I'm investigating getting DNS setup for 3 of the doctors in my medical group.  We're looking to be using shared laptops so that a given DNS user may be working off of different laptops on different days.

Is the roaming feature of DNS compatible with this type of use?  Would a doctor logging in to a particular laptop for the day need to do anything special to activate their unique DNS profile or is this linked to the user account in Windows?  I want to make sure the process will be easy enough to do each time.  It's OK if the initial setup takes some work as long as the day-to-day use for the doctors doesn't require much (if any) extra work.

If this is not easy, we may opt to have DNS-using docs use laptops designated for their own use only instead of using shared laptops.

Any advice is welcome.

Thanks,

Andrew 

Currently not yet using voice recognition software 

Andrew,

The Roaming user feature of DNS is ideal for this type of situation. However, be advised that you must have a separate license for each of these three doctors. See your original post (questions) on the explanation of the EULA (end user license agreement) and the subsequent responses by Rüdiger and myself.

Using the Roaming user feature requires an understanding of setting up and using roaming profiles, but it is not difficult. It is not necessary to provide dedicated laptops for each doctor. Many small practices and even large hospital accounts do this on a regular basis. The advantage of Roaming user profiles is that it is not necessary to constantly sync profile changes. The Roaming user feature does this for you automatically regardless of which system you happen to be dictating from. Using Roaming users is much more efficient and more cost-effective.

Chuck Runquist
Technical Project Manager
VoiceTeach LLC
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Well adding to Chuck's advice, I think the one of the main points in Andrew's questions was whether with the Roaming user option, people will have access to their files only or to everyone else's also. The short answer is, you can only open a user profile that was created under the Windows user account that you have access to and are logged in to.

Rüdiger

Well, it's past the point where we can make any changes in the code, but we can still make changes to the Easter Egg!

Adding to Rüdiger's advice, access to user profiles is linked to access to Windows folders. If all doctors can access the physical folders on the server where the Dragon user profiles (language files) are stored, they will be able to see all user profiles. If their Windows profile restricts access to the folders where the others' language files are stored, they won't.

Stephan

www.egs-vertrieb.de - Speech Recognition Blog - Forum: www.immer-eine-Nuance-besser.de

This is a good way to limit the profiles that are available to any particular user. If only 1 profile is present, Dragon will automatically open it.

Another way to achieve this without customised folder permissions is to set the path of the roaming folder (which is independent of the active user) using a drive letter. That drive letter can then point to a different folder for each user, in which only their own Dragon profile lives. In fact, you may find that this sort of scenario is already in use.

Very useful suggestions.  Thanks.

Andrew 

I would like to add to this being on both sides of the fence per se. 

Doctors "need" easy. Most are not the one's on this type of site. If there is a way to make a "short cut" with the doctors name to open the profile, that would be the best way if using multiple laptops. If you expect your docs (depending on age) to open dragon and have to pick their users and start , after about 3 days you will get calls since Dr. Jones opened up Dr. Smith's profile by accident and does not know why he can not dictate.

Depending on the budget, amount of doctors involved and "skill sets"...sometimes each having their own computers is worth it......

I would try the suggestions above first, since it is more cost effective. 

Please report back and let us know what you did and how it worked out, I would be curious.

Thanks and good luck,

Larry 

Very true.  Simplicity will be key.  Some of the docs wouldn't tolerate a required repetitive task each time even if only a few steps.  Will report back with any updates.

Andrew 

Thanks Chuck & Rüdiger,

Just the advice I needed.

Andrew