[alamd]

I have heard that EMR manufacturers leave physicians to fend for themselves when attempting to buy and use Dragon Naturally Speaking and the EMR. Physicians should be trained by professional Dragon support personnel. Has anyone had this experience?

[OrthoMan]

A friend of mine was reviewing a variety of emrs, and most of them said something like 'yes - dragon is great. Feel free to go buy it and use it with our emr.' It does seem like a tighter integration between the two would be in the best interest of most physicians. On the other emr board there are a lot of physicians who state that they use dragon, getting 98 - 99 percent accuracy. That's better than my current transcriptionist. Since I'd like to get rid of my transcription costs, I'd like to see a program that uses dragon very well.

Any thoughts?

[PBO]

We recommend Dragon naturally speaking 8 medical edition for our customers, however we put you in touch with a Dragon rep who will come to your office and demo the product. We recommend you purchase this through the rep and allow them to install, configure and train you how to use the program. I can not stress this enough, they do not only train you they make you spend anywhere from 2-4 hours training Dragon. This is the key to speech recognition success.
We have a great number of clients who use speech recognition to dictate directly into our product, one of many options.
Hope this helps.
www.pbomd.com, we provide a web based emr.

[alamd]

I guess this might not always be the case. It seems as if sometimes Dragon gets entirely integrated into the EMR, such as in this article I just saw:

Nightingale Speech-Enables EMR Solution with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical from Nuance; Nightingale Taps Dragon NaturallySpeaking to Deliver Complete EMR Solution; Reduces Costs and Improves Overall Patient Care

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2005--Nuance Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT), formerly ScanSoft, Inc., the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world, today announced that Nightingale, the leading provider of ASP-based solutions to Canadian healthcare providers, has selected Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Medical to enable speech recognition within its Nightingale electronic medical records (EMR) solutions. The new integration will enable Nightingale's customers to dictate directly into the myNightingale EMR system, dramatically lowering administrative costs, errors, and turnaround time typically associated with manually transcribing critical medical records.


Canadian healthcare professionals can use the power of their voice within the myNightingale EMR to quickly create accurate patient notes, fax or e-mail referral letters, and perform other traditionally transcription-dependent tasks. The integration of Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical with Nightingale's EMR equips healthcare providers with the most efficient, accurate documentation solution available - enabling them to spend less time on administrative tasks and more time on direct patient care.

"Dictation and transcription are important recording elements in most every healthcare environment," said John Bodalai, vice president, marketing for Nightingale. "By integrating Dragon NaturallySpeaking solution into myNightingale, we are providing our physician customers with a best-of-breed solution that recognizes their requirements and delivers a comprehensive package."

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 8 has built-in understanding for more than 300,000 words, and includes 14 specialty vocabularies, including General Medicine, Pathology, Radiology, Cardiology and Surgery disciplines. Healthcare organizations can also easily add their own words to the solution to create fully customized vocabularies. Care providers can take advantage of voice-activated shortcuts, allowing a single word or phrase to automatically populate fields within the Nightingale solution. Dragon NaturallySpeaking provides healthcare technology suppliers and integrators with the ability to quickly and easily speech-enable commercial and in-house PC- and Web-based EMR applications, delivering unrivaled speed and accuracy. Dragon NaturallySpeaking can save healthcare organizations thousands of dollars per doctor each year in reduced or eliminated manual transcription costs. Tens of thousands of physicians worldwide use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to achieve substantial time and money savings, enabling them to focus on patient care.

"Healthcare professionals are continually seeking new ways to save money while at the same time increase productivity and improve the quality of care," said John Shagoury, president, Productivity Applications, Nuance. "Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Nightingale offers a complete voice-enabled EMR solution with the most accurate speech technology available to Canadian healthcare providers, driving down the time and cost associated with managing patient records, and ultimately improving the quality of patient care."



I wish that more companies would do this.

[OrthoMan]

www.pbomd.com, we provide a web based emr.

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PBOmd.

Can you tell us a little more about your web based EMR?

You say it is good for Orthopedics. Please tell me some specifics about the various features that make it particularly good for us?

Thanks

[cvt98]

A friend of mine was reviewing a variety of emrs, and most of them said something like 'yes - dragon is great. Feel free to go buy it and use it with our emr.'  It does seem like a tighter integration between the two would be in the best interest of most physicians. On the other emr board there are a lot of physicians who state that they use dragon, getting 98 - 99 percent accuracy.  That's better than my current transcriptionist. Since I'd like to get rid of my transcription costs, I'd like to see a program that uses dragon very well.

Any thoughts?

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I know a cardiologist in DFW area that has been using Dragon with a emr. He has been using it for years. It all depends on the emr. email me at cvt98@sbcglobal.net if you are interested in his phone number.

[OrthoMan]

cvt98,

I see you use NextGen. Is the DFW doctor also using NextGen? I ask because colleagues of mine are implementing NextGen, and apparently it is used in a Citrix environment in their implementation, and there seem to be some issues with Dragon and Citrix, such that their dealer suggested that, while Dragon is very good in general, it might not be very useable in their particular offices.

Thanks

[Robert Gleeman]

I have heard that EMR manufacturers leave physicians to fend for themselves when attempting to buy and use Dragon Naturally Speaking and the EMR.  Physicians should be trained by professional Dragon support personnel.  Has anyone had this experience? 

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In arranging to speak with Dr. Block for the interview which can be found in this very thread, I was able to speak with several Dragon resellers.

I was utterly amazed at how dedicated they seem to be. This Dragon software is a life-changer for the resellers, and they sell it accordingly. Training? Some will give you free training for life! You can't fake that kind of dedication.

By all means, buy Dragon from one of these resellers. You will learn things about Dragon you can't learn anywhere else. I got so engrossed with asking resellers technical questions, for my own use of Dragon, I almost forgot to do the interview!

Every Dragon reseller I talked with was totally "jazzed" about the product, more so than I have ever seen in 30 years of working with resellers.

If Dragon isn't a magic product, it's pretty darn close.

[american]

For a map of North America, with an indication of the location of Dragon NaturallySpeaking resellers, please see: SpeechRecognition Resellers


Yours,

Eric

[DrJames]

The last post seems most helpful. There is a map of the USA of dragon medical specialists, and it tells you which emrs they work with.

[brainstormworld]

I think we must promote technology emr into two or three modules so that those who are not able to adopt it, they can pick it. e.g. There must be billing coding module seperate, prescription module seperate and rest one seperate. When we would either this way, then adoption of technology can be easy.

Website : Brainstorm - A Medical Transcription Services

Asifjaved
Software Engineer,
http://www.brainstormworld.com