Nuance Healthcare

Dragon Medical One Desktop Application 2023.3 Service Release 1

Release notes, 23.4.77.2340

Important information | What's new | Known issues | System requirements | Product life cycle | Release history

Important information

Mandatory update to the configuration file

Dragon Medical One 2023.3 introduces a breaking change to the Dragon Medical One configuration file. Make sure that the configuration file delivered with Dragon Medical One 2023.3 is used in your deployments. Failure to use the updated configuration file will lead to an error during application start; the error message will state that 'The “Flavor” setting is not configured correctly in the configuration file. Please contact your administrator.'

Update to the 'DefaultOptions' configuration file section

Dragon Medical One 2023.3 introduces a breaking change to the Dragon Medical One configuration file section that is used to define application default options. If your deployments configure default options via the configuration file, either update your configuration file to the one that is delivered with Dragon Medical One 2023.3, or change the existing configuration file as follows:

Change

<section name="SoD.DefaultOptions" type="SoDCommon.DefaultOptionsSection, SoD.Common" requirePermission="false"/>

to

<section name="SoD.DefaultOptions" type="SoDCommon.DefaultOptionsSection, Nuance.SoD.Common" requirePermission="false"/>

Using Microsoft Edge WebView2 to display the content of the personalization and help window

Dragon Medical One now uses Microsoft Edge WebView2 to display richer content with improved usability in the Dragon Medical One personalization and help window. To support this improvement, you must deploy the Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime component to machines that host Dragon Medical One. Failing to do so will not impact the core functionality of Dragon Medical One but will potentially impact end users interacting with content displayed in the Dragon Medical One personalization and help window. To deploy Microsoft Edge WebView2 to machines hosting Dragon Medical One, install the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Evergreen Standalone component; for more information, see Webview2 - Microsoft Edge Developer.

Microsoft Edge WebView2 deployment in Citrix environments

Currently, some Citrix environments exhibit issues that can cause the Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime process to fail working as expected, leading to the Dragon Medical One personalization and help window not displaying properly, and to sometimes terminate with a message visible to end users. As a workaround, you can apply a configuration change to Citrix to disable the Citrix Special Folder Redirection feature (SfrHook) for the Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime process. To do so, add the following registry keys to your Citrix environment configuration:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Citrix\CtxHook\AppInit_DLLs\SfrHook\msedgewebview2.exe]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Citrix\CtxHook\AppInit_DLLs\SfrHook\msedgewebview2.exe]

For Citrix documentation on the registry keys, see: How to Disable Citrix API Hooks on a Per-application Basis

Change of default settings for Citrix virtual channels

Starting with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 2109, the 'Virtual channel allow list' policy setting will be enabled by default.

This means that Nuance custom virtual channels will no longer work with the default configuration. The policy setting for virtual channels must be disabled (preferred) to allow all virtual channels again, or configured to allow Nuance virtual channels. For more information, see the Nuance Citrix Extension Deployment and Configuration Guide delivered with the Nuance virtual extension package, or contact Nuance Technical Support.

Citrix and VMware automatic USB device splitting to enable button controls on Nuance PowerMic devices

In a session roaming use case in Citrix or VMware environments where the Nuance virtual extensions cannot be used (for example, on Linux-based thin clients), manual device splitting is not supported. Automatic device splitting must be configured; for more information, see the Deployment and Configuration for Citrix Environments and Deployment and Configuration for VMware Horizon View Environments guides.

What's new

DAX Copilot in Dragon Medical One

DAX Copilot is a workflow solution that uses your mobile device plus Dragon Medical One to add artificial intelligence to your documentation workflow.

The DAX Copilot app on your mobile device securely captures your patient conversation during a visit. An in-app clinical summary is available for your review immediately after the visit. Use DAX Copilot with Dragon Medical One on your workstation to edit the clinical summary and transfer it to your EHR for finalization.

Known issues

Functionality not included in the 2023.3 Service Release 1 release

Use cases and functionality that are not supported

Applications and text control types that are not supported

VMware Horizon Agent 8

When having VMware Horizon Agent 8 installed, Dragon Medical One might not start again after the application has been closed. The issue has been fixed with the VMware Horizon 2111 release (Horizon Agent 8.4).

Screen saver not displayed

When working with a Philips SpeechMike or Nuance PowerMic 4 device, the screen saver is not displayed after the configured period of inactivity when recording is in standby mode.

To disable this behavior, press and hold the left mouse and touchpad buttons on the recording device for five seconds. When the firmware setting has been changed successfully, the device provides visual and audio feedback. This setting is stored on the device and needs to be changed individually on each device.

Dragon Medical One

General

Dictation

Formatted auto-texts

System requirements

For more information on supported infrastructure and text control support, see the Dragon Medical One Installation and Administration Guide.

System requirements

Virtualized environments

Virtualized environments - Thin client support

Best-effort support

If your environment does not meet the minimum requirements outlined, Nuance's ability to assist may be limited. This means that most functionality questions continue to be addressed, but if a bug is suspected or you are running into an issue that requires a technical investigation beyond known issues and fixes, we will recommend that you upgrade to the latest supported version. The following products fall into this best-effort support framework (this list is not comprehensive):

Third-party environments

Support for third-party environments is only valid as long as they are supported by the corresponding vendor and might be subject to other restrictions. Please contact Nuance Technical Support for details. For more information, see the documentation delivered with the third-party product and supporting Nuance documentation.

When standard support by the vendor has stopped, Nuance will continue support if an issue is specific to the Nuance solution, within the limitations of the vendor’s standard end-of-life and Nuance's policy. This means that issues that are a combination of the vendor’s component and the Nuance solution cannot be supported.

Product life cycle

Version Status End of support End of life
Dragon Medical One 2022.1 Supported July 31, 2024 October 31, 2024
Dragon Medical One 2022.2 Supported July 31, 2024 October 31, 2024
Dragon Medical One 2022.3 Supported July 31, 2024 October 31, 2024
Dragon Medical One 2023.2 Supported July 31, 2025 October 31, 2025
Dragon Medical One 2023.3 Supported July 31, 2026 October 31, 2026

Release history

Dragon Medical One 2023.3

Dragon Medical One 2023.2 Service Release 1 Hotfix 1

Dragon Medical One 2023.2 Hotfix 1

Dragon Medical One 2023.2 Service Release 1

Dragon Medical One 2023.2

Dragon Medical One 2022.3 Hotfix 3

Dragon Medical One 2022.3 Hotfix 2

Dragon Medical One 2022.3 Hotfix 1

Dragon Medical One 2022.3

Dragon Medical One 2022.2 Hotfix 2

Dragon Medical One 2022.2 Hotfix 1

Dragon Medical One 2022.2

Dragon Medical One 2022.1