Does anyone have an update or suggestion regarding the AC spell-checker, especially with respect to mixed-CASE and hyphenated words? It's getting quite annoying to see the same ?errors? over and over and over again.
Just about a year ago at the ACUC in Providence, Jon B acknowledged that the spell-checker needs to be improved, but nothing has been done as far as I can tell in V6.0.10 and 6.1.2.
A LOT of time is wasted continuously wading through the spell-check sequence as a note is completed. About half of the spell-check errors are my stupid mistakes and half are the program?s ?mistakes? by having inappropriate mixed-CASE medication names in the drug database (amLODIPine, predNISONE, etc) and by not allowing hyphenated words.
Is there a way to change the mixed-CASE drug names in the drug database, yet retaining their codified status?
Is there a way to ?allow? hyphenated words without having to perform tricks such as placing a space before and after each hyphen (eg, ?mid-May? would become ?mid - May,? ?ex-husband? would become ?ex ? husband?), which is not grammatically correct. It might work, however, to enter such changes into the userdic.tlx file so that we would not have to deal with them over and over again, although, again, not grammatically correct.
Likewise, I like ?KCl,? ?CaCO3? and ?mEq? rather than ?K Cl,? ?Ca CO3? and ?m Eq,? but AC does not allow for what seems to be the most commonly used formatting.
Finally, does anyone know about Travis? statement from 08/2011 ?I have not found that formatting to be necessary. I actually found a huge section of text files online of medical words, combined all of the text files into one and add those words to the tlx file without the space-i formatting. works like a dream.? Any ideas where one can find those text files?
Thanks for any advice.
Bob
