MedSpel 8.0
et’s face facts; we all know and love the spellcheck feature when writing an email or filling out a form. However, when it comes to medical spelling, the default dictionaries leave much to be desired. In healthcare, words are regularly flagged as misspelled, when in fact they are not. People working in medicine, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, and other fields are all impacted by this problem, which can result in a surprisingly large amount of lost time and productivity as words are checked and rechecked for correctness - not to mention a high level of personal annoyance.
Apart from helping you make sure the medical words in your progress notes and reports are spelled accurately, a medical spellchecker can enhance patient safety through properly spelled drug names. The correct spelling of drug names is a particularly complex problem with look alike and sound alike drug names that have been identified as common causes of medical errors.
