[jashephe]

It sounds like you want a dictation mic. Philips’s SpeechMike and OM System’s (formerly Olympus) RecMic are big in the healthcare space. My SpeechMike is wireless with a USB dongle and has something akin to a trackpoint for mouse movement, and buttons that can be programmed to send keystrokes.

Dictation mics are not cheap, unfortunately, but you may be able to get used ones for much less.

[nubinetwork]

You can probably find a nuance powermic 2 for like 50 bucks on eBay...

[kotaKat]

They go for closer to $100-150 for a ‘good’ working one, sadly. (They’re also the object of my nightmares, having supported them professionally.)

[nubinetwork]

Me too, we switched to the mobile app because we got tired of doctors throwing them onto the floor... they're not bad hardware, people just treat them like trash because we got rid of our voicemail based dictation system.

[kotaKat]

There's two camps of users I noticed: the users that absolutely adore Dragon, and the users that absolutely adore the voicemail dictation department.

Annoyingly, the users that absolutely adore Dragon were the ones that kept throwing them on the floor, because Dragon's implementation was such hot garbage that it kept nuking our doctors' profiles right out of the water.

I'm now going to scream thinking about all the calls I also fielded for the voicemail system having 'poor quality' depending on where you were calling in from...