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c) Dictation now is directed into the Dragon dictation box, even while the OnePacs Workstation is the active application:

Choice of microphone

Any standard voice-recognition grade microphone will work with either of the above described dictation methods in OnePacs.

For users using the Dragon Medical Professional package, Nuance offers a microphone with user-programmable buttons, which can control dictation functions from the handset. This device is called the PowerMic and is described here:

http://shop.nuance.com/store/nuanceus/en_US/pd/productID.139321300
http://speechrecsolutions.com/microphones_dictaphone.html


A variety of other microphones are available from a number of on-line vendors, including:

http://speechrecsolutions.com/
http://www.speechtechnology.com/microphones/
http://www.emicrophones.com/

One vendor offers an online guide to microphone selection:
http://speechrecsolutions.com/microphone_selection_guide.htm

A popular option for users who prefer hands-free dictation is the Buddy Flamingo stand-alone microphone:
http://speechrecsolutions.com/microphones_buddy.html

Legacy Voice Recording and Manual Transcription (deprecated)


Note
titleDeprecated Feature

The manual dictation/transcription feature has been deprecated because this feature depends upon an in-browser Java applet, and all major browsers either have already, or have announced that they soon will, end support for in-browser Java applets. Accordingly, this feature is deprecated and the availability of this feature is not guaranteed going forward.

Alternatives to this feature include either using the proofreading workflow in conjunction with OnePacs Voice Recognition which provides the ability to save voice dictation audio files.


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The Dictation feature of OnePacs allows users with browsers that support Java applets to dictate directly into a OnePacs reporting window. When this is done, the voice recording files (.wav files) will be directly attached to the cases for which dictations were performed.

Users for whom the “Dictate” privilege has been assigned in OnePacs will have a “Dictate report…” option available in the menu displayed upon right-clicking on the case being reported:

This will bring up a new window, running a voice recording Java applet, set to record audio in from the currently selected default audio input device. This is compatible with Windows and Mac OS X. (This likely also works properly in a Linux environment.)

The on-screen controls for starting and stopping recording, playback, and pausing recording or playback are self-explanatory. The Java applet also attempts to recognize any installed speech-input devices and may recognize the on-device controls for these functions as well.

When dictation is completed, stop dictation and click the “Upload Dictation” button. The voice recording, as a .wav file, will be uploaded to OnePacs and the file will be attached to the case. The case will acquire the worklist status of “Dictated”, with the following status icon: .  The case will be automatically be reassigned back to the radiologist that performed that last dictation.

Listening to OnePacs Dictations

The following system permissions will enable those users who also have “view” access to the facility which performed the study to access study dictations: “Access or upload study files”, “Dictate” or “Transcribe”.

When a dictation has been performed for a case, users with permission to listen to dictations for the case will see a “listen to dictation” icon  among the toolbar icons for the case in question:

Upon clicking on the “listen to dictation” icon, the dictation file will download to the logged in user's local PC, from which point it can be played in the default program configured for playback of audio files.

Alternatively, the voice dictation file may also be retrieved from the study files folder for the case in question.

Transcribing Reports

Users with the “transcribe reports” permission one OnePacs may enter transcribed report texts for cases, and save these reports as report drafts on OnePacs. Upon so doing, the case acquires a worklist status of “Transcribed”, with the following worklist status icon:

The reading radiologist can then open the report draft, review the transcription, edit as necessary, and finalize the report.

Choice of microphone

Any standard voice-recognition grade microphone will work with either of the above described dictation methods in OnePacs

.

For users using the Dragon Medical Professional package, Nuance offers a microphone with user-programmable buttons, which can control dictation functions from the handset. This device is called the PowerMic and is described here:

http://shop.nuance.com/store/nuanceus/en_US/pd/productID.139321300
http://speechrecsolutions.com/microphones_dictaphone.html

A variety of other microphones are available from a number of on-line vendors, including:

http://speechrecsolutions.com/
http://www.speechtechnology.com/microphones/
http://www.emicrophones.com/

One vendor offers an online guide to microphone selection:
http://speechrecsolutions.com/microphone_selection_guide.htm
A popular option for users who prefer hands-free dictation is the Buddy Flamingo stand-alone microphone:
http://speechrecsolutions.com/microphones_buddy.html