Dictaphone Powermic Ii Dictation Microphone 0POWM2N-004-D1001 - 0POWM2N-004

Product Description

The Dictaphone PowerMic™II from Nuance is specially designed for enhanced physician productivity, providing ergonomic control of both standard dictation and speech recognition functions. The PowerMic II microphone offers simplified single-handed, thumb-control operation for dictating, navigating, reviewing, and editing speech recognition generated documentation.

This is a very high quality microphone - designed for the professional - and with a number of unique features making it highly convenient and accurate with speech recognition software and particularly well suited for use with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. The PowerMic II microphone offers simplified single-handed, thumb-control operation for dictating, navigating, reviewing, and editing speech recognition generated documentation.

This microphone integrates partially with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 9.5, Medical 10, 10.1 beyond and, in fact, if Dragon is set-up with this as the planned microphone the program provides a separate menu of "hot keys" specifically related to this microphone (see below). Integration with NaturallySpeaking Medical 10 is particularly rich and allows use of microphone button to accomplish a series of functions listed in detail below.

Features:

Hand-held
High accuracy
Reasonably good noise cancellation
Programmable buttons
Excellent ergonomics
Designed for integrated use with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 10
USB interface with PC
No need for drivers

Nuance PowerMic II Special Features


Dictate Faster, More Accurately than Ever Dragon 10 Medical is up to 20% more accurate out of the box than Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Medical. With a much quicker response time, clinicians can save valuable minutes in their work day.

Dictate Anywhere in Your EMR Using Dragon 10 Medical, users are able to dictate anywhere in an EMR system-while reviewing a patient's history, prescriptions, or lab tests. Clinicians no longer have to click back and forth between information they're reviewing and the dictation window. Dictate into the "hidden window" to paste dictated text directly where needed.

Spend More Time with Patients The improved response time and with fewer errors to correct, medical professionals can now spend more time with patients, improving their overall satisfaction.

Dictate in Your Own Words Dragon's free-text dictation capability allows for a more detailed History of Present Illness, more flexible Review of Systems, and more descriptive Assessment and Plan. This gives clinicians and ancillary providers a clearer and more detailed patient assessment.

Optimized for Medical Environments Designed to work with virtually any electronic patient records application. Full library of 75 medical specialty vocabularies covering over 60 sub-specialties, including: cardiology, emergency, general medicine, mental health, neurology, Ob/Gyn, oncology, orthopedics, pathology, pediatrics, radiology, surgery and others.

Robust Customization Quickly create simple commands that will enter blocks of text such as normal exam results or patient education statements. Automate complex, multi-step tasks. Easily import personal words and phrases into the existing Dragon 10 Medical vocabulary.

Secure Your Patient Information Dragon 10 Medical is the only speech recognition software on the market that meets HIPAA compliance guidelines with the use of file encryption to ensure confidentiality.

Reduce the Cost of Documentation Eliminate your cost for transcription by operating your EMR system with your voice. Free up valuable human resources to focus more on patient care and efficiency.

Additional Information:

Integration with NaturallySpeaking 10 Medical:

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical Solutions allows extensive integration with the Powermic II, including the following category of functions which can be assigned to any of 10 buttons:

1. Application: buttons can be programmed to launch either:

dictation box
launch the DragonBar menu

2. Dictation functions: a button can be programmed to do any of the following functions

Microphone on/off
Show correction window
Microphone sleep/on
Press-to-talk
Train new word
Transcribe recording
Transfer text (part of dictation box function)

3. Navigation functions:

Skip backward
Skip forward
Press OK button
Press Cancel button
Tab forward
Select previous variable field
Select next variable field
Clear delimiting character

4. Recognition Modes:

Force normal recognition
Force dictation recognition
Force command recognition
Force numbers recognition
Force spell recognition
Hidden mode on/off

5. Playback:

Plackback
Fast playback

6. User Command: Ability to program button to
initiate any dragon or personally created command

Compatibility Issues:

1. Operating System: The PowerMic II has built in firmware that allows for plug and play compatibility with Windows 2000 and XP operating systems. The PowerMics we sell are also Vista compliant. If you purchased a PowerMic II elsewhere and are having problems using it with the Vista operating system, appropriate drivers can be downloaded from Nuance/Dictaphone at:

http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/medical/powermic/

We have also noted basic functionality with Intel based Macs, although advanced programming of buttons is not possible.

2. Dragon 9 Compatibility: the Powermic II will work as a simple USB microphone with Dragon version 9.0 and earlier versions (and also non-medical versions of 9.5 and 10), and allows for use of the track-point button to control the mouse, and use of the left and right mouse click buttons, but does not allow for programming of other buttons. If you have version 9 medical and need to download version 9.5, you can do so from this link: http://www.nuance.com/vista/ You will need to enter your Dragon 9 serial number (activation code) in order to install the download.

3. Dragon 9.5 Medical: additional integration increases the functionality of the PowerMic II microphone when used with Dragon 9.5 Medical. With 9.5 Medical, the PowerMic II can be selected as the dictation source on the New User wizard and a tab pertaining to the PowerMic II is found on the Options menu. This allows some simple programming of buttons, similar to the "hotkey" programming allowed for keys on your keyboard.

3. Dragon 10 Medical Compatibility: The PowerMic II is fully functional with Dragon 10 Medical and provides the high degree of programming for each button as shown above.

Compatibility Overview:

Software Environment	Microphone	Speaker	Track-Point Button	Left/right mouse buttons	Basic Programming of 10 accessory buttons (1)	Advanced Programming of 10 accessory buttons (2)
General Audio Programs in Windows XP & Vista	√	√	√	√
General Audio Programs on an Intel based Mac	√	√	√	√
NaturallySpeaking 9.0 and earlier	√	√	√	√
NaturallySpeaking 9.5 (non-medical)	√	√	√	√
NaturallySpeaking 10 (non-medical)	√	√	√	√
NaturallySpeaking 9.5 Medical	√	√	√	√	√
Dragon Medical 10	√	√	√	√	√	√

(1) “Basic Programming” of the 10 accessory buttons means that standard functions which can be assigned to keys on the pc keyboard can also be assigned to any of the 10 programmable buttons on the PowerMic II using the “hotkeys” tab on the Dragon NaturallySpeaking Options window.

(2)Advanced Programming of the 10 accessory buttons means that a tab specific to the PowerMic II will be present in the Dragon Options window and that keys can be assigned to affect a number of higher level functions within dragon, including initiation of commands.

Setting up the Dictaphone PowerMic II:

1. The microphone does not come with a disk with drivers. When used with an appropriate version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, integration results from a combination of The Dictaphone PowerMic II firmware and functionality built into the Dragon software.

2. Dragon 9.5: As indicated in the "compatibility" section above, the Powermic II has only limited functionality as a USB microphone in all non-medical version of Dragon. A separate tab for the PowerMic will not show up in the Options Menu. Simply choose the microphone as the sound source (under windows XP it will show up as "PowermicII-NS")

3. With Dragon 9.5 Medical and 10 Medical, it is necessary to have the microphone plugged in and then either:

a) create a new user profile and select "PowerMic II" as the dictation source:

PowerMic II set-up

b) If you want to add the PowerMic II to an existing user profile in which another microphone was being used, you can change the sound "source" for the profile by going to Dragon > Open User > Source > New and selecting the PowerMic II. This will work with both Dragon 9.5 and Dragon 10 and, again, the PowerMic II must be attached to a USB port in order for it to show up as an option.

Recommended for Dragon Naturallyspeaking & Macspeech Voice & Speech Recognition Software. Dictaphone Powermic II Dragon Microphone 0POWM2N-004-D1001, 0POWM2N-004 (Dragon Medical, Legal, Professional & Preferred)