Become more productive and self-sufficient
Create accurate, legible patient records, medical reports, and other documents without transcription costs, errors, and delays.

Reduce document turnaround time
Dictate directly into your final document to eliminate the lengthy "dictate-transcribe-revise-approve" cycle.

Improve recognition performance
Add 60,000 specialized medical terms, phrases, and abbreviations to the standard 120,000-word dictionary, for the most extensive medical vocabulary available in a PC speech recognition system.

Streamline the documentation process
Use custom macros to insert boilerplate into your documents with a simple voice command.

Medical professionals can now enjoy the benefits of a speech recognition system tailored to their unique needs. With DragonMed and DragonDictate for Windows, you can dictate and edit patient records, medical reports, and other documents using the specialized terms, phrases, and abbreviations your profession requires.

DragonDictate for Windows instantly converts what you say into text, and even lets you edit and format text from within your Windows or Windows 95 applications. With DragonDictate, you can:

• Speak rather than type
  
• Spell correctly every time
  
• Enter text and data while using your hands for another task
  
• Reduce repetitive keyboard and mouse motions
  
• Compute totally hands-free
  

DragonMed for Windows customizes DragonDictate for use in health care applications, adding 60,000 medical terms, phrases, and abbreviations to the standard dictionary. It analyzes your speech using spelling, acoustic, and language models optimized for a broad range of health care applications.

These models are based on over six years of extensive feedback from DragonDictate users in the health care industry, consultation with medical specialists, case reports, journal articles, and a variety of other medical sources.

Together, DragonDictate and DragonMed provide the most comprehensive speech solution available for all your demanding medical applications.

Highlights

• Incorporates the broadest range of medical terminology available into the active vocabulary of DragonDictate for Windows Classic Edition (30,000 words) or Power Edition (60,000 words).
• Provides a comprehensive 180,000-word backup dictionary, including 60,000 additional medical terms, phrases, and abbreviations (see examples below).

Provides language models optimized for the health care profession

• More than just a word list, the specialized language models reflect how medical terminology is actually used. Recognition speed and accuracy are optimized using context and frequency information derived from millions of words in a broad range of patient records, medical reports, journal articles, and other documents.

Examples of medical terms, phrases, and abbreviations

• Medication and drug names: ACTH, acyclovir, Adriamycin, alprazolam, amikacin, captopril, Fansidar, Halcion, Hemoccult, verapamil, zidovudine
• Medical procedures: augmentation, biopsy, bronchodilation, cholangiography, debridement, dialysis, excision, laparoscopy, lymphadenectomy, myringotomy
• Medical diagnoses: adenopathy, candidiasis, chlamydia, cryoglobulinemia, emesis, fasciitis, hemangioma, hemochromatosis, hyperbilirubinemia, natriuresis
• Diseases: Addison's, alopecia, amyotrophic, anthrax, ARC, asbestosis, Crohn's, diverticulosis, hypernephroma, Parkinson's, seborrhea, teratoma
• Body parts: acetabular, acetabulum, femur, gluteus, humerus, lata, metacarpals, os, skeleton, spine, sternum, tarsus, xiphoid
• Muscles: azygos, bicep, ciliaris, extensor, extraocular, flexor, genioglossus, interosseous, occipital, pectoral, piriform, rectus, striate
• Organs: blood, brain, Corti, gallbladder, Golgi, intestine, Jacobson, kidney, liver, ovary, pancreas, pituitary, Ruffini, spleen, stomach, testes, thymus, uterus, Weber
• Nerves: auriculotemporal, axillary, cervicothoracic, hypoglossal, neuron, palmaris, parasympathetic, parotid, submandibular, transversus, ulnar, zygomatic
• Surgical instruments: catheter, dialyzer, dilator, electrogoniometer, endoscope, forceps, laparoscope, micrographs, scalpel, shunt, splint
• Psychological and psychiatric terms: agoraphobia, dissociative, hypomania, manic-depressive, narcolepsy, obsessive-compulsive, post-traumatic, psychosis
• Common acronyms and abbreviations: CDC, DMD, EEG, EMT, ER, GABA, HCFA, HMO, NIH, NMR, NSAID, PCO2, PKU, WBC

System Requirements

Minimum 486 / 66 MHz Processor
16 MB of RAM
Industry-standard 16-bit sound card or built-in certified audio systems on desktops and portables, including the SoundBlaster 16.
40 MB dedicated hard disk space
Windows 3.1/3.11 or later running in enhanced mode. | DOS 5.2 | DOS 6.1 for laptop. | Windows '95 | Windows NT
DragonDictate for Windows 1.3 or 2.x, Classic or Power Edition (US English)
A 3.5" high-density diskette drive and 15MB of (additional) hard disk space