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Hi everyone,

I have been doing some advanced planning for Windows 11.

We have been using Dragon Medical Practice Edition 4 on Windows 10 Pro. I was checking for Windows 11 compatibility, and was surprised to find that Dragon Medical Practice looks like it has been dropped completely, and support ends at the end of this month.

The current product is Dragon Medical 1, cloud based.

It looks like there is a one time $525 implementation fee, then approximately $1000 annual fee. I am guessing this is per provider. Since there are 2 of us, that would be over $1000 implementation fee, then $2000 yearly, or over 5 years $11,000.

So my thought, right now, is to continue using the current Dragon Medical on-site for the next 3 years, continuing those PCs on Windows 10 Pro.

Anyone actually using Dragon Medical 1? How is it? Any other thoughts or alternatives to Dragon?

Thanks.

Gene

Hi Gene:

I had used DPME for years. When they decided to not support it any more I decided to go to Dragon one. I can not say it works great, because some small things from DPME are gone. In DPME when dictating into any program that it does not recognize the dictation will appear in a text box that you have to transfer into the field you want the text to appear to. In AC it does not recognize some fields( such as doing a referral letter, so you will be dictating into the text box and have to transfer to the field for the letter. So far I believe that is the only place I notice that Dragon one does not recognize. You can dictate in all other fields in AC, just like DPME. I also dictate from home using DPME using GoToMYPC and it works fine with DPME, but does not work with Dragon one. Therefore I have DPME still on my home computer for dictating from home and have both DPME and dragon one installed on my office computer.
Also with Dragon one you must have an active internet to access your speech files which are in the cloud. If internet is down you won't be able to connect to the cloud. If you want to use dragon one on any hospital computer you will need to have to install the workstation part of dragon one and IT from the hospital will probably not allow that. It seems that they have not fully worked out the kinks yet.

I must correct my previous post.:
I had used DPME for years. When they decided to not support it any more I decided to go to Dragon one. I can not say Dragon one works great, because some small things from DPME are gone. In Dragon one when dictating into any program that it does not recognize, the dictation will appear in a text box that you have to transfer into the field you want the text to appear to. In AC it does not recognize some fields( such as doing a referral letter, so you will be dictating into the text box and have to transfer to the field for the letter. So far I believe that is the only place in AC that Dragon one does not recognize. You can dictate in all other fields in AC, just like DPME. I also dictate from home using DPME using GoToMYPC and it works fine with DPME, but does not work with Dragon one. Therefore I have DPME still on my home computer for dictating from home and have both DPME and dragon one installed on my office computer.
Also with Dragon one you must have an active internet to access your speech files which are in the cloud. If internet is down you won't be able to connect to the cloud. If you want to use dragon one on any hospital computer you will need to have to install the workstation part of dragon one and IT from the hospital will probably not allow that. It seems that they have not fully worked out the kinks yet.

Sorry for the errors.

I did upgrade my PCs to Windows 11 Pro and DMPE works fine. Don't know for how long it will work but for now it works just it did in Windows 10 Pro.

@ Naeem. Good to know. I'll probably just keep running Win 10 Pro til end of life in 2 years or so just in case. How do you find Win 11? Anything compellling?

Hi Naeem,

Thanks for the update. Very helpful.

Why did you go to Win 11?

Thanks

Gene

Even though there is plenty of time to plan and upgrade, I went ahead and did that already. Practically the PC performs the same and I dont have to worry about Win10 end of life.