Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 Upgrade from Medical Review

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(More customer reviews)I am dictating this description using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.5 medical edition under windows Vista.The voice recognition for advanced medical terminology is generally outstanding: For example: "Angiofibroplastic hyperplasia," "bone morphogenic proteins," "bipolar hip arthroplasty," "percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty."Most of the trouble comes with simple words such as homonyms: "C.", "See" and "sea".I have used this product on my office computer, a Dell desktop with 500 MB of RAM and two GHz single core CPU running windows XP,and the performance was intolerable until the RAM was upgraded to 2 GB. You have the ability to adjust the trade-off between speed and accuracy. For medical applications, accuracy is of paramount importance and setting the program for maximum accuracy slows it down considerably.

For those of you upgrading from previous versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the version 9.5 medical upgrade allows you to upgrade from versions 7 or 8 "medical" or "professional", but not medical versions prior to version 7 nor the "standard" or "preferred" editions of any previous version. Warning: For the version 9.5 medical upgrade to install over version 7, version 7 must be physically installed on your hard drive.The install program will not recognize the version 7 medical CD inserted into your CD drive as a qualified upgrade product.It will, however, recognize the version 8 medical CD as a qualified upgrade product.

Overall, this is an excellent product, but not as good as a medical transcriptionist.You still have to do a fair amount of correction to your dictation, which takes a substantial amount of time.For me, it is still faster than typing.For those of you who can type well, this product may be less attractive. The voice recognition is far superior to the native windows Vista voice recognition program.

Addendum: After further evaluation, I have to downgrade the rating of this product to 2.5 stars. The amount of correction required (<1-2%) seems low, but is enough to nullify any gain in productivity. What this product does is still amazing, but it can't do it as well as a good transcriptionist. In a litiginous world where you are held accountable for your notes and you don't have time to review everything, this is an important consideration.

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Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 enables healthcare professionals to complete clinical notes instantly and at a fraction of the cost of manual transcription. Each physician that uses Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 can save tens of thousands of dollars per year! Its never been faster or easier to use, and its amazingly accurate - up to 30% more accurate than the prior release. Use with any Microsoft Office application, or any Windows based Electronic Medical Records solution. Packaged with 14 pre-configured medical specialty vocabularies, and allows you to create other custom vocabularies to maximize recognition accuracy. Includes tools for network deployments, such as support for Citrix thin clients. Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9 means lower costs and better patient care!

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