Transcripts

Transcript content and quality has a very big impact on your overall note quality. Here are some suggestions for getting great transcripts and thus clearer and more accurate notes from Mika.

Talk it all out

You need to verbalize everything you want included in the note. Mika relies on your transcript content to draft your note - so if it isn't in the transcript, it won't be in the note.

Pause and resume can help

Sometimes speaking certain parts of the encounter out loud or using detailed medical terminology doesn’t feel natural - so Mika give you the option to add it afterward.

Simply pause Mika once the patient encounter ends, resume when you’re ready to dictate additional details, and then end the session to draft your note.

So can macros

If you need to include a lot of content, making dictating too tedious, consider using our macros feature to quickly insert customizable blocks of text.

Speak clearly

Speak in a steady, moderate pace and avoid overlapping dialogue with the patient when possible.

Try to enunciate medical terminology as clearly as possible, and avoid using ambiguous phrases or acronyms without clarifying.

For example, using phrases like “up here” or “on the inside” during a physical exam can be too ambiguous for Mika:

“Still a little bit irritated up here, a bit more clobetasol…” “It’s still got some splitting and fissuring up here…” “Call it that whiteness right at the clitoral hood and it’s kind of retracting a little inside the vagina…”

In these moments, clearly naming anatomical structures—such as “near the clitoral hood” or “inside the vaginal canal”—would help Mika accurately attribute your observations.

Use of pronouns like “it,” can also lead to ambiguity. For instance:

“It appears kind of lacking the estrogen…”,

It’s unclear whether “it” refers to the clitoral hood or vaginal tissue. Being just a bit more specific here can really improve the accuracy of the note.

Repeat or rephrase

If a patient mumbles or is unclear, repeating or paraphrasing their response for clarity ensures the Mika captures it accurately.

If you happen to notice that Mika mishears something (i.e., a mistake in the transcript), just say the correction out loud, for instance “Actually, that was lisinopril, not Lipitor.”

Give hints

Verbal cues, or "hints," can really enhance Mika's ability to distinguish what's relevant and how to organize it into your note.

For example, adding a simple phrase like “We’re going to do an exam now…” at the start, and “That’s it for the exam…” at the end, would help Mika pick up and organize the details for a physical exam.