in the past and was grossly disappointed. I hate the turn around of a transcriptionist and like to see what I'm dictating immediately. With this software I can speak at a rate that I naturally dictate, and in 5 full pages of dictation there are usually 3 errors in translation. Most patient names even are spelled correctly. This is more accurate than many transcriptionists and there are no spelling errors. I only trained the software for 5-10 minutes. My transcription costs are 10-15 thousand dollars per year. This is about 1000 dollars once. One of the best options for any doctor. I'm a family physician, and have been since 1998.