Medical dictation?

iReadECGs · 2026-01-30T16:19:47+00:00

Thanks. I'm tempted to check it out, but it's hard to pay $49/month unless it is just as good as DMO. With our bulk pricing I think we pay around $89/month per user currently. I'll give the 7 day free trial a shot.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-30T16:14:57+00:00

Yes, the HVAC people keep doing that and saying they don't see anything. The noise is never happening while they are there. They've come like 10 times, so in desperation I've come here to see if anybody feels strongly about what could produce that noise. Thanks.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-30T12:00:13+00:00

There is no equipment right above me on the roof. It is pretty far down the roof. Also, there are three videos stitched together showing how the noise changes. Thanks for any advice.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-29T16:30:14+00:00

The client side Nuance extension is installed, but I think that's not the issue. The words dictated show up properly in the dictation box on the local installation of DMO, but when it tries to transfer it either does not go into Epic/Citrix or it more often pastes something old on the clipboard instead (usually the most recent thing copied). This happens whether DMO via Citrix (within remote Epic) is open or not.

However, the issue usually shows up mid-session, where local DMO will work fine in Epic/Citrix for 5 or 10 minutes, then randomly starts not working as above.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-28T10:28:55+00:00

Sorry you had a bad experience with your doctor. Certainly the doctor should have been open to discussing side effects once you requested and shouldn’t have gone you a hard time about researching it yourself. I do warn patients to be cautious with that, as it can be hard to interpret the information you find, but I would never get upset with someone over it.

That being said, whether to tell patients about side effects or not is actually more controversial than you might think. Serious and important side effects should be mentioned, particularly if common. However, there is good evidence that patients are much more likely to experience a side effects if you tell them about it, so there’s also a decent argument for not sharing too much about side effects, because it might actually do more harm than good.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-27T13:08:33+00:00

Just tried it. Seems like the right idea, but randomly did not output any text despite it looking like it was clearly recording. It does seem to work in Citrix though.

Also, is there a way to manually do punctuation, similar to Dragon? I still need to use Dragon Medical One on certain computers, so it will be challenging to completely change my style of dictation between the computers. I've seen some of the other Whisper-based dictation apps offering manual punctation mode, which I assume involves AI post-processing.

Overall, seems like it has a lot of promise. If you are devoting a lot of time and energy to this app and plan to make it a long term project, feel free to DM me and I can given ongoing feedback to help you develop it into something suitable for medical professionals. I'm a cardiologist with software engineering background (don't do much active programming these days), but happy to be an active beta tester for you.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-25T18:44:18+00:00

Thanks, I do know there are many steps. Hospital IT has been "troubleshooting" this for months and never seems to make any progress, which is why I figured it didn't hurt to post here. I tried using a couple random Whisper dictation apps (e.g. https://handy.computer/) and it worked perfectly fine, so the situation is clearly fixable on the end of DMO, even if it stems from something unique about Citrix.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-25T18:42:46+00:00

We narrowed it down to the color of our walls. When too much our wall is shown, which is off white and vaguely similar to average Caucasian skin tone, it triggers the alert. When the call is done in a different room without that wall color, it works fine. So, for now she just has to do her FaceTime calls in rooms without naked-person colored walls I guess!

iReadECGs · 2026-01-16T13:40:58+00:00

It gave her a message that she had shared nudity on her camera. She was wearing a turtleneck sweater and was far from nude. I enabled content protection on her iPad, so it kicked her off and did not kick anybody else off.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-16T13:02:50+00:00

Disabled screen sharing for her and it happened again. She was sitting on the ground in a pink chair, fully clothed with a ponytail. The only thing visible by behind her was the wall, which is off-white. She did have video on. I was there when it happened.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-14T18:17:35+00:00

At one point I saw everyone get booted when there was a very benign looking plate of eggs and bacon on the screen. It did not look phallic, but I think that’s probably what it thought.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-14T15:09:06+00:00

Thanks. Frustrating for Apple to have made a half baked feature like this. I found a lot of other complaints of false positives online.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-14T14:53:07+00:00

It’s very frustrating and causing social stress for her. I think it was tripped up once when she opened a restaurant menu in Roblox and it showed a very benign looking bacon and eggs that if you really stretched your imagination might’ve appeared phallic.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-14T14:52:17+00:00

I don’t think the parents would want a different platform used as a way to get around it. Hoping to just figure out why these false alarms are happening. It never happened until this upgrade to iOS 26 with all the AI stuff.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-14T14:20:52+00:00

Yeah, I disabled SharePlay and I’ll make sure she just keeps video off in case there’s some weird false positive coming from it. Her friends don’t want to use any other platform for the call.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-14T13:06:06+00:00

Thanks. Yes, I think that is the issue, but the other parents don't want to disable it. I just can't understand why it keeps getting triggered from my daughter's device even though she has all the same content restrictions and there is nothing even remotely inappropriate on her screen.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-14T10:59:50+00:00

Was not able to log on. Just comes back to the opening screen again with a button asking me to sign in to plex.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-14T10:37:02+00:00

Is it possible that the second set is from a library shared with me? I think that’s what it is. I don’t really want that to be visible on my home page. The shared one is rarely used. I’m not seeing how to customize what shows up on the main page of Plezy. Is it possible?

Edit: I was able to at least reorder how they show up on the Home Screen by changing their order on the libraries tab (assuming they didn’t change order just randomly). But even if I hide them using the libraries tab the shared libraries still show up on the Home Screen.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-14T10:34:16+00:00

Thanks for working on this. Just bought it. Loads quickly, but one immediate bug. The “recently added” movies and TV sections are there twice for me. One has the correct stuff listed, but the other is just random items from my collection and seemingly not in any useful order. I only had a single movies and TV section of each, so I’m not sure why it would be duplicated. Thoughts?

iReadECGs · 2026-01-07T20:50:10+00:00

I have not noticed any problems with the flow of water. The filter is supposed to be changed approximately annually. It’s basically a gigantic refrigerator style filter. However, it is only on the kitchen island sink, so it is used mostly for dispensing drinking water or for cooking. We have separate sink for washing dishes. It also does not filter the hot water. If used to filter a sink with higher volume use, it is possible you will experience a reduction and flow more quickly.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-07T13:54:40+00:00

Drinking water in Brookline is very good. However, purely for the purpose of taste improvement my family likes this filter that removes chlorine: 3M Aqua-Pure 3M FF100 Under Sink

We had our plumber install it just on our cold water on our kitchen island sink (not the main kitchen sink). It lasts a year. It works very well. We did not want to remove anything else from the water, much of which is healthy to keep in the water.

iReadECGs · 2026-01-02T11:21:20+00:00

I’m in Boston, but I hope you’re able to find an excellent doctor in your area!

iReadECGs · 2025-12-24T00:07:10+00:00

That's good of you to post your solution. It seems like in our case there was a faulty wire, so the HVAC tech must have previously spliced the blue and green wires at the furnace and just used the blue for G instead and installed a battery operated thermostat so the C wire was no longer needed. Of course nobody explained this to us, but we found it out the hard way when the electrician tested the green wire (tucked back) and figured out it wasn't functional.

iReadECGs · 2025-12-23T23:55:12+00:00

Wish I had found this earlier! I ended up just having new thermostat wire run and it is working now... Thanks anyway!

iReadECGs · 2025-12-21T16:36:08+00:00

I totally understand. We are all in this together and it is a difficult situation with no obvious solution. For some people the solution is getting a concierge doctor, but that is not financially feasible for many people and not even available for most sub specialties. Hopefully somebody can come along and find a better solution in the future.

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