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Create, Update, and Delete Custom Words to the Personal Dictionary

Before you begin

Ensure that you are a NextGen® Mobile Plus and NextGen® Speech-to-Text user.

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. On the menu bar, select Settings.
    The Settings view opens.
  3. Select the dictator you want to add custom words for.
    Edit Dictator opens.
  4. Select Dictionary.
    Dictionary opens displaying all categories. You can search for a word or select the necessary category to view the desired words.
    All categories dictionary list

  5. Select Add New.
    Add New Word opens.
  6. In Word to Replace, enter the word to replace.
    For example, enter the word melena.
  7. In Replacement Word, enter the replacement word.
    For example, enter the word Melan-A.
  8. Select a category, and then select Done.
    The Person Names category is selected by default.

    During dictation, when you use the word melena, the word Melan-A appears.

    The word is added to the list.
  9. Optional: To edit a word, do the following:
    1. Swipe the word from right to left, and then select Edit button.
    2. On Edit Word, make the necessary changes, and then select Done.
  10. Optional: To delete a word, swipe the word from right to left, select Delete button, and then select Delete.