Importance of Dragon Medical One for healthcare professionals with dyslexia

Speech recognition software has grown increasingly crucial in recent years for those working in the healthcare sector. Automated digital transcriptions allow healthcare professionals to dramatically reduce their manual note-taking and admin, which has been widely reported as a burden in the NHS.

But, today, we’ll be looking at the ways in which software like Nuance Dragon Medical One (DMO) can be particularly crucial for those with dyslexia.

Why is speech recognition software so important for those with dyslexia?

An estimated 1 in 10 people in the UK have some degree of dyslexia, a learning difficulty that can cause issues in reading, writing- any task that involves the written word. It’s no wonder speech recognition software, which allows for the real-time, automated transcription of every word you say, can be so crucial for those with dyslexia. Once they’ve started dictating, they barely even need to look at the screen in order to get everything transcribed. And what many still don’t realise is that the accuracy of speech recognition software has come a remarkably long way in recent years; if you’ve only ever used it to tell your smart speaker to play music, you might be missing a trick…

The benefits of Dragon Medical One for healthcare professionals with dyslexia

DMO can be particularly beneficial to healthcare professionals with dyslexia, because the platform is designed specifically for this sector. Here are just a few examples…

• There’s a laundry list of jargon when you’re working in healthcare. This can be a particular hindrance for those with dyslexia, who need to keep up to date with any number of complex medical terms- never mind spelling them and writing them down. Luckily, DMO is trained on a vast vocabulary of medical jargon. So, regardless of the field you’re working in, the platform will be able to automatically transcribe just about every conceivable medical term (unless you just coined it yourself!), and you won’t need to worry about spelling. Transcription errors will be minimal, as DMO boasts a 99% accuracy rate, ensuring all important documentation- such as patient records- is meticulous. And if there are a few errors, you can correct those with your voice too.
• With the NHS under enormous pressure right now, many healthcare professionals are swamped by endless admin. For those with dyslexia, the mountain of paperwork (whether physical or digital) can be doubly challenging. DMO minimises the cognitive load associated with writing, reading, and spelling, freeing up healthcare professionals to slow down, and put more of a focus on patient care. They’re also likely to be more relaxed at work, knowing that this particular burden is reduced.
• DMO can do more than just transcriptions. The platform also offers voice commands, which can be customised by the user. With the right set of voice commands, those with dyslexia can drastically reduce the amount of time they need to be reading, or writing, on their computer. For example, if they needed to write an email, they could set up voice commands that allow them to create a new draft, use speech recognition to transcribe the email, and then use another voice command to send it.

Conclusion: importance of Dragon Medical One for healthcare professionals with dyslexia

Here at Voice Technologies, we’re regularly interfacing with those working in the healthcare sector, and listening to their experiences with speech recognition software. At a recent event, multiple healthcare professionals with dyslexia informed us that, now that they rely on Dragon Medical One, they can hardly imagine how they ever worked without it.

So, whether you have dyslexia, or you’re drowning in admin (or both), it might just be worth giving DMO a try.

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