Dragon Medical One
Cloud-based clinical speech recognition for clinical documentation.
Cloud-based clinical speech recognition for clinical documentation.
Best for physicians and clinicians authoring clinical documentation in real time inside the EHR. Pricing: contact sales.
What it is
Dragon Medical One is Nuance's flagship clinical speech-recognition product, now part of Microsoft after the Nuance acquisition. The product runs in real time inside Epic, Cerner, athenaHealth, and other major EHRs, transcribing physician dictation directly into clinical notes. Dragon Medical One supports specialty-specific vocabularies, automated SOAP-note structuring, and HIPAA-compliant deployment. It is the dominant clinical-documentation speech tool in US healthcare, deployed across major health systems. Pricing is enterprise contract via Nuance/Microsoft Healthcare sales. Pricing and product details listed here were last reviewed by Neugence on 2026-05-12; check the vendor site for current values before quoting.
Watch out for: Healthcare-specific; enterprise sales motion; tied to EHR deployments.
Install / use
nuance.com — Contact salesFeatures
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | Yes |
Dragon Medical One vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Dragon Medical One | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | contact sales | free beta |
| Speaker diarization | — | Yes |
| Word timestamps | — | Yes |
| Streaming | — | No |
| Languages | — | 99 |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Web | Web, API, MCP |
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