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Orthopedic dictation software for Mac

Loquen is orthopedic dictation software for Mac: hold one key, talk, let go, and clean, punctuated text lands at your cursor on your Mac. Its Orthopedics pack holds 218 terms, so Lisfranc injury, the Lachman test and Osgood-Schlatter disease come out spelled the way you write them.

What the Orthopedics pack covers

In the pack’s own words: Orthopedic surgery and musculoskeletal vocabulary covering fracture eponyms, arthroplasty and arthroscopy, hardware, physical examination maneuvers, and rehabilitation terms. That is 218 entries. Each one is the spelling you want typed, most with the mishearings a general speech model produces for it. When a term shows up in a dictation, the AI cleanup is told not to “correct” it.

• Colles fracture
• Galeazzi fracture
• Monteggia fracture
• Jones fracture
• Hill-Sachs lesion
• Bankart lesion
• SLAP tear
• Salter-Harris classification
• intertrochanteric fracture
• trimalleolar fracture
• cephalomedullary nail
• Kirschner wire
• total knee arthroplasty
• Latarjet procedure
• transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion
• McMurray test
• Thessaly test
• Spurling test
• FABER test
• de Quervain tenosynovitis
• femoroacetabular impingement
• slipped capital femoral epiphysis
• spondylolisthesis
• Kellgren-Lawrence grade
• weight-bearing as tolerated
• viscosupplementation

A sample of 26 of the 218 terms, exactly as the pack types them.

What you say, what gets typed

The left column is how a general speech model tends to write the spoken words. The pack swaps it for the right column before the text is pasted.

How it fits the day

Say the exam, the weight-bearing status or the operative summary the way you would say it aloud. Loquen pastes at the cursor in any app with a text field, including an EHR in the browser. Double-tap the key for hands-free; Esc cancels with nothing pasted.

The pack works alongside Medical core (2,307 terms, built around drug names, generic and brand, plus exam language, labs and imaging) and Pharmacology, which covers the long tail of drug classes. Every pack is included in the price. The packs are English only so far.

The pack also ships a starter set of phrases. A phrase is a named block of text: say its name anywhere in a sentence and the whole block pastes, untouched by the AI. Rename the starters, rewrite them, or add your own.

Private by default

Speech to text and AI cleanup run on the Mac’s own chip. In Private mode, the default, nothing you say leaves the computer: no audio, no text. The initial approximately 2.2 GB model download uses the network but carries no dictation. After setup, licence validation and update checks can use the network and carry no audio or text. No account, no telemetry, no screenshots. Built for HIPAA the simple way: patient notes never touch a server, so there is no server to trust. HIPAA compliance is about a practice’s whole workflow, so check with your compliance officer.