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Medical dictation that stays on your Mac.

Dictate clinical notes into Epic, Cerner, Athena, or any EHR. Record case conferences and patient encounters with on-device Meeting Notes. Ask the AI chat about a chart on screen. Audio never leaves your Mac, so PHI doesn't either.

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A field guide for doctors, updated May 4, 2026 by Branden Chong.

In practice

How clinicians use Dollop.

  1. 01.

    Dictate clinical notes into the EHR.

    Hit ⌥ Space at the cursor inside Epic, Cerner, Athena, or any web-based EHR; speak the SOAP note; clean text appears. Dollop's adapter is trained on the way clinicians actually speak: incomplete sentences, dosages mid-thought, chart-style abbreviations.

    Heard

    forty-two-year-old male, follow-up for type two diabetes. A1C down from 8.4 to 7.1 on metformin one thousand BID. continue current regimen, recheck in three months. counseled on diet and exercise; patient reports adherence improving.

  2. 02.

    Record case conferences and grand rounds.

    Hit ⌃ R before the case conference. Meeting Notes captures audio locally, transcribes on Apple's Neural Engine, and outputs a summary with action items in seconds. No bot in the meeting, no cloud upload of patient discussions, no third-party processing of clinical conversations.

  3. 03.

    Ask the AI chat about a chart or paper.

    Open the imaging report or the latest UpToDate page, hit ⌃ S to summon the chat overlay with screen context, and ask for the abnormal findings, the relevant differential, or a plain-English summary. Reads what's on screen locally.

  4. 04.

    Patient communication with the right tone.

    MyChart messages want warm and clear. Referral letters want formal. Tasks for nursing want short. Dollop shifts automatically so the same dictation reads right in each context.

    Heard

    Hi Mrs. Lopez, your most recent labs look much better. Keep taking the medication as we discussed and let's plan to recheck in three months. Reach out anytime through the portal if you have questions.

What you actually get

Dollop mapped to your work.

Voice dictation (⌥ Space)
Charting in Epic, Cerner, Athena, Practice Fusion, Kareo, eClinicalWorks, all browser-based or native, system-wide.
Meeting Notes (⌃ R)
Recording case conferences, M&M, grand rounds locally on your Mac. No bot in the meeting, no PHI uploaded anywhere.
AI chat with screen context (⌃ S)
Ask about the imaging report or UpToDate page on screen for a differential or summary, locally.
Custom medical vocabulary
Specialty acronyms (DKA, SBO, NSTEMI), medications (metformin, Plavix), and procedure names recognized verbatim.
Per-app tone matching
Warm in MyChart messages, formal in referral letters, terse in nursing tasks, all from one dictation.
0 GB of RAM
Apple Foundation Models is already in the OS. Your clinic Mac stays fast with Epic, UpToDate, and a video call open at once.
A type specimen

How the cleanup reads.

Real before-and-after dictation on terms specific to doctors, processed locally on Apple Foundation Models.

SOAP note (medical vocabulary preserved)
Heard

uh forty-two-year-old male, follow up for type two diabetes. a one c down from eight point four to seven point one on metformin a thousand twice daily. continue current regimen, recheck in three months. counseled on diet and exercise; patient reports adherence improving.

Cleaned

42-year-old male, follow-up for type 2 diabetes. A1C down from 8.4 to 7.1 on metformin 1000 mg BID. Continue current regimen, recheck in 3 months. Counseled on diet and exercise; patient reports adherence improving.

Patient message (warm tone in MyChart)
Heard

hi mrs lopez your most recent labs look much better, keep taking the medication as we discussed and uh let's plan to recheck in three months. reach out anytime through the portal if you have questions

Cleaned

Hi Mrs. Lopez, your most recent labs look much better. Keep taking the medication as we discussed and let's plan to recheck in three months. Reach out anytime through the portal if you have questions.

Why it fits

Why physicians choose on-device.

PHI never leaves your Mac.

Cloud dictation tools route audio (and therefore PHI) through third-party servers and AI providers. Dollop processes audio entirely on-device on Apple's Neural Engine and Foundation Models. No upload, no third-party AI vendor in the data path, no unsigned BAA.

Free, no per-physician license.

Dragon Medical One is roughly $1,500 per provider per year. Cloud meeting notes (Otter, Fireflies) charge per seat or per minute. Dollop is free per Mac with no licensing, install it on every clinic Mac without a procurement cycle.

A real Dragon Medical alternative on Mac.

Nuance discontinued Dragon Dictate for Mac in 2018, and Dragon Medical One is Windows/cloud only. Mac-based clinicians have been stitching workflows together ever since. Dollop runs on Apple Silicon with medical vocabulary and tuned cleanup out of the box.

Medical vocabulary recognized verbatim.

Add the medications, procedures, and acronyms specific to your specialty. Dollop AI learns them on top of Apple Foundation Models without retraining anything cloud-side. "DKA," "SBO," "metformin," "Plavix" stay correct, not phoneticized.

Asked & answered

Questions, answered.

Is Dollop HIPAA compliant? +
On-device processing removes the most common HIPAA concern (cloud routing of PHI). Dollop processes audio entirely on your Mac with no third-party services. Formal HIPAA certification with signed BAAs is on the roadmap; for healthcare environments today, the on-device architecture is the right starting point and is materially safer than any cloud-routed alternative.
Can Dollop replace Dragon Medical on Mac? +
Dragon Medical One does not run natively on Mac (Windows or cloud only); Mac clinicians have been on Dragon Dictate (discontinued 2018) or makeshift Whisper-based workflows. Dollop is the first tool to combine real-time on-device dictation, custom medical vocabulary, and patient-encounter recording on Apple Silicon. The architecture is different (Apple Foundation Models vs Nuance's medical acoustic model), but for the clinician who wants clean dictation in the EHR, Dollop is the closest current equivalent.
Does it work in Epic, Cerner, Athena, and Practice Fusion? +
Yes, system-wide. Dollop pastes clean text wherever your cursor is: any web-based EHR (Epic Hyperdrive, Athena, Practice Fusion, Kareo, eClinicalWorks) and any native app. There is no per-EHR integration to set up.
Can I record patient encounters and case conferences? +
Yes, that is what Meeting Notes does. Hit ⌃ R; Dollop captures audio locally and transcribes on Apple's Neural Engine. Recording laws vary by state and patient consent rules apply; Dollop provides the tool, you handle consent and your own institutional policies.
How does it compare to Otter, Granola, or Read.ai for clinical meetings? +
Those tools upload audio to the cloud and many train on user data unless you opt out. For case conferences, M&M, or any meeting where PHI is discussed, that is a non-starter. Dollop's Meeting Notes is on-device by architecture.
Will it slow down my Mac during long shifts? +
0 GB of added RAM. Local Whisper-based tools eat 700 MB to 2 GB. Dollop contributes nothing on top because Apple Foundation Models is already in the OS. Useful when the clinic Mac has Epic, six tabs of UpToDate, and a video call open at the same time.
Can I add specialty-specific vocabulary? +
Yes. The Custom Vocabulary panel takes any term you want recognized verbatim, medications, procedures, internal codes, even patient handles for follow-ups. The adapter learns them locally.
Hardware requirements? +
Apple Silicon (M1+) on macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence enabled. Most clinic-issued Macs from the last few cycles qualify.

You're already documenting in the room with a patient. Your dictation, your encounter notes, and your case-conference recap should keep up, and PHI should stay where it belongs. Download Dollop and chart the next note before you walk out the door.

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