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Devacon GmbH, the business behind advanced mobile speech-to-text solutions, participated in a number of events in the Israeli healthcare industry. Staged in February 2018, discussions on advancements in e-health took place in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beer Sheva. Among those from the Israeli healthcare industry in attendance were two of the largest insurance companies in the country, the Hadassah Medical Centre and the Ministry of Health.

ProDictate Mobile, the powerful digital dictation solution, is now listed on BlackBerry's Dynamics Marketplace. Their strict certification protocols mean that a number of important security measures have been passed. For any business which takes data security seriously, this is a big advantage. The app's settings can be managed centrally within an organisation so policy requirements can be met using BlackBerry devices for secure, private dictation.

Devacon and Stratodesk have joined forces! Devacon’s VC solution has now been integrated into Stratodesk’s new OS firmware, enabling dictation devices and foot switches to be used in a Citrix XenApp solution. Users simply have to select the appropriate ProDictate driver in their Stratodesk settings and they can then immediately control the VC solution via the dictation device, footswitch and headphones. The result is improved user experience, as well as higher quality recording and playback audio.

The popular VC solution ProDictate from Devacon now offers support for the open source operating system OpenThinClient. ProDictate is a digital dictation solution that provides superior transmission of audio, supports the use of foot switches in remote desktop environments as well as connected dictation devices and vastly reduces the overall effects of bandwidth fluctuations. IT departments are relived by the presence of ProDictate which can easily be integrated into an existing infrastructure with little set up and overhead. This makes the remote desktop solution an improvement over Citrix XenApp and similar solutions.

ProDictate’s new module now makes automatic voice recognition and dictation software operate in the background, increasing user efficiency and making the transcribed texts available to the user. Organisation of the dictations is completed via a central pool, which can be filtered according to multiple factors. Moreover, ProDictate Mobile can then coordinate the dictation, sending it either to the dictating or writing party.

The newly released 2.0 version of ProDictate now fully supports XenApp 7.9 Citrix. XenApp 7.9 Citrix itself is a Terminal Server solution aimed at increasing user comfort, heightening security, and making management capabilities more responsive. Additionally, ProDictate 2.0 also supports Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication services, which enable users to effortlessly log in to multiple virtual and local applications via a single command. Corporate networks are made more secure this way and the work for IT departments is reduced.

Linux-based Igel thin clients now have enhanced functions thanks to the new version of Devacon’s Virtual Channel Client. Users wanting speech regognition or dictation capabilities on Terminal Server or XenApp WTS up from Igel’s 5.05.100 Firmware now have no issues—even on an Igel Thin Client UD2, UD3, or UD5. Any thin client hosted by a corporate network can rapidly receive the solution via UMS. This integration allows for the quick and effective rollout of speech regognition software.

Enhanced data security is achieved through encryption for both user sides, but this is offset by administration department holding security keys. There are specific requirements for data security at work. The fact that transcription is activated through ProDictate DS2 format ensures the right level of data security and means the security of that data is not affected.