How The Dragon Medical Practice Edition Helps Physicians and Clinics

One of the most profound changes in the healthcare field is the introduction of electronic health record systems. Initially seen as a way to digitize patient charts and records, EHRs have also vastly increased the amount of information collected — a challenge and an opportunity for busy clinicians. Many hospitals and medical practices are moving to e-health record systems. While these can lower costs and improve quality of care, they are nonetheless a source of complaint from many healthcare workers.

Dragon Medical Practice incorporates voice recognition into electronic health record systems, allowing doctors to get the benefits of this technology without the additional time.

The Dragon Medical Practice Edition, part of the Dragon Naturally Speaking speech recognition software, can help users streamline workflows within an EHR. Like with other versions of the dictation software, it allows users to speak instead of typing out notes, forms and other reports. 

 

The version is optimized for healthcare and boasts 90 specific medical vocabulary sets. The software can respond accurately to medical terms such as “acetylsalicylic acid,” “pulmonary edema,” “cardiomyopathy,” and many other words not commonly used in everyday speech (and ones that are not part of other Dragon programs).

 

Due to strict privacy laws, Dragon also ensures that data collected by the software is secure. Everything spoken into the program is automatically encrypted and remains that way throughout the dictation process and resulting transfer into the EHR.