Nuance Dragon for Mac Medical Speech Recognition Software

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Nuance Communications has announced Dragon for Mac Medical, the latest version of Mac-based speech recognition software for clinicians.

The software assists clinical workflows by allowing clinicians to dictate documentation of patient encounters directly into Mac-based electronic health records (EHR), such as MacPractice or other systems, with greater detail and specificity, leaving more time for patient care. An enhanced speech recognition engine offers up to 15% greater accuracy over the previous version and supports updated medical vocabularies for more than 90 medical specialties and subspecialties.

The product also learns a clinician’s voice over time and grows more accurate to assist in capturing important information. The software allows clinicians to set up custom words for terminology unique to a location or area of specialty and create simple dictation commands for multiple lines or formatted lines of text (eg, “Insert negative ROS.”).

Other features include: a redesigned interface with a drop-down menu of essential functions; improved support for built-in microphones for all MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and iMac computers for higher initial accuracy without training; and support for OS X El Capitan (10.11).