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Dr. Annie Liau Fui Vun, Consultant Pediatrician in Columbia Asia Hospital
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Answers to common questions about dictation for psychiatrists and behavioral therapists.
Yes, using Dictate is fairly simple. Press, hold, dictate. Straightforward and natural, nothing new to adjust to your daily routine. Remain fully engaged with your patient in the session without disruptions caused by time usually spent on tool setup.
The paperwork in psychiatric practice constantly moves. What you used to type on the keyboard, your voice can now cover. Instruct Heidi what to do with your notes. Draft or edit text in other fields like search bars, message replies and emails. All done with Heidi Dictate, in or outside Heidi desktop. Clock out of your shift without needing to play catch-up.
Select the key for dictation with Heidi on your computer. Head to Settings, and set Dictate to a shortcut button that works for you. If it doesn’t work, easily replace it. Put your cursor where you want to work and then press the shortcut to start, stop, and keep dictating without breaking your momentum.
Place your cursor on the space you need to fill or edit, hold your key, then state a verbal command, like “New paragraph.” Reformat your referral letters and care plans carefully without spamming the backspace.
Clinical vocabulary, already built in. Since you start dictating, notes appear accurately; no need to manually edit specific medications and terms like aripiprazole, every time. Dictate your referral letters to the next provider and send them all in one go, in the same workflow.
A few words from you expands in the field. Place your cursor in the space that needs filling, say abbreviations as cue phrases like “ADHD” then Dictate drops in the full text. Your patient histories and clinical letters become complete the first time you generate them. Save both your time and mental energy for care practice, not for after-hours up paperwork.
Dictate keeps track of the speed at which you dictate and compares that against time you would have spent typing. Practice gains become more measurable: figure out where Dictate is helping you out the most, from narrative histories to safety plans.
Dictate’s basic features are available at no cost. Install Heidi’s Desktop app, allow microphone and system permissions, then start dictating. Jumpstart your voice-first workflow with Heidi Dictate on desktop today.
Here is a short tutorial for how Dictate works in practice. See how it starts and handles psychiatric terminology. Where your cursor is, your words will be.
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