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Dictate with NextGen® Direct-to-Desktop

Before you begin

You must turn on Auto Launch Speech Box in Settings > Edit Dictator to automatically open the speech box when you connect to NextGen® Direct-to-Desktop. By default, the Auto Launch Speech Box option is turned off.

After pairing your desktop with NextGen® Mobile, you can use NextGen® Direct-to-Desktop to dictate into NextGen® Enterprise EHR, Speech Box, Notepad, or Microsoft Word®. You can place the cursor where you want to enter data, and start dictation in NextGen® Mobile.

  1. Open NextGen® Mobile.
  2. On Hub, select D2D icon.
    If Auto Launch Speech Box in Edit Dictator is turned off, you can open Speech Box manually with the Open Speech Box voice command. You can also open Speech Box from your desktop by selecting Open Speech Box on NextGen D2D.
    Dictation and Speech Box open.
    Dictation view

    Speech box

  3. Start dictating to Speech Box.
  4. After completion of dictation, review the dictated note and make necessary changes.
  5. To copy text to NextGen® Enterprise EHR, in Speech Box, select Copy Text, and then paste the text.