Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9

Most are surprised to learn that medical transcription is a $10 Billion industry. Is it any wonder that transcription is costing you a fortune? Whether your transcription is done in-house or outsourced, Logan Solutions can help you reduce or eliminate your transcription expenses.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking® Medical Solutions speech recognition software enables medical professionals to work faster and more efficiently. Dictate directly into electronic medical records, create patient notes, and fax referral letters—all by voice! Users reduce or eliminate transcription processing time and costs by dictating directly into a PC or any Nuance-certified digital recorder or Pocket PC. Integrated with Microsoft® Office and the eClinicalWorks electronic medical records system, Dragon NaturallySpeaking® software works with virtually all Windows®-based applications. Listen to incoming e-mails and documents read aloud. Create your own documents on the spot or send your recorded dictation to be transcribed elsewhere. Includes a comprehensive, customizable medical vocabulary.

Most Accurate Than Ever – Significant improvements to the Dragon NaturallySpeaking recognition system have yielded an accuracy improvement of more than 20 percent over the previous release, and nearly 40 percent over version 7 – resulting in speech recognition accuracy levels as high as 99 percent.

No Initial Training – Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 is the first desktop speech recognition solution to truly remove the time need to initially “train” the software – and still deliver accurate results.

Speech Seamlessly Integrated – Simply install Dragon NaturallySpeaking and you have added speech input and control to virtually all of your Microsoft Windows applications. The new release includes specific integration with Microsoft® Office, Outlook® and Internet Explorer®, as well as Corel® WordPerfect™ and Mozilla™ Firefox® and Thunderbird™.

New-found Mobility, Portability – New support for Nuance-approved Bluetooth headsets gives users the freedom to dictate wirelessly, without being tethered to a PC. In addition, users can capture dictation with mobile devices such as digital recorders, Palm® Tungsten™ and Pocket PCs for automatic transcription by Dragon NaturallySpeaking when synched with thePC.

Enterprise Features – Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional 9 can be accessed from anywhere on a network, even thin client Citrix® terminals. Improved network tools allow administrators to easily manage Dragon NaturallySpeaking deployments over a network to multiple clients.

Key Benefits

FASTER THAN TYPING
Most people speak over 120 words per minute, but type less than 40 words a minute.  That means you can create clinical notes, letters and e-mail more then three times faster with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

REDUCE OR ELIMINATE TRANSCRIPTION COSTS 
You can save thousands of dollars or more per year or more over manual transcription costs.

MORE ACCURATE THAN EVER
With up to 99% accuracy, Dragon NaturallySpeaking^® 9 is typically more accurate than typing.  Customize any of the 14 preconfigured medical specialty vocabularies and get even higher accuracy.

EASY TO USE
Simply install the Dragon NaturallySpeaking CD, and in just a few minutes, you’ll be dictating clinical notes, letters, and e-mail!  We even include a noise-canceling microphone.

WORKS WITH THE PROGRAMS YOU USE
Dictate, edit and control applications all by voice with the full Microsoft^® Office^® Suite, Corel^® WordPerfect^®, Lotus Notes^® and any other Windows^® -based application, including most electronic health records applications.

NETWORK READY
Use Dragon NaturallySpeaking from any PC on your organization’s network. Version 9 now works in a Citrix environment.

MOBILE
Be productive on-the-go.  Import recordings from any Nuance-certified handheld recorder for automatic transcription and have a third party editor quickly and easily make corrections.

USE A PC HANDS FREE
Dragon NaturallySpeaking is Section 508 certified to give people with disabilities hands-free use of the PC.  The ideal tool to assist people with repetitive stress injuries, like carpal tunnel syndrome.

System Requirements

• A computer with an Intel® Pentium® 4 (or equivalent AMD processor) 1GHz processor or greater. Recommended: 2.4 GHz.
• Windows 2000 or Windows 2000 Advanced Server (Service Pack 4 or higher), Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Pro or Windows XP Home (SP1 or SP2). Windows ME and Windows NT are not supported. Unreleased versions of Microsoft Windows are not supported.
• 16-bit Creative® Labs Sound Blaster®, or compatible sound card capable of and set to 16bit, 11KHz for audio recording.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or above.
• 1GB RAM (512 MB free minimum).
• Minimum of 650 MB of free hard disk space for a Custom Installation where you install only the program files and 1 set of speech files. Installations can range from 800 MB (US English Essentials) to 2.5 GB (US English Professional Medical).
• CD-ROM drive (8x or faster) required for installation.
• Nuance-approved noise-canceling headset microphone. A microphone is included with the full product. A microphone is not included with upgrade versions of Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
• Speakers - optional for playback of recorded speech and text-to speech features. (Available only in Preferred and higher editions).
• An Internet connection for product activation and automatic updates.