Dictate in any app · Clinical
DrChrono is popular with small practices, where the doctor is also the IT department. Typally types what you say straight into DrChrono — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere DrChrono lets you type.
Yes, we build Typally. That is also why the section on DrChrono's built-in option is honest: people who switch after trying both are the ones who stay.Speech-to-text features have been part of its offering, and integrations with clinical dictation exist. What any given practice has enabled varies with plan and configuration.
Independent practices adopt DrChrono precisely to avoid enterprise overhead. That leaves the clinician personally responsible for deciding what tools touch patient data, usually without a compliance officer to ask.
In practice people use it for: Clinical notes, patient instructions, superbill notes, appointment summaries, and practice admin.
There is no DrChrono extension or add-in involved — Typally behaves like a very fast keyboard:
Windows or macOS, then sign in. No card for the free tier.
Click first. Typally types into DrChrono wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.
Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.
Typally is not HIPAA-certified and sends audio to a third-party service. Keep it away from anything identifying a patient. A convenient tool is not an approved one.
Typally covers a small practice's non-clinical writing — policies, website copy, supplier email, staff handbooks — from one hotkey in the browser. It is not HIPAA-certified and audio goes to a third-party transcription service, so it must stay away from anything identifying a patient. Clinical documentation needs a product covered by a business associate agreement.
A two-doctor practice writes its cancellation policy, its website copy and its new-staff handbook by voice over one afternoon. None of it contains patient information, and all of it had been on the to-do list for a year.
Write down which tools are approved for patient data and which are not, once, and stick to it. In a small practice that written line is the entire compliance process.
Typally is not HIPAA-certified and sends audio to a third-party service. Keep it away from anything identifying a patient. A convenient tool is not an approved one.
No. Typally is not HIPAA-certified. Patient documentation needs a product covered by a business associate agreement.
Either DrChrono's own speech features where enabled, or an integrated clinical dictation product licensed by the practice.
Yes, for writing with no patient information: staff rotas, supplier correspondence, marketing copy, internal policies.
Free plan: 100 minutes of dictation a month, no card. Pro is $7.99/month if you want more.
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