Elevate Your Practice with Dragon Medical One today. Save $200 by purchasing with automatic renewal.
Highly accurate, secure, Australian government-approved speech recognition that seamlessly dictates directly into any Windows application with a full medical vocabulary tailored to your specialty. It's the most used medical speech recognition solution in the world - offering unmatched performance.
Your Complete Dragon Package Includes:
Dragon Medical One & PowerMic Mobile - 1 year for 1 user
Expert Human Technical Support (Australian-based)
Includes professional implementation with 1hr remote user training
Choose between a single purchase of $1490 or our Annual Auto-Renewal Subscription at just $1290.
All options below are for a 12-month Dragon licence ➡️
What do you get with your Dragon Medical One purchase?
Your investment in Dragon Medical One isn't just software. It's a complete solution designed for immediate productivity and ongoing peace of mind.
Dragon Medical One — 1 year licence, single user. Access to the world's leading medical cloud speech recognition for twelve months.
PowerMic Mobile app, 12 months, included. Unlike some competitors, the PowerMic Mobile app is included, turning your Android or iPhone into a wireless, professional-grade microphone for true mobility within your practice.
Professional remote installation and configuration. We handle the technical setup for you via TeamViewer, so Dragon Medical One integrates properly with your Windows environment and your medical records software.
One hour of remote user training. Personalised, one-on-one training to master the features and maximise your dictation efficiency.
12 months of expert Australian-based technical support. Our local team can connect remotely to troubleshoot and fix issues, so you're always up and running.
Access to subscriber-only training videos. An extensive library of training resources for ongoing learning and tips.
Automatic software updates. Always the latest features and technology, updated continuously from the cloud.
Voice Recognition Australia — supplying and supporting Dragon Medical One in Australia since 2003. You benefit from our expertise and our dedication to medical professionals.
Next level speech recognition for your busy medical practice
For medical professionals, every second counts. You deserve a dictation solution that is not just accurate, but fast, reliable and effortlessly integrated into your workflow. That's why over 600,000 doctors worldwide trust Dragon Medical One. Built from the ground up for medical professionals, this cloud-based software runs on secure Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
Want the detail? The full guide further down this page covers how Dragon Medical One works, medical vocabulary, AutoTexts and voice commands, which Australian clinical software it dictates into, PowerMic Mobile, hosting and security, and twelve frequently asked questions.
Continuous, hassle-free access to Dragon Medical One with a significant saving, on our annual auto-renewal subscription.
Best price guaranteed. Secure your Dragon Medical One licence for $1,290, saving $200 compared to the one-off purchase. The discount is locked in for future renewals, so you keep the best available price even if standard prices increase.
Automatic, seamless renewal. Your service renews every 12 months, so access to the latest features and support is never interrupted. No renewal dates to remember.
Secure, encrypted processing. All automatic charges are processed securely and encrypted by Shopify, so your payment details are protected.
Cancel any time. Cancel your subscription at any point, directly from your customer portal.
Update your details easily. Change your credit card information or personal details online whenever you need to.
Advance notification. We notify you well before your card is processed for renewal, so you keep full transparency and control.
Multiple users or a larger organisation? Call 1300 255 900. All purchases include a fully Australian GST-compliant tax invoice.
I've been using Dragon Medical One for about four years and it's been found to be an efficient way of dictating directly into my medical records which is best practice in my case. Highly recommend. Also, Voice Recognition Australia has an excellent trainer to get you set up remotely.
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Dr Alison Hardy
Straight into Best Practice
Been dictating into Best Practice with it for about eight months now. Picks up the drug names and the orthopaedic terminology without me having to train it, which was the thing I was sceptical about. Consult notes are done before the patient has left the room.
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Dr Michael Cavanagh
Setup and training were the difference
I had tried dictation software years ago and given up on it. The difference this time was the remote install and the hour of training, which sorted the microphone setup and the commands I actually needed. Would not have persisted otherwise.
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Dr Priya Raman
Worth it for the letters alone
Referral letters used to be my Sunday night job. Now they are done between patients. Accuracy on specialist terminology is very good and it has learned my accent over the first couple of weeks.
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Dr Grant Ferrier
PowerMic Mobile is the sleeper feature
Using my phone as the microphone means I can move between the two consulting rooms without carting hardware around. Did not expect that to matter as much as it does. Support answered the phone in Australia when I had a question about it.
Everything you need to know before you buy Dragon Medical One
How it works, what it does, what it costs you in time saved — and why Australian practices buy it from us.
Dragon Medical One for Australian doctors
Dragon Medical One is cloud-based medical speech recognition. You speak, and your words appear at the cursor in whatever Windows application you are already working in — your practice management system, a referral letter, a hospital record, an email.
There is no separate dictation window to copy text out of and no transcription to wait for. The recognition happens in the cloud in real time, so the note is finished when you stop speaking rather than at the end of the day.
Your profile lives in the cloud rather than on one machine. Log in at a different workstation and your vocabulary, your corrections and your accent model follow you. Microsoft describes Dragon Medical One as "the number one clinical documentation companion" for exactly this reason: it is designed to sit inside a clinician's existing workflow rather than replace it.
In Australia it is used across general practice, specialist rooms, allied health and hospital environments. Voice Recognition Australia has supplied and supported it here since it launched, and has been supporting Australian Dragon users since 2003.
Pure dictation. Not an AI scribe.
These are two different categories of product and the difference matters before you spend anything.
Dragon Medical One writes what you deliberately dictate. You control every word. You decide what goes into the record, in your own clinical language, and it appears as you say it. Nothing is inferred, summarised or invented.
An ambient AI scribe listens to a consultation and generates a note from it. It interprets a conversation between you and your patient and produces its own draft, which you then read back and correct. That can save time on history taking, but the words in the record are the model's words until you edit them.
The practical distinction: a scribe is a drafting assistant for consultations. Dragon Medical One is a typing replacement for everything you write — consult notes, referral letters, specialist reports, discharge summaries, medico-legal correspondence, emails. Many clinicians end up running both, using a scribe in the room and Dragon Medical One for everything the scribe never sees.
If precision matters more than summarisation — and in specialist correspondence and medico-legal writing it usually does — deliberate dictation is the safer instrument. You are not reviewing a machine's interpretation of what you meant. You are reading back your own sentence.
Medical vocabulary built for clinicians
General-purpose dictation fails in medicine on the words that matter most. Drug names, anatomy, procedures and abbreviations are exactly where a consumer engine guesses, and exactly where a guess is unacceptable in a clinical record.
Dragon Medical One ships with medical vocabulary. You select your specialty when you log in, and the engine works from a vocabulary built for that discipline rather than from general Australian English.
Specialty vocabularies — the terminology of your discipline is there from the first dictation, not learned over months.
Medications and procedures — drug names, dosages and procedure terminology recognised without you spelling them out.
Your own custom vocabulary — add the terms, practice names, colleague names and local abbreviations the standard vocabulary does not know. These are stored in your cloud profile.
Automatic accent adaptation — Microsoft describes it as "automatic accent detection and audio calibration". There is no voice training session to sit through before you start working.
Learning from corrections — when you correct a word, the profile keeps that correction and applies it next time.
That last point is the one clinicians underestimate. Accuracy is not a fixed number you buy; it is a curve that improves as the profile learns your voice and your vocabulary. The first fortnight is the steepest part of the curve, which is why the training hour included with every purchase from us is spent on correction technique rather than on features.
AutoTexts, voice commands and the Dictation Box
Recognition accuracy is only half of what makes dictation faster than typing. The other half is not having to dictate the same paragraph for the four hundredth time.
AutoText
An AutoText is a block of text you record once and insert by voice. A normal examination template, a standard set of pre-operative instructions, your referral letter opening, a consent paragraph, a follow-up plan. You say the trigger phrase and the whole block appears, ready for you to dictate the parts that actually change. Microsoft's own description is that it "eliminates repetitive data entry by automating how commonly used content and information is added to clinical notes".
AutoTexts can contain fill-in fields, so a template can drop into place with gaps you jump between by voice instead of reaching for the keyboard.
Voice commands
Formatting, correction and navigation are all spoken. Bold that, delete that line, go to the end of the sentence, select the last paragraph, capitalise that. Microsoft's wording is that you "format, correct, and navigate notes quickly and easily using natural-language commands". In practice it means you can produce a finished, formatted letter without your hands leaving the desk.
Step-by-step commands
These chain several actions into one spoken instruction — open an application, move to a particular field, insert a standard block, save. For a repetitive daily workflow, one phrase can replace a dozen clicks.
The Dictation Box
Some applications do not accept dictated text cleanly at the cursor — older clinical software, some web forms, some remote sessions. The Dictation Box is a separate window that always accepts your full set of personalisations and commands, and transfers the finished text into the target application when you are done. It is the fallback that makes Dragon Medical One work in awkward environments rather than failing in them.
This is the part of the product most new users never discover on their own, and it is the single biggest source of time saved once they do.
Works with Australian medical software
Dragon Medical One dictates into any Windows application. That includes the practice management and clinical systems Australian practices actually run.
System
How it is used
Best Practice
Dictation directly into consult notes, letters and correspondence within the Windows client.
MedicalDirector
Dictation at the cursor in clinical notes and letter writer.
Genie / Gentu
Used in specialist rooms for consultation notes and referral correspondence.
Shexie
Dictation into clinical and administrative fields.
Windows Server / terminal environments
Where clinical software is hosted on a server, Dragon Medical One is installed on the server and dictated into from any terminal.
Everything else on Windows
Outlook, Word, browsers, PDF tools, hospital portals — anywhere there is a cursor.
The server option is the one worth understanding if you are a multi-site or multi-practitioner practice. Where your clinical software is hosted centrally, Dragon Medical One installs on the server, dictation from a phone or microphone lands as text on the server, and there is no per-machine installation to manage. There is no limit on the number of Windows environments you can install it in.
We install and configure this ourselves, remotely, as part of every purchase — which means the compatibility question is answered before you pay rather than after.
PowerMic Mobile is included with every subscription we sell. It is worth being precise about what it is, because the name misleads people.
It is a wireless microphone, not a portable dictation recorder. The app on your phone captures your voice and sends it to the Dragon Medical One session running on your Windows computer. The text appears on that computer. Your phone is the input device; it is not storing dictations to sync later.
PowerMic Mobile turns the phone already in your pocket into the microphone for your Dragon Medical One session.
What that gives you in practice is mobility inside your practice or hospital. Walk between consulting rooms, sit at whichever workstation is free, log in, and dictate — without carrying a microphone from desk to desk or buying one for every room.
If you need to record dictations while away from a computer and have them transcribed later, that is a different product category — a digital voice recorder and a transcription workflow. Talk to us about Philips dictation hardware instead of expecting PowerMic Mobile to do it.
Many clinicians still prefer a dedicated USB microphone or headset at their main desk for all-day dictation, and use PowerMic Mobile when they are moving. Our guide to choosing a microphone for speech recognition covers what actually affects accuracy.
Hosting, privacy and security
Dragon Medical One is a cloud service. Audio is transmitted from your computer to the recognition service and text is returned in real time; the processing does not happen on your own hardware, which is why it runs well on modest machines.
The service runs on Microsoft Azure infrastructure. Australian subscriptions are provisioned on the Australian tenant.
Dragon Medical One is Australian government-approved speech recognition, and is in use across Australian government, hospital and university environments.
We provide the current vendor documentation your IT team needs, rather than a marketing summary of it.
If your practice or hospital IT team needs written detail on data residency, encryption and the current certification position before you proceed, ask us and we will provide the current vendor documentation rather than a marketing summary of it. That is a question your IT team should get a paper answer to, not a webpage answer.
Why buy Dragon Medical One from Voice Recognition Australia
The licence is the same wherever you buy it. What differs is whether anyone makes it work.
Supporting Australian Dragon users since 2003. We have deployed speech recognition into Australian practices, hospitals, universities and government departments for over two decades. That is deployment experience, not a reseller listing.
Professional remote installation. We install and configure it with you over TeamViewer, including the integration with your clinical software and your microphone setup. You are not sent a licence key and left to it.
One hour of one-on-one training, included. Spent on correction technique, AutoText and the commands you will actually use daily — the things that decide whether you are still using it in six months.
Australian-based technical support for twelve months. Our team, in Australia, able to connect remotely and fix the problem rather than log it.
PowerMic Mobile included. Not an upsell.
Subscriber-only training library. Ongoing video training for when you want to go deeper than the first hour.
Australian GST-compliant tax invoice on every purchase, and local billing.
Our Dragon Medical One customers rate it 5.0 out of 5 across six reviews on this page, and the recurring theme in them is not the software — it is the setup and the training. One of them says it plainly: they had tried dictation software years earlier and given up, and the difference the second time was the install and the hour of training.
Multiple users, a practice group, or a hospital department? Call 1300 255 900. Volume licensing, server deployment and staged rollouts are handled differently to a single subscription, and they are what we have spent twenty years doing.
Before you compare prices: check what is actually in the box
Dragon Medical One is the same software wherever you buy it. What differs between resellers is what comes with the licence — and the cheapest headline price is often the smallest package.
The pattern to watch for is a stripped "essentials" or "software only" tier: a lower advertised price, with the PowerMic Mobile app and the training hour sold separately as paid add-ons, and support capped at 30 days.
One competing Australian listing for Dragon Medical One Essentials is priced at $989 with PowerMic Mobile offered as a $119 add-on and one hour of remote training as a $180 add-on. Add the two back and the total is $1,288 — for a package that still carries 30 days of support and no professional installation.
Stripped "essentials" tier
Voice Recognition Australia
Advertised price
$989
$1,290 auto-renewal / $1,490 one-off
PowerMic Mobile app
Add-on, +$119
Included
One hour of remote training
Add-on, +$180
Included
Real cost with both
$1,288
$1,290
Technical support
30 days
12 months, Australian-based
Professional remote installation
Not included
Included
Ongoing training library
Not included
Included
Competitor pricing as published on that reseller's own product listing and checked on 10 September 2026. Our prices are GST inclusive. Check current pricing on any listing before you compare.
Why we will not sell Dragon Medical One without PowerMic Mobile
Every subscription we sell includes it, and that is deliberate. PowerMic Mobile is what you fall back on when the microphone on your desk dies mid-clinic. It is how you dictate when you are working from a different room, a different site, or remoted in from home. It gives you a clean audio path when the workstation you are sitting at has nothing usable attached to it.
Selling a clinician a dictation system with no way to dictate when their hardware fails is not a saving. It is a problem deferred to the worst possible moment.
And 30 days of support is not support
The first month is the easy month. The questions that decide whether you are still dictating in a year arrive later — a Windows update changes something, you move practice management software, you want to build AutoTexts properly, a new machine needs setting up, your accuracy drifts and you do not know why.
We answer those for twelve months, and we remote in and fix them with you during business hours rather than sending you a knowledge base article.
Australian Consumer Law guarantees apply to software bought in Australia regardless of how long any seller's own support period runs. A 30-day support window does not shorten your statutory rights — but it does decide whether anyone picks up the phone in month four.
Dragon Medical One: frequently asked questions
How much does Dragon Medical One cost in Australia?
Dragon Medical One is $1,490 for a 12-month licence as a one-off purchase, or $1,290 per year on the annual auto-renewal subscription — a saving of $200. Both prices are GST inclusive, and every purchase includes an Australian GST-compliant tax invoice.
What is included in the price?
Dragon Medical One and the PowerMic Mobile app for 12 months for one user, professional remote installation and configuration, one hour of one-on-one remote training, 12 months of Australian-based technical support, access to our subscriber-only training videos, and automatic software updates from the cloud.
What is the difference between the one-off purchase and the auto-renewal subscription?
The one-off purchase is $1,490 for a 12-month licence and does not renew automatically. The auto-renewal subscription is $1,290 for the same 12-month licence, with your card charged automatically every 12 months. You are notified in advance of each renewal, can update your payment details online, and can cancel at any time from your customer portal.
Is Dragon Medical One an AI scribe?
No. Dragon Medical One transcribes what you deliberately dictate — you control every word that enters the record. An ambient AI scribe listens to a consultation and generates its own draft note from it, which you then review and correct. They solve different problems, and a number of clinicians use both: a scribe during consultations, and Dragon Medical One for letters, reports and correspondence.
Does it work with Best Practice and MedicalDirector?
Yes. Dragon Medical One dictates at the cursor into any Windows application, including Best Practice, MedicalDirector, Genie, Gentu and Shexie. Where your clinical software is hosted on a Windows server, we can install Dragon Medical One on the server instead of on individual workstations. We configure the integration during your remote installation.
Do I have to train it to my voice before I can use it?
No. There is no voice training session. Dragon Medical One detects your accent automatically and calibrates to your audio, then keeps adapting as you use it and correct it. Accuracy improves most noticeably over the first couple of weeks, which is why correction technique is a focus of your included training hour.
Can I use it on more than one computer?
Yes. Your licence is per user, not per machine, and there is no limit on the number of Windows environments you can install it in. Your profile, vocabulary and AutoTexts live in the cloud, so they follow you to whichever workstation you log in at.
What is PowerMic Mobile and is it included?
PowerMic Mobile is included with every subscription we sell. It turns your Android or iPhone into a wireless microphone for your Dragon Medical One session — it is not a portable dictation recorder. Your phone captures the audio and the text appears on the Windows computer running your session, which lets you move between rooms and workstations without carrying hardware.
What are AutoTexts?
An AutoText is a block of text you record once and insert by voice — an examination template, a standard consent paragraph, your usual referral opening. Say the trigger phrase and the whole block appears, with optional fill-in fields you can jump between by voice. For repetitive documentation this saves more time than raw dictation speed does.
Where is Dragon Medical One hosted?
Dragon Medical One is a cloud service running on Microsoft Azure infrastructure, and Australian subscriptions are provisioned on the Australian tenant. If your IT team requires formal documentation on data residency, encryption and current certifications, contact us and we will provide the current vendor documentation.
Does it work in virtual or remote desktop environments?
Yes, and this is common in hospital and multi-site practice deployments. Where clinical software runs on a Windows server or in a virtual environment, Dragon Medical One is installed there and dictated into from any terminal. We handle this configuration as part of the installation — tell us about your environment before you buy and we will confirm the approach.
Why is another reseller's Dragon Medical One cheaper?
Usually because it is a smaller package. A stripped "essentials" tier advertises a lower licence price, then sells the PowerMic Mobile app and the training hour as paid add-ons and caps support at 30 days. One competing Australian listing is $989 with PowerMic Mobile at +$119 and one hour of training at +$180 — $1,288 once both are added back, against our $1,290, and still with 30 days of support and no professional installation. The software is identical. What differs is what happens after you buy it.
What support do I get after installation?
Twelve months of technical support from our Australian-based team, who can connect to your computer remotely to diagnose and fix problems. You also get access to our subscriber-only training video library. If you have multiple users or are a larger organisation, call 1300 255 900 — volume and server deployments are handled differently to single subscriptions.
