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VV 10.5 vs DNS for medical dictations
Submitted by geogriggs on Sat, 08/18/2007 - 21:19.
My daughter and I, both physicians, have been happily using VV 10 and then 10.5 when it arrived for all of our medical transcriptions since about 2001. We have it fairly well tuned up with templates, macros and all is going smoothly.
I am troubled about VV not being Vista compatible, and by a comment I read today about no further support (presumably from Nuance) for VV in a year or so. I'm wondering if we need to make a switch. We are both using Windows XP Pro on IBM Thinkpads T41 and T42 for the two of us respectively and transcription speed is quite good, with acceptable accuracy. My only complaints are a few words that it regularly misses (it never gets "level" correct even with careful diction), and number formatting whenever using the correction window.
Is it the sense of you regular posters that we will need to move to DNS any time soon? I hate to go through the pain of redoing all templates and dictation macros (I'm assuming that they are available in DNS). How soon do you feel we will have to make the switch? Is medical dictation good with DNS? If so, which version with what add on vocabulary is needed? I'd appreciate any thoughts or comments regarding what the future holds. I'm guessing I will be working for an additional 10 years, and my daughter more than 30. Sometime during that timeframe we will probably need to transition to a full EHR (electronic health record) and those systems are mostly DNS compatible.
To-date, all the pundits
To-date, all the pundits have said that ViaVoice will not work with Vista. I am still trying to find a guinea-pig with Vista that will let me install ViaVoice to confirm whether or not this is so. My son was supposed to have installed Vista, but he simply has not yet had the time to get round to it. So I am still in the dark in this regard.
Personally, I'm sticking to XP for the moment. When I have to get a new computer, it will probably have Vista. I intend then to try it out, but if I am not happy my computer supplier promised to put in XP, if I cannot install the XP image from my existing computer.
I would hate to have to give up ViaVoice, since I've been happily using it since 1998. I have to say that I prefer it to DNS, and like you, would prefer not to have to recreate all my templates and macros!
Quentin