After this morning’s Dragon Medical One patch in our ortho clinic, ranges are dropping their hyphens — ‘5–[redacted]’ turns into ‘5 [redacted]’ — and minus signs in dictated numbers are disappearing. Tiny change, outsized meaning; is anyone else seeing QA time spike since the update?
Seeing it too — Dragon’s nibbling dashes. Temporary fix: in DMO Options > Formatting, set ‘ASCII-only punctuation’ (disable ‘typographic symbols’) so ranges/minus use the plain hyphen-minus; if it’s locked, ask IT to flip the profile policy in the Management Console. @NuanceSupport is this in the latest build notes?
Ran into this after this morning’s DMO patch — my stopgap is an Auto-Text called “literal minus” that inserts “-”, and I say “no space on” right before it and “no space off” after so ranges/negative numbers don’t lose their marks. Small gotcha: if you forget to turn no-space off, the next word will stick, so I mapped the Auto-Text to a PowerMic button. Does that hold up in your ortho templates where the “minus signs” are disappearing?
And , we hit this after this morning’s DMO patch too; piggybacking on @david_m59’s idea, I added a vocabulary entry with written form ‘-’ and spoken form ‘literal dash’, then set its word properties to ‘no space before/after’ so ranges and negatives stick. It’s been more reliable than formatting toggles, though you’ll need to retrain folks to say the phrase. Are your QA delays mostly in Epic text fields or everywhere?
Quick workaround: route dictation through Dictation Box and enable ‘Transfer text as plain text’ so the EHR stops eating the Unicode dash/minus — think of it as bubble-wrap for punctuation. Does it still drop hyphens if you test in Notepad, or only inside your chart fields?
I’m seeing it too — my duct-tape fix is a QA cleanup that swaps the Unicode “minus sign” (U+2212) and en/em dashes to ASCII ‘-’ and converts digit space digit into digit-hyphen-digit before sign-off. @kate_will89 if Auto‑punctuation is enabled, try toggling it off as a quick test; that’s when my ranges started drifting.
Example: ‘5–7’ turns into ‘5 7’ in our EHR after today’s Dragon Medical One update, . For now I force an ASCII hyphen by saying ‘press hyphen’ for ranges/minus, which survives the field; if it still blanks, it’s likely the EHR eating it and you’ll need a plain‑text path. Which fields are you in when the ‘minus signs in dictated numbers are disappearing’?