Dragon Medical One
Capture the complete patient story
Capture the complete patient story
Creating voice-enabled clinical documentation has never been easier. Consistently ranked #1 by clinicians, Dragon Medical One is designed to make accurate documentation effortless, surrounding you with intelligent support from pre-charting through post-encounter.
- Immediate 99% accuracy
- Document in half the time
- 200+ EHR integrations
- Stay focused on your patients
- Automate time-consuming tasks
- Get started quickly and easily
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Please note: If you are employed by or an independent contractor of a hospital or health system, contact your IT team to confirm that your organization is not part of an existing Dragon Medical One site license or contact us to verify.
Nuance Dragon Medical One is a conversational AI workflow assistant and documentation companion
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A budget-friendly speech platform that works with your wallet, Dragon Medical One traditionally pays for itself within a few patient encounters. Tell us about your practice to instantly see the potential time savings and financial impact of Dragon Medical One.
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00Give Dragon Medical One dictation a try
Follow the quick steps below to dictate to your desktop (dictation functionality is not available to mobile visitors):
Dragon Medical One pairs seamlessly with the included PowerMic Mobile app to ensure the highest level of dictation accuracy. So while your own implementation of Dragon Medical One will ultimately be faster and more accurate (this demo accesses your laptop's internal microphone which may not provide optimal audio), the exercise below will still give you a sense for the ease of use and expert recognition of medical terminology. Please do not dictate PHI as this data will not be protected in the same way as Dragon Medical One. Refer to Nuance privacy policies.
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Click 'Allow access to the microphone' button.
If using a built-in microphone, sit directly in front of your computer for best results.
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Click the microphone icon to green and begin dictating.
Dictate punctuation, by saying ‘comma’ or ‘period,’ as auto‑punctuation is not enabled.*
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You can begin dictating now.
Below are some dictation and editing examples, but feel free to use your own scenarios. Click the microphone icon to switch it off.
Go beyond dictation with a comprehensive clinical documentation companion
Dragon Medical One combines proven, personalized medical dictation capabilities with next-level architecture that is fast, flexible, and future-proof. Advanced speech with natural language commands promotes a hands-free, efficient approach to documenting care before, during, and after the patient visit, allowing clinicians to decide how and where documentation gets done.
Ranked #1 Best in KLAS for 5 consecutive years
Named Best in KLAS: Software & Services award for 5 consecutive years, 2021‑2025, Dragon Medical One is secure, trusted, and proven.
Documentation done better with sophisticated speech recognition
Discover why more than 550,000 users rely on Dragon Medical for a more productive, personalized documentation experience.
Streamline your workflow
Save time with AutoTexts, allowing clinicians to use voice commands to automatically insert commonly used phrases or templates into their clinical notes.
Eliminate clicks
Shortcut repetitive tasks and enrich your workflow experience with custom voice skills. Natural language commands save time and reduce clicks, increasing quality time spent with patients.
Navigate by voice
Bring ease to common routines by automating tasks like moving through patient charts, placing orders, and signing notes. Plus, customize shortcuts for personal emails, Microsoft Office documents, or complex searches.
Increase productivity
Capture the complete patient story in less time at the office, at home, or on the go with a hands-free documentation solution that keeps pace with your busiest days.
Focus on patient care
Give patients more attention while capturing the notes you need with a flexible solution that lets you document your way—pre, during, and post patient encounter.
Comprehensive implementation services
Designed to help you through every step of implementation, the one time service fee for a Medical One license includes Nuance Certified Professional Services for each new user.
- Assisted installation/verification of install
- Application of custom settings and extensions
- Voice profile setup and options configuration
- Guided pairing with PowerMic Mobile
- Review of Dragon basics, navigation and editing
- Advanced feature review for experienced users
- Q & A with friendly, certified Dragon trainers
- EHR integration review
- Designated settings and extensions
- Custom template & command recommendations
- Migration of end-user words & commands (where applicable)
Achieve unmatched outcomes with Dragon Medical One
of physicians recommend Dragon Medical One
freed per clinician per shift to spend with patients
saved for every hour dictated
ranked #1 Best in KLAS for 5 consecutive years
Conquer the clicks with Dragon Medical One
Empower clinicians to create comprehensive clinical documentation and more naturally navigate workflows using just their voice.
Dictate notes instantly and accurately with no voice profile training. Best-in-class speech recognition enables you to capture the complete patient story correctly with automatic accent detection and audio calibration.
Format, correct, and navigate notes quickly and easily using natural language commands designed to optimize workflows.
Save time with intuitive speech recognition smart enough to finish your sentences — and punctuate them perfectly without verbal prompts.
Dictate directly into the application of your choice or use a dictation box to access your personalizations and transfer text between apps. Anchor dictation allows you to maintain focus as you move between multiple apps.
Included with Dragon Medical One, PowerMic Mobile transforms any workstation into a dictation station, freeing clinicians to capture notes using their smartphones as secure wireless microphones.
Save time and streamline repetitive data entry by automating how commonly used content and information is added to clinical notes. Customized shortcuts can be shared across users, departments, and organizations.
Is your organization expanding?
Larger deployments of Dragon Medical One include access to even more features, functionality and support.
With PowerMic Mobile, EHR workflows work for clinicians
Dictate, edit, and navigate the EHR from anywhere
Doing rounds shouldn’t mean hunting for dedicated workstations. Included with Dragon Medical One and essential to clinicians on the move, the PowerMic Mobile app turns your smartphone into a secure, wireless microphone, enabling you to use any workstation as a dictation hub. Create consistent, accurate documentation without breaking stride using a flexible, scalable platform that works with virtual desktops on your rounds and at home.
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A solution that scales with your organization
Whatever your organization’s size and wherever you’re headed in the future, Dragon Medical One can adapt to meet your changing needs. For smaller practices, it’s easy to buy licenses online using our intuitive shop account to manage and administer licenses, users, and ongoing requirements.
As your organization expands, or for deployments across larger healthcare systems, we’ve got you covered. Larger deployments of Dragon Medical One include access to even more features, functionality and comprehensive support. This includes centralized user administration for enterprise usage with network installation and deployment of customizations (such as AutoTexts or custom words) to all users. Additionally, organizations can access self‑service analytics to track KPI trends and optimize performance with actionable intelligence.
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Contact usTestimonials and use cases
Hear from Dragon Medical One users as they share their experience using industry‑leading speech recognition in their everyday workflow.
Peachtree Spine reduces physician burnout (Play a video)
Michael Greene, MD of Peachtree Spine uses Dragon Medical One Speech Recognition to spend more time with his patients and less time documenting clinical notes.
ProActive Pain and Neurology, LLC documents complex patient histories (Play a video)
Dennis Dey, MD, PHD of ProActive Pain and Neurology, LLC documents complex patient histories and speeds documentation turnaround times with Dragon Medical One.
Forsyth Foot & Ankle Associates improves the clinician experience (Play a video)
Michael McGlamry, MD, DPM of Forsyth Foot and Ankle Associates improves the clinician experience and reduces documentation costs with Dragon Medical One.
System requirements
Operating systems
- 32-bit: Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Make sure that the latest service pack is always applied.
- 64-bit: Microsoft Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019. Make sure that the latest service pack is always applied.
- Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 (or higher) is required. In Microsoft Windows 8.1, 10 and 11, you can only use Dragon Medical One in the desktop environment, the Microsoft design language-based user interface (Start screen) is not supported.
Processor speed
- Minimum: 1.7 Ghz
- Recommended: 2.8 Ghz
RAM
- Minimum: 512 MB
- Recommended: 2 GB
EMR/EHR
- Dragon® Medical One is compatible with virtually all EMR/EHR systems running on Windows 10 and Windows 11. If you can type into your system using your keyboard, then you can dictate too, using Dragon.
Microphones
- While we strongly recommend PowerMic Mobile or PowerMic 4, you can use any microphone that can record audio data in 16 kHz, 16 bit mono format. This includes headsets, Nuance PowerMic Mobile, and PowerMic 4.
FAQs
Dragon Medical One is a conversational AI documentation companion that provides secure, convenient, and comprehensive clinical documentation support from pre-charting through post encounter.
Dragon Medical One empowers clinicians with next-level voice capabilities that aid with documentation workflows.
Dragon Medical One has 99% accuracy levels with automatic accent detection and audio calibration.
The Nuance PowerMic Mobile app is included with the purchase of a Dragon Medical One license. PowerMic Mobile turns any workstation into a dictation station, giving clinicians the freedom to document notes using their smartphone as a secure wireless microphone. Optimized for use with Dragon Medical One, PowerMic Mobile offers a flexible, scalable platform for greater mobility and consistent documentation at the hospital, clinic, and home.
No. Dragon Medical One transcribes real-time dictation and places recognized text at the cursor location.
No. Dragon Medical One is intended for a single speaker, as each license recognizes one voice profile.
No, Dragon Medical One is not designed to read back to users.
No, each Dragon Medical One license only recognizes one voice.
Implementation
No. Best-in-class speech recognition capabilities allow you to dictate notes immediately, without the need for voice profile training.
You can get up and running with Dragon Medical One on the day that you receive it by dictating directly into your PowerMic or headset. Nuance offers quick reference guides, getting started materials, and learning videos in the Nuance Dragon Medical One Learning Center.
Licenses are assigned on a per-user basis (not per-device), so Dragon Medical One can be installed on as many computers as you'd like. You can easily move from one workstation to another by logging in and out of Dragon Medical One, however, licenses cannot be shared between users.
Pricing
1-year term: monthly billing is $99/month or $1,188 upfront
2-year term: monthly billing is $89/month or $2,136 upfront
3-year term: monthly billing is $79/month or $2,844 upfront
The Nuance PowerMic Mobile app is included when you purchase a license of Dragon Medical One.
The one-time service fee for a Dragon Medical One license is designed to help you through every step of implementation and provides each new user a 1:1 session with a Nuance-certified resource. This session covers a comprehensive set of implementation services, including the installation and setup of Dragon Medical One and PowerMic Mobile; training and review, including an introduction to using Dragon Medical One, advanced tips, and Q&A with professional Dragon Medical One trainers; and workflow consultation, such as a review of Dragon Medical One's integration with your EHR workflows and assistance mastering command recommendations.
You can buy up to 5 licenses of Dragon Medical One from the Nuance eCommerce store. If you wish to purchase more than 5 licenses, please contact us.
If you are employed by or an independent contractor of a hospital or health system, please contact your internal IT team to confirm that your specific organization is not part of an existing Dragon Medical One site license or contact us to verify.
Technical requirements & Compatibility
No. Dragon Medical One is a native Windows application; it cannot be installed and used directly on a macOS-based computer.
Please refer to our installation manual on page 9 here.
Dragon Medical One is installed on a computer. Users can then use their mobile phone as a microphone via PowerMic Mobile.
Dragon Medical One supports US-English only for licenses purchased online via our eCommerce store in the US. +
No. To access additional languages or to purchase Dragon Medical One outside the US, contact us.
While we strongly recommend PowerMic Mobile or PowerMic 4, you can use any microphone that can record audio data in 16 kHz, 16 bit mono format. This includes headsets, Nuance PowerMic Mobile, and PowerMic 4.
Dragon Medical One works with the Microsoft Office Suite.
Yes, Dragon Medical One works with Windows 10 and 11.
Yes, an internet connection is required.
Training & Support
Each purchase of a Dragon Medical One license includes a one-time service fee to help you through every step of implementation. This covers a comprehensive set of implementation services, including the installation and setup of Dragon Medical One and PowerMic Mobile; training and review, including an introduction to using Dragon Medical One, advanced tips, and Q&A with professional Dragon Medical One trainers; and workflow consultation, such as a review of Dragon Medical One's integration with your EHR workflows and assistance mastering command recommendations.
There are also documentation and training modules available within the application (dictate “Show Training” when logged into Dragon Medical One to see all training modules).
You can also visit the Nuance Dragon Medical One Learning Center for access to additional resources, training videos, and end-user documentation.
Please contact the Nuance Support Center at (800)-833-7776
You can access a help menu from the DragonBar within the application by saying "Open Training" into your microphone. Additionally, for access to further resources, you can visit the Nuance Dragon Medical One Learning Center.
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