Topic Update: 01-17-2024
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Article Summary

Accuracy - General

  • New drugs/devices- Corpus and dictionary support for new drugs and medical devices from FDA for November and December 2023 has been added. (B-17448, B-17449)

  • Dictionary Cleanup-  Cleanup work of the dictionary continues.  This effort involves removing nonsensical words, correcting misspelled words and improving pronunciations of existing words. (B-17462)

  • Enhanced Word Recognition- Additional support has been added to ensure improved and consistent recognition of the following words. (B-17455)

    1. hypercholesterolosis

    2. anterosuperior

    3. anteroinferior

    4.  OSSIS

  • Punctuation Period- Added support for several samples that were returning the word "period" instead of the punctuation mark. (D-13427)

  • Spinal Marker Ranges- Improved consistency of formatting for spinal marker ranges with the "to" connector when the second alpha is not spoken. For example, dictating adjacent ranges like "C one to two" will return "C1-2" and dictating non adjacent ranges, like "C one to three", will return "C1 to 3".  (B-17226)

Accuracy - Behavioral Health

  • Valium- We have bolstered corpus support for Valium to address instances where it was not returning accurately. Valium now accurately returns for these specific cases. (D-13428)

  • Armed Forces- Enhancements have been made to ensure more consistent uppercasing for specific references related to the armed forces. This update addresses the following terms: (D-13418)

    Army 

    Navy 

    US Army 

    US Navy 

    Army veteran 

    Navy veteran 

    US Air Force

    US Marine Corps 

    Air Force 

    Marine Corps 

    US Marine 

    Marine Corps veteran 

    Marine veteran 

    Coast Guard  

    Coast Guard veteran 

    Space Force

    Space Force veteran

Accuracy - General Medicine

  • Valium- We have bolstered corpus support for Valium to address instances where it was not returning accurately. Valium now accurately returns for these specific cases. (D-13428)

  • Armed Forces- Enhancements have been made to ensure more consistent uppercasing for specific references related to the armed forces. This update addresses the following terms: (D-13418)

    Army 

    Navy 

    US Army 

    US Navy 

    Army veteran 

    Navy veteran 

    US Air Force

    US Marine Corps 

    Air Force 

    Marine Corps 

    US Marine 

    Marine Corps veteran 

    Marine veteran 

    Coast Guard  

    Coast Guard veteran 

    Space Force

    Space Force veteran

Accuracy - Pathology

  • Punctuation Period- Added support for several samples that were returning the word "period" instead of the punctuation mark. (D-13427)

Accuracy - Orthopedics

  • Valium- We have bolstered corpus support for Valium to address instances where it was not returning accurately. Valium now accurately returns for these specific cases. (D-13428)