<p>For a doctor, medical confidentiality isn't a buzzword — it's professional law. Yet many practices use dictation tools where patient data ends up on third-party servers, often without realising it.</p>
<p>Mundwerk solves this problem.</p>
<h2>The problem with cloud dictation</h2>
<p>Most speech recognition apps — whether Apple Dictation, Google Voice, or cloud-based dictation services — send audio data or transcripts to external servers. For everyday notes that may be acceptable. For patient data, it's a GDPR problem.</p>
<p>Article 9 of the GDPR protects health data as a particularly sensitive category. Transmission to cloud services without explicit patient consent — which is rarely practical to obtain — is legally questionable. Supervisory authorities have already imposed fines for similar violations.</p>
<h2>How Mundwerk changes the practice</h2>
<p>With Mundwerk, every spoken word stays on the doctor's own Mac. Processing is handled by Whisper — OpenAI's leading speech model — fully offline. Not one byte leaves the device.</p>
<p>In daily practice, that looks like this:</p>
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<li><strong>Anamnesis</strong> dictated directly into the EMR while the patient is still in the room</li>
<li><strong>Doctor's letters</strong> spoken instead of typed — at 3–4 letters per day, that saves 30–45 minutes</li>
<li><strong>ICD codes and medical terminology</strong> reliably recognised — including complex diagnoses</li>
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<h2>Privacy comparison</h2>
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<th>Criterion</th>
<th>Apple Dictation</th>
<th>Cloud-based solutions</th>
<th><strong>Mundwerk</strong></th>
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<td>Data local</td>
<td class="cross">No (Siri backend)</td>
<td class="cross">No</td>
<td class="check">Yes</td>
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<td>No server upload</td>
<td class="cross">No</td>
<td class="cross">No</td>
<td class="check">Yes</td>
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<td>GDPR-friendly</td>
<td>questionable</td>
<td>questionable</td>
<td class="check">Yes</td>
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<td>One-time purchase</td>
<td>free</td>
<td class="cross">Subscription</td>
<td class="check">€14.99 <span style="opacity:.75;font-size:.85em">(€8.99 with <code>LAUNCH</code> until 2026-06-19)</span></td>
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<h2>Medical terminology: where other solutions fail</h2>
<p>Whisper — the heart of Mundwerk — is significantly more accurate on medical terminology than Apple's built-in dictation. Diagnoses like <em>arteriosclerosis</em>, <em>hypothyroidism</em>, or <em>cholecystolithiasis</em> are reliably recognised without tedious manual correction.</p>
<p>The learning function reinforces this advantage: correct a word once, and Mundwerk remembers the correction. Practice-specific vocabulary — drug names, internal abbreviations, common diagnoses — becomes increasingly accurate over time.</p>
<h2>Limitations</h2>
<p>Mundwerk runs exclusively on macOS with Apple Silicon. Anyone still working on Intel Macs or Windows needs a different solution.</p>
<p>Mundwerk is also not specialised practice software: there's no EMR integration, no structured dictation templates, no automatic forwarding into document management systems. It's a universal dictation tool — which happens to also work very well for medical documentation.</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>For practices that take privacy seriously, Mundwerk isn't an alternative — it's the only sensible choice among available Mac dictation solutions. The combination of Whisper quality, fully offline processing, and one-time purchase price makes it the privacy-compliant foundation for daily documentation.</p>
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