Dictate Into Any EMR. The Data Never Leaves Your Mac.

The typical physician spends 16 minutes documenting each patient encounter in their EMR. Across a full clinic day, that's two to four hours of text entry — more time typing than talking to patients. The problem isn't the EMR itself. It's the keyboard standing between clinical thinking and the note.

Voice dictation removes that bottleneck. Speaking is three to four times faster than typing for most people, and it maps naturally to how clinical reasoning already works. The challenge has always been the tool: existing EMR dictation options are expensive, require cloud connectivity, and raise genuine questions about where patient data goes.

Resonant takes a different approach. It works as a universal dictation layer that sits on top of your EMR — any EMR — and types text wherever your cursor is. No integration. No subscription. No audio leaving your machine.

How it works with any EMR

Resonant isn't an EMR plugin. It doesn't need to be. It works the same way a keyboard does: wherever your cursor is, text appears. That means it works in Epic's SmartText fields, Cerner PowerChart note sections, Athenahealth encounter notes, DrChrono, eClinicalWorks, Modernizing Medicine, and every other system — including your institution's web-based portal.

The workflow is the same regardless of which system you use:

1. Open your EMR and navigate to the note or field you want to populate.
2. Click into the text area to place your cursor.
3. Trigger Resonant with your hotkey — one keystroke.
4. Speak. Text appears in real time, in the field, as you talk.
5. Trigger the hotkey again to stop. Review and edit as needed.

There's nothing to configure per-EMR. No API keys, no browser extensions, no IT department involvement. If you can type in the field, you can dictate into it.

Where dictation saves the most time in an EMR

Not every part of an EMR encounter benefits equally. Structured data — dropdowns, checkboxes, diagnosis codes, medication reconciliation — still requires direct interaction. But the narrative sections that take the longest to complete are exactly where dictation is fastest:

• History of present illness. The longest free-text section in most encounters. Dictating the HPI immediately after the visit, while recall is fresh, is where physicians consistently report the largest time savings.
• Assessment and plan. Clinical reasoning expressed verbally tends to be more complete than typed notes squeezed into a busy schedule. Speaking through your differential and plan mirrors how you think during the encounter.
• Physical exam narrative. Detailed findings — neurological exams, musculoskeletal assessments, skin findings — are tedious to type and quick to speak.
• Encounter notes and progress notes. Inpatient daily notes, follow-up summaries, and consult responses are structured but require original language. Dictation handles the language; your cursor handles the structure.
• Discharge summaries and referral letters. Narrative-heavy documents that take significant time to produce. Dictating into a standard template skeleton — filling in the patient-specific content verbally — compresses these from 20 minutes to under five.

HIPAA, PHI, and why local processing matters

When you dictate into a cloud-based tool, your audio travels to a remote server for processing. That audio contains patient names, dates of birth, diagnoses, medications, and history — the full definition of Protected Health Information under HIPAA. Any tool that transmits PHI to a third party for processing requires a signed Business Associate Agreement before you can legally use it.

Dragon Medical One requires a BAA with Nuance. Many AI scribe products require a BAA with their respective vendors. Getting those agreements in place — and ensuring they cover your specific use case — involves your institution's legal and compliance teams. That process takes time, and individual physicians working outside a large institution often can't easily complete it.

Resonant doesn't need a BAA. Audio is processed entirely on your Mac using Apple's Neural Engine. Nothing is transmitted to any server. The audio is discarded immediately after transcription. No third party ever receives your patients' data — because there is no third party in the loop.

For physicians in private practice, small groups, or institutional settings where IT approval for cloud tools is slow, that distinction is significant. Local processing eliminates the compliance question entirely.

What Dragon Medical One costs compared to Resonant

Dragon Medical One is the dominant enterprise dictation product in clinical settings. It's accurate, well-integrated with major EMR platforms, and genuinely useful. It's also approximately $99 per month per physician — more than $1,000 a year. For an independent physician, that's a meaningful expense.

AI scribe products — ambient listening tools that generate notes automatically from the patient encounter — run from $100 to $300 per month per user, and require audio capture during the clinical encounter itself.

Resonant is free. No subscription, no per-seat pricing, no usage caps. It runs on the hardware you already own. For a solo physician or small practice looking to reduce documentation time without a monthly commitment, the cost difference is immediate.

Works on or offline

Cloud dictation tools require an active internet connection. In clinical environments — hospital floors with spotty coverage, rural practices with unreliable connectivity, any setting where the network goes down mid-session — that dependency is a real limitation.

Because Resonant runs entirely on-device, it works the same whether you have a strong signal or no signal at all. Your EMR may require internet to function; Resonant doesn't. The dictation layer is independent of your network status.

Getting started

Setup takes a few minutes. Download Resonant, grant microphone access, and set your hotkey. Then open your EMR, click into a note field, and start speaking. There's no training corpus to build, no vocabulary to pre-load, and no configuration tied to your specific EMR.

The one adjustment most physicians make in the first few days is learning to speak punctuation explicitly — “period,” “new paragraph,” “comma” — until it becomes automatic. By the end of the first week, the workflow is typically faster than typing. By the end of the first month, most physicians describe going back to typing notes as unthinkable.

Download Resonant and dictate your next note into your EMR. Your voice stays on your machine. Your patients' data stays with you.