Dragon Medical Practice Edition is speech recognition software that allows clinicians to dictate clinical documentation directly into a patient's electronic health record for faster, more efficient documentation. It provides benefits such as 30+ minutes of time saved per day, higher accuracy than clicking or typing, and supporting higher levels of medical decision making and reimbursement. Dragon Medical Practice Edition is designed for medical practices with up to 24 physicians.

1. PRODUCT SHEET
SPEECH-ENABLE THE PRACTICE’S
EHR FOR FASTER , MORE EFFICIENT,
AND PROFITABLE CLINICAL
DOCUMENTATION
Dragon Medical Practice Edition KEY BENEFITS
• ictate faster and more
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The Right Solution for Practices With accurately than ever before
Up to 24 Physicians • ictate anywhere in your EHR
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and accelerate adoption
CHALLENGE: • ramatically reduce
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How can clinicians spend less time typing or clicking transcription costs
inside their EHR? • ave clinicians 30 minutes or
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more a day
SOLUTION:
• pend more time with patients
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By using Dragon® Medical Practice Edition, clinicians—
including physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician • ictate in clinician’s own words
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assistants, therapists, and other care providers—can efficiently • upport higher level of
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navigate and dictate medical decision-making and treatment reimbursement
plans directly into a patient’s electronic record. It is designed
and priced especially for smaller practices, to help clinicians
accelerate adoption of their chosen EHR.
Using Dragon Medical Practice Edition ensures clinicians
document care more completely and ‘in their own words’.
Clinicians using Dragon Medical solutions have experienced
substantially greater satisfaction than clinicians who use the
EHR without Dragon Medical.
Available only for practices of 24 physicians or less,
Dragon Medical Practice Edition is 99% accurate ‘out of the
box’ and includes a complete range of medical vocabularies.
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2. Dragon Medical Practice Edition lets clinicians “ use the EHR for a lot of point-
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use a narrative format to dictate the elements
of a patient encounter where clinicians need to and-click, but for the subjective
document care in their own words, including the
information, as well as my conclusions
History of Present Illness, Review of Systems,
Physical Examination, and Assessment and and impressions, that’s where
Plan. Dragon Medical Practice Edition supports
HIPAA patient confidentiality guidelines, a critical Dragon Medical Practice Edition
requirement for any practice concerned with
shines... I would never go back to life
patient confidentiality.
pre-Dragon Medical.”
Clinicians also save additional time by using
— ndrew Fireman, MD
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customized macros to enter frequently-dictated
Cardiologist, AMS Cardiology
text with a single voice command. Overall, Dragon Abington, Pennsylvania
Medical solutions dramatically reduce the time
clinicians spend documenting care—30 minutes
or more a day, according to a number of studies. DICTATE ANYWHERE IN THE EHR
Dragon Medical Practice Edition allows clinicians
Dragon Medical Practice Edition lets clinicians to dictate anywhere in an EHR system. Clinicians
navigate many Windows®-based EHR systems no longer have to click back and forth between
using voice commands—three times faster than information they’re reviewing and the EHR’s
most people can type or click with a mouse. dictation window. They dictate while reviewing
information in Hidden Mode, which allows the
Dragon Medical Practice Edition runs on a variety clinician to place the dictation directly where he
of hardware, from netbooks to high-powered or she wishes.
desktops. The software automatically detects
hardware resources and sets up the recommended WITH DRAGON MEDICAL PRACTICE
configuration. Its state-of-the-art technology EDITION, PRACTICES CAN DELIVER
takes advantage of advances in hardware and HIGHER QUALITY CARE
runs in multiple threads automatically when Clinicians receive a host of key advantages with
multi-core hardware is detected, to achieve Dragon Medical Practice Edition compared with
better recognition performance. previous versions:
• pend more time with patients
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DRAGON MEDICAL PRACTICE EDITION
Increased accuracy means fewer errors to
MAKES CLINICIANS MORE EFFICIENT
correct, which lets clinicians spend more time
Dragon Medical Practice Edition lets clinicians with patients, improving both quality of care
dictate faster and more accurately than ever and patient satisfaction.
before. Dragon Medical Practice Edition is
15% more accurate before enrollment than the • ictate in their own words
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previous version—meaning that clinicians will Dragon Medical’s free-text dictation capability
save time documenting care in an EHR. supports the ‘medical decision-making’ aspects
of the note, which gives referring physicians and
ancillary providers a clearer and more detailed
patient assessment and prognosis.

3. • edical information at their finger tips
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Dragon Medical Practice Edition offers
• ore Accurate Than Ever
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multiple voice shortcuts for searching medical
15% more accurate than Dragon Medical 10
information on the web. Clinicians can now
—and 33% more accurate than non-medical
search medical data via a single command on
Dragon
WebMD®, UpToDate®, PubMed®, and ICD-9.
These commands can be said at any time • ecognition Speed
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without even having an Internet browser open. Dragon Medical Practice Edition improves
These commands combine multiple clicks into recognition response time significantly.
one fast command for the busy clinician. • HR Support
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Simply say, “Search UpToDate for Navigate and dictate inside EHR software:
Wellbutrin contraindications”, and History of Present Illness, Review of
Dragon Medical Practice Edition and Symptoms, and Assessment and Plan
UpToDate take you there.
• Medical Vocabularies
• ecure patient information
S Covers nearly 60 specialties and
Dragon Medical Practice Edition supports subspecialties
HIPAA compliance guidelines to protect patient • egional Accent Support
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security and confidentiality. Accented speakers get higher ‘out-of-the-
box’ recognition with advanced adaptation
• mprove physician satisfaction
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techniques and accent-specific acoustic
Physicians who use Dragon Medical Practice Edition
models
report that it significantly improves their
enjoyment of practicing medicine. • Hidden Mode
Dragon Medical Practice Edition helps them use Dictate anywhere in the EHR, eliminating
their time more effectively and get home in time navigation between EHR screens and the
for dinner, thus improving physician quality of life. notes window
• ragon Medical Template Library
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DRAGON MEDICAL PRACTICE EDITION Includes library of macros for standard
YIELDS COST SAVINGS AND PROFITABILITY notes and ‘medical normals’ by body
Clinicians enjoy significant cost reductions system
and productivity boosts when they move from • mart Configuration
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typing, handwriting, or transcription—or when Automatically detects hardware resources.
they upgrade to Dragon Medical Practice Edition Its state-of-the-art technology takes
from previous medical versions or non-medical advantage of advances in hardware and
solutions: runs in multiple threads automatically when
multi-core hardware is detected, for better
• educe the cost of documentation
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recognition performance
Eliminate transcription by speech-enabling
the EHR system, freeing up resources to • ecognition Analytics
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focus more on patients, to help increase Automatically detects poor audio input and
practice efficiency. Practices that are using alerts the user, offering advice to remedy
Dragon Medical Practice Edition today are the situation and improve accuracy
significantly lowering their transcription costs
by hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.

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THE RIGHT SOLUTION DRAGON MEDICAL: A LEADING SOLUTION
FOR PRACTICING CLINICIANS
Dragon Medical Practice Edition is the right
The Dragon Medical solutions family is the
solution for your clinical setting, as compared
leading speech recognition solution in healthcare
with non-medical Dragon offerings.
today. Dragon Medical technology has been
Non-Medical chosen by more than 180,000 physicians
Dragon Medical Speech
Features Practice Edition Recognition worldwide to document clinical records and
Software dictate correspondence, making it the most
Comprehensive Medical 4 No widely used speech recognition solution for
Vocabulary Library
physicians. Clinicians should use
EHR Support 4 No Dragon Medical Practice Edition with EHR
HIPAA Supportive 4 No systems such as AllscriptsTM MyWay, Allscripts
Hidden Dictation Box 4 No Professional™, NextGenTM Ambulatory EHR,
eClinicalWorks®, Henry Schein MicroMD
DragonTemplates 4 No
EHR®, athenaClinicals® EHR, PracticeFusion®,
Medical Formatting Rules 4 No
Greenway®, and dozens more Windows®-based
Anchored Dictation Box 4 No
EHR software products.
Correction-Only Profile 4 No
Even rarely used medical terms appear in
Data Distribution 4 No
Dragon Medical Practice Edition the first time
Medical Search Commands 4 No clinicians say them. Clinicians don’t need to add or
My Commands Window 4 No train words with Dragon Medical Practice Edition.
Whether the clinician’s country of origin is India,
China, Pakistan, England, the U.S., or Australia,
• upport higher quality and more complete
S Dragon Medical Practice Edition recognizes his or her
documentation speech patterns because it has heard them before.
Using Dragon Medical Practice Edition results
in higher levels of reimbursement than notes
built by point-and-click EHR templates alone. ABOUT NUANCE HEALTHCARE
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