What dictation software do doctors use?

Doctors mostly dictate with Dragon Medical One, Nuance's cloud product that plugs into EHRs like Epic and Cerner and understands clinical vocabulary out of the box. Hospitals standardize on it, and Microsoft's Dragon Copilot now drafts notes from the patient conversation itself.

How medical professionals record their dictations has shifted from the old two-step, recorder then transcriptionist, to speaking directly into the chart in real time.

Smaller practices without enterprise budgets increasingly use general AI dictation apps with custom vocabulary for drug names and terminology. That covers notes, referral letters, and patient emails, though anything touching records still needs a HIPAA-appropriate setup.

For clinic-grade speech recognition outside the EHR, see this medical voice recognition option.