Thanks for all the good information, Tom.
I looked at the PDF you referred to me and it was very informative.
I have been working with Jon on adding enhancements to the controls of Amazing Charts to facilitate Dragon command and control capabilities. A lot of great improvements occurred in the latest Beta. I believe this will be a big help to users with disabilities and can also help to prevent disabilities by reducing repetitive stress injury.
It is also just plain cool.
A few points, particular to the Amazing Charts crowd:
- People on this forum are generally very frugal, to use a nice term!
Amazing Charts is an excellent EMR for stressed-out solo docs and small practices who are trying to keep their overhead down. - People here are interested in voice recognition, as a means to creating personalized notes while keeping transcription costs and overhead down.
- To that end, from a marketing standpoint, you're going to have a lot better luck getting folks to try DNS Preferred with the medical vocab, then getting them to add on KnowBrainer if they decide they are missing those capabilities.
- The Logitech headset gives adequate recognition for me, even using my Dell's internal sound card. I realize that may not be the case for everyone, but for me it is adequate. And, adequate is adequate.
- My biggest problem is actually discomfort -- I can't wear it for a long time -- it hurts my ears.
- Also, I use a K-Mart stethoscope, not a Littman.
- A number of folks here have tried Dragon and rejected it because it made embarrassing mistakes or they could not train it properly. I am sure this is because of inadequacies in training or equipment, but if they are unwilling/unable to correct these things with $95 Preferred, they would have had the same problem with $950 Medical version.
