Speaking normally into a microphone, a physician can create clinical documentation that appears instantly on the screen of a desktop or laptop computer. Voice macros or customized paragraphs that can be inserted with a voice command, and "templates" or customized "boilerplate" documents with voice navigation features, make the process of dictating after a patient visit faster and easier.

Since documents are instantly available, up-to-the-minute patient reports can be faxed to a referring physician in seconds, without the delays or costs of medical transcription.

MD Dictate solves many of the problems that have made the use of earlier voice recognition systems in a medical environment impractical. About twenty minutes of up-front training of the system achieves reasonable accuracy levels. Accuracy increases daily thereafter with short training sessions, and as documents are dictated and corrected.

MD Dictate is a Windows application that runs in a stand-alone or a networked environment. Files can be stored on a common server.