Dragon Medical One Training - Manage formatting

Customizing personal settings in Dragon Medical Practice Edition let users set unique preferences for their workflow, including contractions, how numbers are written, and date formatting. Those same kinds of preferences are available in Dragon Medical One through Manage Formatting. This tutorial assumes you already have Dragon Medical One installed and can open the DragonBar help window.

With your microphone activated, say "Manage Formatting". If you are already in the help menu, you can also open it from the menu with a few mouse clicks.

Once the help window is open, click the hamburger menu in the top left to open the hidden menu. Then click "Manage Formatting" at the bottom of the list.

Once that menu is expanded, you will see these categories: - Dates - Times - Numbers - Measurements - Vertebrae - Numbered Lists - Words and sentences

Choose whether the system writes dates as you say them or converts them to a standard format. - Disabled - As spoken - Write the month as a word - Write the month as digits - YYYY-MM-DD date format

Define how the system writes times. - Define the character separating the hours and minutes - Write "o'clock" - Write "hours" in military time

Define how the system writes numbers. - Write the following numbers as digits - Write large numbers - Write the following ordinal numbers as digits

Define how the system writes measurements. - Areas and volumes - Micro prefix - Time units - Non-metric US and UK units - Other units

Define how the system writes vertebra expressions. To avoid ambiguity, say the comma in lists of vertebrae or spinal nerves.

Use Numbered Lists to control how Dragon Medical One formats numbered list output in your notes. Open this category in Manage Formatting and adjust the options to match how you want lists to appear in your EHR.

Define how the system handles capitalization, spacing, and wording in sentences. - Start new lines with a capital letter - Write the word after a colon - Number of spaces after punctuation marks - Expand contractions - Automatic punctuation