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Add, Edit, and Delete Custom Words in Dictation

To ensure accurate dictation results, you can add custom words to your speech profile and save them in categories, such as person names, location names, medicines, procedures, and diagnoses.

For example, you can replace similar-sounding provider names with different spellings, such as Carter and Karter. You can also add abbreviations, such as CHF, to appear in the transcription when you dictate congestive heart failure.

  1. Open NextGen® Mobile.
  2. Open a dictation job.
  3. Select Record Dictation, and then begin dictating.
  4. To stop or pause the dictation, select Stop.
    The dictation text is processed, and the refined note is displayed.
  5. Double-click the misrecognized word, and then select Dictionary from the menu.
    Add New Word opens and Word to Replace displays the selected-misrecognized word.
  6. In Replacement Word, enter the replacement word.
  7. Select a category, and then select Done.
    The Person Names category is selected by default.
    The misrecognized word is replaced with the custom word in the dictated note.

    The custom word is added to the list in the dictionary. During dictation, the custom word automatically replaces the misrecognized word.

    For example, if you replace melena with Melen-A, whenever you use the word melena during dictation, the word Melan-A appears.

  8. To search for a word or view words in different categories saved in Dictionary, select Dictionary Settings.
  9. Optional: To edit a word, in Dictionary, swipe the word from right to left, select the edit button to make necessary changes, and then select Done.
  10. Optional: To delete a word, in Dictionary, swipe the word from right to left, select the delete button, and then select Delete.