Echo is available in ‘Echo Only’ mode or combined with the full Lexacom toolbar. This guide applies to both, your exact layout may vary.

How to use medical mode (spoken word)

Medical Mode

Echo will automatically convert spoken phrases or existing text into medical shorthand or abbreviations. This mode can be used by clinicians to assist with data entry into any application or clinical system.

This guide explains how to use Medical Mode using spoken word via dictation.

• Log in to Lexacom Echo
• Observe the Lexacom Echo controls at the top of the screen

Echo Only	Combined

• Press the Comprehension Engine® hotkey* on your keyboard and repeat until the blue stethoscope icon appears.
  • If you are using a handheld Olympus or Philips microphone with an F2 button, you can press this instead of Insert.
  • In combined mode, you can also click on the icon on the right to swap modes.

*Note: by default the ‘Comprehension Engine® hotkey’ is the ‘insert’ key but this can be changed in the settings as outlined here.

Echo Only	Combined

• Dictate your Echo audio in to a chosen application e.g. clinical system
• Medical terminology will be identified by Comprehension Engine®. It will automatically convert your spoken phrase into medically recognised language and shorthand.

E.g. Dictating “Heart sounds were normal” becomes HS I + II – 0  on the screen. “Four times a day” becomes qds.

Comprehension Engine® terminology is evolving every day, if you identify a term that hasn’t yet been added but would benefit you, and other users, you can submit a request.

How to Request Additions to Patient and Medical Mode