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I have used speech recognition for my medical charting for decades. Not all that long ago, we switched from Dragon Network Enterprise to Dragon Medical One (DMO). Overall it has been a significant improvement. DMO integrates with electronic medical record systems such as Cerner or Epic at the server level. This brings better recognition and […]

Less is More —Mies van der Rohe In high school English class, many of my generation were forced to study a book about writing known as “Strunk and White.” Compared to many other books we were forced to read, it had many advantages. It was short. It was to-the-point. It was full of pithy sayings, […]

Icons and Pedagogic Vectors We all have trouble remembering a program’s graphical icons. The International Standards Organisation (ISO) has a standard for icons – an icon must be interpreted correctly by 2/3 of  test subjects. In usability and error-prevention terms, a 1/3 error rate is poor, but reality is even worse – an experimental study […]