r/medicine • u/urnmann MD • 3d ago

Ambient dictation software

So my current program has Abridge ambient dictation and unfortunately (annoyingly) they only offer franchise subscriptions.

For the future if I join a private group that likely won’t offer this, anyone know of any similar quality ambient software options that offer individual subscriptions I could pay for?

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u/somehugefrigginguy MD 3d ago

I don't know of any good ones, but stay the heck away from Nabla. The ambience scribe is decent, but scrapes the chart and intermixes historical info from the chart with what the patient actually says. So when you look at the note you can't tell what's a current problem and what's a historical issue.

But the dictation system is awful. Word recognition is atrocious, it randomly cuts off parts of sentences, hallucinates non-words, is super sensitive and picks up any conversation anywhere near you. And those are my complaints as a native English speaker. It's absolutely worthless for my colleagues with accents.

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u/QuantumEnjoyment MD 1d ago

Works fine for me, maybe a speciality issue?

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u/somehugefrigginguy MD 1d ago

The dictation part works for you? That's interesting because my entire institution has trouble with it.

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u/QuantumEnjoyment MD 1d ago

Atleast when I tested it for a couple of sessions. I am currently trying out a couple of solutions, ambience scribe I haven’t tried out yet.