In a recent comment by Tom Hamilton, he gave a nice review of a wireless microphone that can be used with Dragon Naturally Speaking Medical. I figured I’d been covering enough EMR politics and implementation lately that it was about time to mingle a little bit of technical content in the middle.

I’ve been told a number of times that if you want to use Dragon Naturally Speaking medical, then finding a high quality microphone is absolutely essential to a quality voice recognition experience. Check out Tom’s review of the Samson Stage 5 Wireless microphone. Wireless is definitely the future.

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We’ve just completed Phase 3 testing of the new Samson Stage 5 wireless microphone [$99 on Amazon] and you can read our complete review by clicking Samson Stage 5 Review but the short version is that the new Samson Stage 5 wireless VHF microphone combo includes both a lapel microphone and a headset microphone, costs $99-$105 and is as accurate as our best (starting at $115) theBoom “O” [$149.99 on Amazon] and $145 Sennheiser ME3 wired microphones [$135.83 on Amazon] which cost more and are not wireless. The Stage 5 even includes a three-year warranty. With the exception of end users who require extreme portability, we can’t imagine why anyone would want to pay extra for a wired microphone with a one or two-year warranty. Now everyone can afford to cut the cord!

KnowBrainer, Inc. Support Staff – Tom Hamilton
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Thanks Tom for the review.

Check out the following prices for the various versions of DNS on Amazon:


I’m still looking around for the best location to buy Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical.

I’ve been thinking a bit about the best way to fill out the details of my EMR, EHR and HIPAA wiki and in particular the EMR and EHR matrix of companies.

I’ve recently been thinking that I just need to take an EMR company a week and send an email to someone in their company asking them to answer a list of questions. Many of the questions will be similar to an EMR RFP (Request for Proposal), but hopefully a little more general than might be included in an official EMR RFP. Then, I’d post the response to this site and use the information to update the EMR and EHR matrix.

2 questions:

1. What questions should I ask every EMR company? (I have some ideas, but I love getting feedback)
2. Which EMR companies should I start with or which EMR companies would like to participate?

In case you’re wondering, I think that my goal would be to help users interested in quickly reviewing information about EMR companies without having to talk to every EMR salesperson and then be on their list for the rest of eternity.