Speech recognition and digital dictation articles, presales information, support, and tips for medical, legal and professional users.
Today’s Speakeasy Solutions Newsletter Topic:
In addition to the usual retinue of reminders, we provide a little advice regarding passwords.
While it is an extreme bother to memorize or keep track of the dozens, and in some cases, hundreds, of passwords we accumulate throughout our computing experience, it is nonetheless vital to choose your passwords carefully.
In the latest newsletter from Canadian EMR, the following article was included. This is excellent advice for medical practitioners, but I would like to add a few remarks of my own.
In the context of this article, templates refers to boilerplate text, also known as repetitious text. Such repetitious text can be incorporated into Microsoft Word templates, but with respect to EMRs, these text templates may be available within the EMR, or in conjunction with Dragon® Medical as a voice command.
I recently gave a presentation to a delightful group of physicians regarding the integration of EMR and speech recognition technology in their medical practices. One segment of my presentation addressed whether or not the variant of Dragon (medical versus nonmedical) actually made a difference. For the benefit of our prospects and clients, I would like to summarize this information below.
Please understand that when I entered this business 12 years ago even I was not convinced that Dragon® Medical was necessary. However, it was proven to me even then that it did make a difference. And now over a decade later, as a result of the advances in this speech recognition technology, that is more true than ever.
We host a number of excellent Philips brochures on our website for those in the medical, legal and professional fields.
I would like to take a moment and draw this one in particular to the attention of our clients who are in the investigative stages of implementing or updating their dictation solutions.
We are pleased to assist you with transitioning from analogue to digital.
For more information, please contact us.
Speakeasy Solutions Inc., based in Vancouver, BC, provides digital dictation equipment (such as Philips’ DPM 9600 digital recorders and Philips’ 7277 transcribers) across Canada from Victoria, BC to St. John’s, NL. We also provide support and services relating to Philips’ SpeechExec Pro and Enterprise workflow software solutions.
We look forward to working with you. If you are ready to receive an estimate or wish to place an order, you may do so here. As always, never hesitate to phone us.
Just as a reminder, Speakeasy Solutions Inc. provides products and services in Canada only.
Prior to the release of the new version of Dragon Medical there was some confusion as to the licensing details of this software.
Since the new version, released in Autumn 2011, there have been more questions.
Hopefully the following will clarify, in very simple terms, how the licensing of Dragon Medical Practice Edition works.
For those of you who have taken training from myself, do you remember when I said that if you do not run Dragon’s Accuracy Tuning (aka the Acoustic & Language Model Optimizer) every few months that Dragon will eventually let you know that it needs you to run this procedure?
Have you been merrily using Dragon and then whilst shutting down for the day encountered the following warning message: “You need to increase the size of the acoustic archive to store the data from your corrections. This data will be used by the Acoustic Optimizer to increase your recognition accuracy. Do you want to increase the size of the acoustic archive?”
Well this is it!
First: Don’t Panic!
Today’s Speakeasy Solutions Newsletter Topic:
General Computer Support & Tips.
Re-position your cursor quickly, maximize the use of the < tab > key, set up & use multiple signatures in MS Outlook, and set your default saving location in MS Word.
This keystroke sequence will re-position the cursor to the top & bottom of the text field in focus.
Sometimes you need to move the cursor to the very top or bottom of a document, or to the beginning or end of a text region in an application (i.e. EMR, website etc.). Most people grab their mouse, hover and then left click (sometimes not even positioning the cursor where desired).
It’s much faster to simply press the < Ctrl + Home > keys to position the cursor to the top or the < Ctrl + End > keys to position the cursor to the bottom.
