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Announcements
Announcing Dragon Medical Practice Edition
Meet the Newest Dragon in Person!
Buzzwords
Tech Tools & Tips
Contact Us

Announcements

Announcing Dragon Medical Practice Edition
a.k.a. Dragon Medical 11

Introducing… Dragon Medical Practice Edition!

Dragon Medical Practice Edition (DMPE) is the latest member of the Dragon Medical family and is designed and priced for smaller practices—24 physicians or less.

Now clinicians – including physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, therapists, and other care providers – can effectively navigate and dictate medical decision-making and treatment plans directly into a patient's electronic record.

DMPE allows clinicians to use a narrative format to dictate elements of the patient encounter in their own words, including: History of Present Illness, Review of Systems, Physical Examination, and Assessment and Plan.

"I use the EHR for a lot of point-and-click, but for subjective information, as well is my conclusions and impressions, that's where Dragon Medical Practice Edition shines… I would never go back to life pre-Dragon Medical."

—Andrew Fireman, MD, Cardiologist
AMS Cardiology, Abington, Pennsylvania

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE

• More Accurate Than Ever: 15% more accurate than Dragon Medical 10 – and 33% more accurate than Dragon Professional 11 when used in clinical settings.


• Recognition Speed: DMPE improves recognition response time significantly.


• EHR Support : Navigation commands and dictation is now supported directly inside the EHR software. Supported EHR's include - Allscripts™ My Way™, Allscripts Professional, NextGen Ambulatory EHR™, eClinicalWorks®, athenaHealth®, Henry Schein MicroMD®, Practice Fusion™, and Greenway®.


• Improved Profitability: By eliminating transcription costs and saving clinicians time, DMPE allows you to see more patients.


• Substantially Higher Reimbursement: Clinicians can now dictate more comprehensive notes resulting in higher reimbursement rates.


• Medical Vocabularies: Nearly 60 medical specialty vocabularies.


• HIPAA Compliant: Safeguards patient confidentiality
  

DRAGON MEDICAL PRACTICE EDITION VERSUS
DRAGON PROFESSIONAL EDITION

Zephyr-TEC is often asked, "Why should I purchase the more expensive medical version? Why can't I just purchase the Professional version?"

While Dragon Professional Version 11 provides excellent recognition for "general-purpose" business and home use, tests show DMPE to be 33% more accurate than Professional for dictating patient records. This translates into savings of thousands of dollars (or more) over a year spent correcting mistakes and adding medical terminology.

Furthermore, DMPE protects sensitive and confidential patient information by supporting encrypted network file storage of speech files, helping your organization satisfy HIPAA privacy and confidentially guidelines.

Of course with the release of DMPE, clinicians now also take advantage of the enhanced features that have been available to Dragon Version 11 Professional and Legal users over the last year. Here are just a couple of examples…  

Dragon Sidebar –

Dragon's new Sidebar allows users to discover and remember useful commands and tips.

Its contents change depending on what window is currently active.

The "MyCommands" tab in the Sidebar displays user added commands and can be printed - a wonderful new addition for doctors with many custom voice commands.

Multiple Matches –

When you select, correct, edit or format a word or phrase and there are multiple matches smattered throughout your document, DMPE will display a number next to each match.

If your document has multiple instances of, for example, the word: osteophyte, simply say, "select osteophyte" and DMPE will number each match, allowing you to quickly choose the one you want.

The multiple match feature also works with commands to capitalize, insert the cursor, cut, copy, delete, and format text. For many of the multiple match commands, one or all instances of the word or phrase can be chosen.

In the example below, say, "capitalize cervical" to number the matches.

Say, "Choose All" to capitalize instances of cervical.

And More –

See our Dragon Medical Practice Edition page here for more information and links to PDF files.

SPECIAL OFFERS:

Existing Dragon Medical Customers
Upgrade to Dragon Medical practice edition by
September 15, 2011 and save $100

New Dragon Medical Customers
Purchase Dragon Medical Practice Edition by
September 15, 2011 and save $100

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Meet the Newest Dragon in Person!
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Buzzwords
Not sure what it means? Well stay tuned ...

With all the constant change in the field of dictation technology, we thought it would be useful to explain a few buzzwords from speech recognition and digital dictation and then give actual definitions. Here's a couple terms that have been renamed with Dragon 11:

CLU – Clinical Language Understanding:
There is a growing demand to extract structured, "actionable" information from unstructured (dictated) medical documents.

CLU leverages advancements in Natural Language Processing, medical Artificial Intelligence and speech recognition technology to create tailored solutions for health care informatics.

CLU technology can be used to derive patient information from free text and to produce actionable data used to improve patient care and streamline workflow.

Meaningful Use:
Simply stated, meaningful use means providers need to show they're using certified EHR technology in ways that can be measured significantly in quality and in quantity in these 3 components:

1. The use of a certified EHR in a meaningful manner, such as e-prescribing.
2. The use of certified EHR technology for electronic exchange of health information to improve quality of health care.
3. The use of certified EHR technology to submit clinical quality and other measures.

HITECH – Health IT for Economic and Clinical Health Act
Provides physicians up to $64,000 each "for showing that they are meaningfully using health information technology," by purchasing and using CCHIT-certified EHR's.

CCHIT – Certification Commission for Health Information Technology
The commission that tests and awards independently developed certifications of an EHR's integrated functionality, interoperability and security. (Pronounced "see $%^&", in case you were wondering.)

Tech Tools & Tips
Program a PowerMic Button to a Dragon Command

The PowerMic II allows Dragon Medical users to program a PowerMic button to a Dragon command. For example, the hard to say command that removes any leftover bracket sets from Dragon voice templates: "clear variable delimiters."

The easiest way to program a PowerMic button to a command is to first say the command to Dragon.

Open Dragon's Options. On the Dragon bar, choose: Tools > Options > PowerMic II.

Click on the droplist next to the button you wish to assign the command to. Choose: User Commands and then click on the command showing in the list.

Alternately, choose: Specify and type in the name of the command being sure to use the correct spelling and capitalization.