Medical Solutions - Digital Dictation

Digital dictation & transcription
Dragon Naturally Speaking Professional 9 makes your user profile available to any workstation anywhere on your network. This is via a mapped drive, UNC Path or http location.

NaturallySpeaking automatically synchronises, updates & adapts your voice file centrally eliminating the need to train a voice file on every workstation with wish to operate.

This facility gives you the freedom to dictate on any workstation in your hospital installed with NaturallySpeaking, a laptop used at work & at home or workstations situated at different offices around the country linked to the same server.

Olympus digital dictation machines

NaturallySpeaking Medical version 9

Medical Solutions - digital dictation & transcription using NaturallySpeaking Medical v9

Unlike direct dictation, the medical author uses a digital dictation machine such as the Olympus DS-2300 that allows them to record information at or away from their PC. The typist/secretary has NaturallySpeaking 'speech recognition' software installed onto their PC with a voice file for any medical author trained up & installed onto their PC.

The process begins when the medical author dictates into a digital voice recorder, much the same way they would dictate into any handheld voice recorder. The author then uploads the files from their digital voice recorder to their computer via a USB cable or a docking station.

The user can then save the audio files to the directory of their choice (on their server) or the recording can be sent via email to the transcriptionist. (see diagram below).

The transcriptionist can then either act on receiving the e-mail or access the shared folder on the server on a regular basis. They would then open NaturallySpeaking & click on the audio file to be transcribed. NaturallySpeaking will then type up the recording in real time into either MS Word or our your own application.

Using the NaturallySpeaking software, the transcriptionist can then manipulate the digital voice file using the play button on the NaturallySpeaking toolbar to make any necessary corrections. The document can then either be returned to the doctor for authorising or attached to the medical system.