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We often encounter questions regarding the ability to dictate into AMD. Many providers, used to tools such as Dragon or simply to their phones, would prefer to dictate instead of typing.
There are three main solutions:
The Traditional Choice: AMD is compatible with dictation devices such as Dragon. You can relatively easily set your Dragon device or application to work with AMD.
The Simple Choice: All devices, browsers, laptops, and PCs now enable dictation through the embedded microphone. In Windows-based PCs, for instance, the combination of Windows + H brings up the microphone. While this option does not include saved templates like Dragon, it does do a good job of transcribing one's speech into text, including punctuation.
The Future-Facing Choice: AdvancedMD now offers AI dictation. Meaning, you dictate your note, or let the AI agent ambiently listen to your appointment, and the system will produce a pretty solid SOAP note or visit summary. Technically, this is not exactly dictation - this is an AI-created note based on one's dictation, but the result is good nonetheless.
All three choices require some planning before designing your patient notes. If you plan on using dictation as your main tool for generating notes, then your notes should be mostly based on free text boxes, and not on radio-buttons, check boxes, dropdowns, and other fields typically meant to control how a provider creates a note.
If you need your providers to fill out specific fields, you can still rely on a combination of dictation and a traditional AdvancedMD note.
In addition, each method has its pros and cons. Method #1 provides access to saved templates, allowing for quicker and more guided dictation; however, it relies on an external application, which comes at additional cost and complexity. Method #2's advantage is that it requires no additional investment; however, it means plain dictation without any time-saving invocation of preset templates. Method' 3's biggest pro is that it saves almost all the time of doing a note, as long as the provider speaks during the appointment. The con, for the moment, is both an additional cost and the limited format of the resulting note - SOAP or a visit summary.
Practices should review all three options and decide which option works best for them. Option #3 will most likely expand greatly over time, to include more formatting options.
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