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0 Nuance Healthcare Development Platform Brings Medical Speech Recognition To the Cloud
Mar 1, 2011. Press Releases.ORLANDO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, from HIMSS, Nuance Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAN) announced that its industry-leading medical speech recognition capabilities and latest advancements in Clinical Language Understanding (CLU) technology will be available through the Nuance Healthcare Development Platform. With this new cloud-based platform, third-party developers, serving global markets, can rapidly incorporate Nuance Healthcare technologies as part of a wide variety of healthcare applications, providing users with new capabilities for speech-driven clinical documentation, voice navigation and automatic clinical fact extraction.
“By expanding access to Nuance’s speech recognition and Clinical Language Understanding capabilities, the Nuance Healthcare Development Platform is enabling application developers to unleash an entire new ecosystem of healthcare applications that will help clinicians and patients create and use high quality clinical documentation better and smarter than ever before.”
The Nuance Healthcare Development Platform supports multiple devices and operating systems. By providing all of the CPU intensive speech and language processing in the cloud, this new platform enables Healthcare ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) and internal development teams at provider and payer organizations to seamlessly embed Nuance’s SpeechAnywhere capabilities and CLU functionality as part of browser-based applications, mobile applications and thin-client desktop solutions. The flexible environment of this new platform as a service expands the delivery of Nuance’s speech and CLU technologies to empower healthcare organizations, physicians, interdisciplinary care teams and patients to achieve better patient documentation, better process and better care.
“Dictation has proven to be among the most preferred, intuitive and effective ways to document clinical information,” said Janet Dillione, executive vice president and general manager, Nuance Healthcare. “By expanding access to Nuance’s speech recognition and Clinical Language Understanding capabilities, the Nuance Healthcare Development Platform is enabling application developers to unleash an entire new ecosystem of healthcare applications that will help clinicians and patients create and use high quality clinical documentation better and smarter than ever before.”
The Nuance Healthcare Development Platform empowers developers to build a wide array of clinical solutions including ones that:
- Bring Cloud-based Speech Recognition to Smartphones, Tablets, PCs and Browser-based Applications – Enable physicians, nurses and other caregivers to dictate patient notes in real-time into clinical applications, such as electronic health records (EHR), running on an array of devices including the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
- Convert Narrative Clinical Documentation to Structured Data within an EHR – CLU will automatically extract key, structured clinical data from clinicians’ dictated notes: patient complaints and allergies, physician-assessed diagnoses, medication and procedural treatments, and health-related habits.
- Automate Information Retrieval at the Point-of-Care – While at a patient’s bedside, in their office or at home, clinicians can simply dictate a search query to access desired information. Whether the clinician is looking for updated patient test results or clinical information from an EHR, clinical data repository or other source of medical content, it can be easily accessed via a mobile device.
- Collect Patient Information – Deploy advanced speech capabilities on PCs, patient Kiosks and mobile devices to enable patients to speak their key medical information, including history of present illness, current medications and allergies.
Nuance Healthcare Developer Quotes
Industry leaders that have already integrated capabilities from the Platform as part of their solutions include: Epocrates and Calgary Scientific.
“ResolutionMD Mobile, powered by PureWeb, delivers secure, full-functionality advanced visualization of 2D and 3D, medical images and associated patient reports directly to mobile devices, including the iPhone and iPad. By incorporating Nuance’s new cloud-based speech recognition capabilities into the ResolutionMD workflow, clinicians will experience an enhanced level of efficiency,” said Randy Rountree, executive vice president of global sales and marketing at Calgary Scientific. “Our mobile development team was able to rapidly access the Nuance Healthcare Development Platform and easily incorporate cloud-based, real-time speech recognition as an upcoming feature of the ResolutionMD Mobile reporting functionality. Now, our customers will benefit from the ability to view images and create reports instantly via speech-recognized dictation from within the same app.”
Epocrates has incorporated Nuance’s SpeechAnywhere technology as part of its web-based EHR solution. Aimed to meet the unique needs of solo and small group physician practices, Epocrates’ EHR solution incorporates Nuance-powered speech functionality, which enables physicians to easily capture information – any time (day or night), any where (in the office, in the car, at home) and on any device (desktop, iPhone, iPad, etc.). Physicians will benefit from the ease-of-access to, and flexibility in creating medical records, as well as from the immediate availability of clinical notes for the entire care team, leading to faster and better patient care.
The Healthcare Development Platform incorporates many advanced capabilities including:
- Rapid Application Integration – Application developers can integrate the core SpeechAnywhere functionality in a matter of minutes reducing time to market.
- Flexible, Multi-Modal Applications – Clinicians can freely mix voice, touch and typing to control and document within their applications, creating a seamless user experience.
- Specialized Medical Speech and Language Models – With Nuance’s leading medical speech technology embedded, users will achieve high levels of accuracy and automatic data formatting, minimizing the need for corrections.
- HIPPA Supportive Security – With HIPAA supportive security and encryption features, users can be sure of data security and privacy.
- Supports Multiple Devices and Operating Platforms – Enables SpeechAnywhere capabilities for applications operating within browsers running on Windows and Mac OSX environments, .NET applications running on Windows desktops and the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Future versions of the platform will support an expanded list of computing platforms, mobile devices and operating systems.
The Nuance Healthcare Developer Program
Through the Nuance Healthcare Developer Program <http://www.nuance.com/for-healthcare/developers-program/index.htm> healthcare developers can gain instant access to Nuance’s medical speech recognition technologies for rapid inclusion into their applications, all through a self-service website. Developers also have access to an on-line forum for additional support, a variety of code samples and full documentation. To learn more about the Program and the Platform please visit: http://www.nuance.com/for-healthcare/development-platform/index.htm
As part of Nuance’s ongoing commitment to integrate the Company’s worldwide technologies and solutions, the Nuance Healthcare Development Platform has been fully designed to support both the Dragon and SpeechMagic speech engines, as well as a variety of international languages. The initial version of the Nuance Healthcare Development Platform will be commercially available by the end the first quarter of 2011 and will support the Dragon speech engine for U.S. English. In releases scheduled for calendar Q4, 2011 SpeechMagic and international language support will be added.
While at HIMSS, visit Nuance at booth #2744 to learn more about the Nuance Healthcare Development Platform and the entire healthcare portfolio. For more information on CLU visit: http://www.nuance.com/for-healthcare/resources/clu/index.htm
Nuance Healthcare
In the era of Accountable Healthcare, where there is shared responsibility for the quality and cost of patient care, Nuance Healthcare’s portfolio of Medical Intelligence solutions empower healthcare provider organizations, payers and individual physicians worldwide to deliver higher quality care, improve financial performance and enhance compliance efforts. Nuance Healthcare employs a range of technologies and services as part of its full portfolio – speech recognition, clinical language understanding, decision support, test results management and data analysis.
For additional information on Nuance’s healthcare IT solutions visit: http://www.nuance.com/for-healthcare/index.htm
Nuance Communications
Nuance Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.
About Calgary Scientific Inc.
Calgary Scientific is dedicated to providing advanced web-enablement, mobility enhancement and advanced visualization solutions to industries looking for secure access and use of their data or graphics intensive applications, while using their existing systems. All of these products demonstrate a leading edge web and mobile enablement capability made possible with the unique power of PureWeb™. Calgary Scientific also has proprietary intellectual property for image fusion, virtual colonoscopy and Computer Assisted Tissue Identification (CATI™). Calgary Scientific aims to be the premier leader and provider of truly accessible, advanced visualization solutions, in the medical imaging market, as well as the industry leaders in web and mobility enablement technologies. For more information on Calgary Scientific, go to www.calgaryscientific.com.
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Statements in this document regarding Nuance managements’ future expectations, beliefs, goals, plans or prospects constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any statements that are not statements of historical fact (including statements containing the words “believes,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “expects,” or “estimates” or similar expressions) should also be considered to be forward-looking statements. There are a number of important factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements, including: fluctuations in demand for Nuance’s existing and future products; economic conditions in the United States and abroad; the effects of competition, including pricing pressure; possible defects in Nuance’s products and technologies; the ability of Nuance to successfully integrate operations and employees of acquired businesses; the ability to realize anticipated synergies from acquired businesses; and the other factors described in Nuance’s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2010 and Nuance’s quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Nuance disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of developments occurring after the date of this document.
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0 Medical Messenger’s AstralJet V4 Receives ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Certification
Dec 13, 2010. Press Releases.DELRAY BEACH, Fla., Dec. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Medical Messenger, an innovative healthcare technology company is proud to announce that its AstralJet Version 4 is now certified to meet 2011-2012 criteria supporting Stage 1 Meaningful Use requirements under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) as a Complete EHR by the Drummond Group. The certification deems the electronic health record (EHR) software capable of enabling providers to meet the Stage 1 meaningful use measures required to qualify for incentive payments under the ARRA.
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This EHR Module is 2011/2012 compliant and has been certified by an ONC-ATCB in accordance with the applicable certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This certification does not represent an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or guarantee the receipt of incentive payments.
“Our target is the smaller practices nationwide. As a SaaS model, Internet-based product our EHR/PM services can easily be delivered to providers nationwide. At $399 a month per provider without any installation, training or hidden fees, AstralJet is ONC certified, easy to use, and the lowest cost to operate Complete EHR in the market,” said founder, Dr. Mark Freeman. ”The First True 21st Century EHR/PM System—ASTRALJET V4 has all the features and functions for Meaningful Use certification, without overwhelming the practice with technology.”
The major features of AstralJet V4 are:
Certified – AstralJet is ONC Certified and ready for Meaningful Use by providers.
No Breach Potential – All data is encrypted either at rest on our database, or during exchange of patient health information.
eDocs – AstralJet has a “mini-PACS” feature that receives, stores, archives and retrieves images from JPEGS to PDFs to DICOMs
eCaching – our eCaching option is setup for Disaster Recovery purposes to give any practice a level of comfort in case of extreme emergency.Pricing – Our monthly subscription price is set for all provider’s, be they in affluent or low-income areas.
ePrescribing – full electronic prescription services.
Data Entry –Voice Recognition – for the providers that prefer to avoid typing, AstralJet will work with a provider’s copy of Dragon Medical 10 or above.
Handwriting – for providers that prefer to write theirnotes, AstralJet works with the handwriting technology available on most tablets.
Mike Hahl, AstralJet Product Manager says that “as 10 year veterans in testing software across many different industries, we were pleased to work with The Drummond Group for 2011/2012 certification. As with most processes, the first time you execute is the most difficult and the professionals at Drummond performed with precision.”
About Drummond Group
Drummond Group Inc., the trusted software test lab, provides effective and efficient electronic health record (EHR) testing to healthcare information technology vendors. As an Office of the National Coordinator Authorized Testing and Certification Body (ONC-ATCB), Drummond Group works closely with healthcare software vendors to certify EHRs for use by providers that are looking to qualify for incentive funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
About Medical Messenger
For more information about AstralJet V4 please contact Michael Hahl or Keisha Salvant at 1-800-965-9959 or email us at mhahl@emrmessenger.com or ksalvant@emrmessenger.com or visit our website at www.emrmessenger.com.
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0 Frisbee Pro® Transcription Workflow Solution: North American Market Debut
Dec 11, 2010. Dragon Medical.
(EHR Scope – December 11, 2010) – Frisbee Pro® is a new transcription workflow solution that has just been released in North America. What makes this module so interesting is that it is integrated with speech recognition technology. The software experienced success in its original EU market, with major clients such as The United Nations (UN Offices at Geneva), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and multinationals ING and William Fry. The detailed customization of the author and transcriptionist profiles, for multiple workflows, is the key to Frisbee’s initial success. There are infinite possibilities for author and transcriptionist messaging profiles: one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to one and many-to-many. Moreover, as a fully HIPAA and HL7 compliant solution, making its debut in the midst of the ARRA EHR Stimulus and Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) reform, Frisbee’s timing could not have been better.
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0 Nuance and Minnesota’s Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) Spearhead the First Statewide Effort to Help Ensure Patients Receive Appropriate High-Tech Diagnostic Imaging Tests
Nov 10, 2010. Press Releases.BURLINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is today announcing that the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI), a nonprofit organization whose members include 60 medical groups and six sponsoring health plans throughout Minnesota and surrounding states, has licensed Nuance’s RadPort, an electronic, evidence-based, decision-support (e-Ordering) solution to support a statewide initiative to help ensure Minnesotans only receive medically appropriate high-tech (MRI, CT, PET and nuclear cardiology) diagnostic imaging (HTDI) tests.
“At Fairview Health Services, we’re ecstatic over this option. It helps our physicians get patients the right test the first time without an administrative hassle. It flows seamlessly into the normal office procedure and consumes no extra time”
The ICSI initiative, which is the first of its kind in the country, is expected to save the Minnesota healthcare community more than $28 million annually. In addition, ICSI will use Nuance’s RadCube software solution to analyze physician-ordering trends in parallel with patients’ actual clinical outcomes.
“This is an exciting statewide initiative that will yield many patient, provider, health plan and community benefits, and potentially serve as a national model for how to help reduce the more than $100 billion spent annually on high-tech diagnostic imaging tests across the U.S,” said Cally Vinz, vice president of clinical products and strategic initiatives, ICSI. “With Nuance’s electronic decision-support and patient outcome analysis solution, we will work to guide appropriate ordering at the point-of-order to ensure the best exam is ordered for the patient every time. We will also have better insight into physician ordering habits and their impact on patient care.”
After a yearlong pilot program, in which more than 4,000 physicians from five Minnesota medical groups, five health plans (Allina Medical Clinic, Fairview Health Services, HealthPartners Medical Group, Park Nicollet Health Services, and St. Mary’s/Duluth Clinic Health System, BlueCross Blue Shield of Minnesota, HealthPartners, Medica, and UCare) and the Minnesota Department of Human Services used e-Ordering to order HTDI exams, it was found that the exams ordered with evidence-based decision-support technology had an increase in medical appropriateness versus orders initiated without it. The pilot also showed that using decision-support appropriateness criteria in the physician’s office reduced patient exposure to unnecessary radiation, and contributed to a 0 percent increase in HTDI scans ordered in 2007 (following an 8 percent increase in Minnesota in 2006). During the time of the pilot, an estimated $28 million in healthcare cost savings was reported.
Since the pilot, all five medical groups have continued to use the decision-support criteria. The groups report improved patient satisfaction and clinic efficiencies, as well as a reduction in administrative costs. In total, it is estimated that by using e-Ordering for the past three years, the five medical groups have helped save Minnesota $84 million, as there has not been an increase in the use of HTDI scans in Minnesota since 2007.
A Different Approach to Prior Notification
As part of this ICSI-led initiative, Nuance is helping Minnesota medical groups order HTDI exams in the way Minnesota insurers reimburse them, which will reduce administrative costs. Medical groups that use RadPort will likely be able to forego Radiology Benefit Management (RBM) prior notification procedures that require the time-consuming task of completing phone calls to RBM companies to gain assurance of insurer reimbursement for the exam. An RBM is an organization employed by healthcare insurers to manage utilization and costs associated with high-tech diagnostic exams.
With the RadPort process, ordering clinicians enter patient-specific information along with the requested exam into the e-Ordering system; based on the exam’s utility score (clinical appropriateness) the system will either verify the order or provide alternative procedures that better suit the patient’s indications. The physician can then select the recommended procedure, or override the system’s suggestion to move ahead with their originally requested exam.
“At Fairview Health Services, we’re ecstatic over this option. It helps our physicians get patients the right test the first time without an administrative hassle. It flows seamlessly into the normal office procedure and consumes no extra time,” said Barry Bershow, MD, vice president, quality, Fairview Health Services, Minneapolis, MN.
RadPort provides access to a common set of decision-support appropriateness criteria (via direct integration into an electronic health record (EHR) or via a standalone Web portal). RadPort’s appropriateness criteria contains more than 15,000 clinical guidelines that are continuously updated in accordance with patient demographics, imaging procedures, the American College of Radiology (ACR) Appropriateness Criteria®, as well as input from a clinical committee at Massachusetts General Hospital and other leading clinical partners across the country.
Provider Support and Patient Benefits
Electronic decision-support benefits providers, health plans and patients alike. In addition to avoiding the expenses and inefficiency of phone-in RBM prior notification, providers have immediate information about the usefulness of the high-tech imaging test they want to order. Furthermore, the immediate feedback from the RadPort system eliminates patient’s wait times for exam scheduling, reduces the risk of unnecessary radiation exposure, can enhance the patient-physician relationship through point-of-order shared decision making, and expedites high-tech imaging by increasing the likelihood that patients have the appropriate diagnostic study already done when they are referred onto a specialist.
“The ICSI solution is a win-win-win. Physicians aren’t hassled, the patient receives the right test and avoids unnecessary radiation, and the payer – whether health plan, employer, government or patient – incurs no unnecessary expense,” said Patrick Courneya, MD, medical director for care delivery systems, HealthPartners Health Plan.
Nuance’s RadCube software solution will be available for use by Minnesota medical groups and hospital-based clinics that adopt the decision-support e-Ordering option. RadCube is a Web-based intelligence tool for the collection, analysis and sharing of data that can be viewed via one interface for instantaneous analytics to drive appropriate order monitoring, forecasting, and provider productivity. ICSI will also have access to the de-identified data of all medical groups using RadCube, thereby improving the state’s knowledge of which diagnostic imaging tests get the best patient outcomes.
Nuance Working on National Level to Address Costly Inappropriate Imaging
“In alignment with President Obama’s healthcare reform goals, the initiative to reduce unnecessary exams, costs and administrative efforts that do not contribute to better patient care and improved patient outcome is an area ripe for change,” said Mike Mardini, vice president of medical imaging at Nuance. “The ICSI effort is a shining example of how we nationally should be applying healthcare IT to meaningfully impact patient care and cost of delivery. Electronic decision-support provides physicians with the information they need at the point-of-order to support the best care delivery plan possible for the patient. In addition to the $28 million dollars the ICSI initiative is expected to save annually, patients will miss less work, as well as spend less time and money on travel, day-care and co-pays associated with diagnostic imaging tests they do not need.”
As part of this nationwide effort, Nuance co-founded the Imaging e-Ordering Coalition with the Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI). This Coalition is compromised of members including Nuance, the Advanced Radiology Consultants, Alliance for Quality Imaging, American College of Radiology (ACR), CDI, Connecticut State Medical Society – IPA, GE Healthcare, Insight Imaging, MedCurrent, Medicalis Corporation, Merge Healthcare and Radnet. Currently, the Coalition is focused on educating the U.S. Congress on issues inline with the ICSI initiative. The Coalition is promoting Health Information Technology enabled decision-support (e-Ordering) as a solution to assure that all patients receive the most medically appropriate diagnostic imaging test for their specific condition at that time of care.
For more information on all of Nuance’s healthcare solutions please visit http://www.nuance.com/for-healthcare/index.htm.
Nuance’s Healthcare Business
Nuance’s healthcare portfolio of proven, speech-enabled clinical documentation and communication solutions enable healthcare provider organizations to improve financial performance, enhance patient care, and increase patient safety. With more than 10,000 healthcare provider organization customers and 450,000 clinician customers worldwide, Nuance has the experience and solutions that meet the individual needs of any size healthcare provider organization.
Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications and professional services. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement
Founded in 1993 by HealthPartners, Mayo Clinic and Park Nicollet Health Services, ICSI today is comprised of 60 medical group and hospital members representing 9,000 physicians in Minnesota and surrounding states, and is sponsored by six health plans in Minnesota and Wisconsin. An independent, nonprofit organization, ICSI’s mission is to champion health care quality and help its members implement best clinical practices for their patients. ICSI is also leading the transformation of the health care system into a more patient-centered and value-driven entity.
Nuance, RadPort, RadCube and the Nuance logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other company names or product names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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6 eClinicalWorks, Nuance Dragon Medical and iPad Functionality (Includes Video)
Oct 15, 2010. Companies in Action, Dragon Medical, Insight, News, Videos.
A sales representative for eClinicalWorks stopped in the EHR Scope offices today to preview some new technology. Apparently, through remote connectivity, eClinicalWorks EHR is controllable by an iPad. After seeing the demonstration, I was pleasantly surprised to see how well everything worked.
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0 EHR/ EMR workflow and peripherals; different solutions for different practices
Sep 30, 2010. Dragon Medical, Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Opinion, PHR.We all know about the conflict that is being played up about individuals and practices having to “adopt” or “learn new technology” for implementation of an EHR. Perhaps as an industry we are looking at the issue from the wrong direction. While Doctors and practices research the various options for EMRs, PHRs, digital data transmission and maintenance solutions; it is easy to get overwhelmed by the myriad of negative opinion. The focus should be on what different technologies should be added to the current workflow; not on how technologies will change the current workflow. In this light, transitions into cost saving technologies stand a better chance to be fluid and functional.
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0 Richard Yonis Interviews Rohit Nayak, Vice President of Physician Technology Solutions at MedPlus
Mar 31, 2010. Health Information Technology.At HIMSS10, Richard Yonis, Executive Producer for EHRtv, had the pleasure of speaking with Rohit Nayak, Vice President of Physician Technology Solutions at MedPlus, the healthcare information technology subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics. Specifically, they had the opportunity to discuss how MedPlus’ unique market approach is bringing tremendous success to the company. Rohit shared that much of this success is attributed to MedPlus’ in-depth understanding of medical providers’ needs as digitization of electronic health data becomes more prevalent.
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4 Dragon Medical 10.1
Jul 27, 2009. Dragon Medical.Dragon Medical Version 10 is by far the best version of speech recognition software that Nuance has manufactured since its inception back in the early 90s. However, one of the major features that Version 10 was lacking was the ability for the software to work on the new 64-bit computers.
Nuance recently announced, Dragon Medical 10.1 which offers:
Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit Editions Support. Dragon Medical can now be installed and supported on 64-bit operating systems.
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Voice Shortcuts for Medical Web Search. Ability to use shortcuts for WebMD, UpToDate, PubMed and ICD-9.
Medical Templates. Enables you to dictate various visits and medical normals. -
1 Dragon Medical Accelerates Transition to EHR
Apr 22, 2009. Dragon Medical.CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading supplier of speech solutions, today announced results from a new study that shows how Nuance’s Dragon Medical® software, the healthcare industry’s most widely used real-time speech recognition software, can significantly accelerate the transition to, and utilization of electronic health records (EHRs).
As EHRs have risen to the forefront of the healthcare information technology (HIT) agenda at the physician, provider organization, government and consumer levels, Dragon Medical software is increasingly recognized as an essential component to successful EHR rollout. According to a survey completed by 1,255 physicians who have adopted Nuance’s Dragon Medical software:
- 83 percent said that it improved the quality of their electronic patient notes;
- 81 percent said that it significantly reduced transcription spending; and,
- 69 percent said it made their EHR faster and easier to use.
Despite strong endorsements for EHRs, their adoption is lagging. Today, less than two percent of U.S. hospitals have fully switched to EHRs, according to a study from the New England Journal of Medicine that was released on March 25, 2009, and a third of the 3,000 hospitals surveyed cited reluctance among doctors to change work habits as a leading hurdle. To facilitate EHR migration further, Nuance is collaborating with leading EHR vendors, such as Allscripts, to launch the Dragon Medical EHR Certification Program. While Dragon Medical software already works “out-of-the-box” with more than 150 EHR systems, the Certification Program is designed to optimize clinician use of EHRs by introducing a new standard of speech recognition interoperability.
“Our physician clients have embraced Dragon Medical as the primary and best means of speech-enabling their electronic health records, because Dragon Medical helps them to quickly and easily create high-quality, real-time patient documentation,” said Glen Tullman, chief executive officer of Allscripts. “Speech is a key component of the electronic healthcare revolution, and Nuance’s certification program will ensure that physicians have a reliable list of electronic health records that will optimize their use of this vital clinical capability.”
As part of the Dragon Medical EHR Certification Program, EHR vendors complete a Nuance-managed evaluation during which they work with Nuance engineers to further optimize The Dragon Medical software’s interoperability with their EHR. By adding this additional layer of interoperability, physicians and healthcare organizations can confidently make their EHR migration, knowing speech recognition is not only possible, but has been pre-tested and optimized for utmost clinician efficiency.
Dragon Medical and the EHR, Accelerating the Transition
“The biggest challenge facing the roll-out of electronic medical records contemplated in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is achieving meaningful use without adding to physicians’ documentation burden. This can be accomplished by closely coordinating voice entry with structured notes, rather than treating voice and structured entry as an ‘either-or’ proposition,” said Wes Rishel, vice president and analyst in Gartner’s healthcare provider research practice.
As the Health and Human Services Department works to define “meaningful use” of an EHR, Nuance believes that Dragon Medical software can help physicians and organizations move toward complying with what will ultimately be considered “meaningful” EHR use, by ensuring that clinicians actually utilize the EHR and that the physician narrative is not lost during the documentation process. As proven by the more than 100,000 physicians already using Dragon Medical software to dictate the narrative component of their patient visits, speech-driven clinical documentation is available in real-time, notes are more complete and patient care is improved.
“Today, more than 20 percent of all physicians in North America use speech solutions from Nuance to generate over 800 million electronic medical records a year,” said Peter Durlach, senior vice president of marketing and product strategy, Nuance Healthcare. “Dragon Medical is increasingly recognized as an essential component to EHR rollout as healthcare provider organizations work to implement, and effectively utilize EHR systems to comply with the federal government’s five-year adoption goal, as well as earn their fair share of incentive payments from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.”
Dragon Medical software is proven to make clinicians up to 25 percent more efficient with an EHR when compared to using a non voice-enabled system. And, as supported by a May 2007 report issued by KLAS, 76 percent of clinicians using “desktop” speech recognition – to directly control an EHR system – report faster medical report turn-around time, better service to patients, sharply reduced costs and increased productivity. Benefits for healthcare organizations that provide physicians with a speech-enabled EHR include:
- Reduced Transcription Costs – By enabling clinicians to dictate directly into the EHR system with real-time speech recognition, healthcare provider organizations can eliminate significant operating costs associated with traditional manual transcription.
- Faster Medical Report Creation - Using speech, physicians can create patient documents at the point of care, resulting in faster turn-around times and more accurate, thorough patient records.
- More Detailed Documentation - According to physicians, the narrative is the most important part of a patient note. A medical record that combines point-and-click EHR templates with dictated physician narrative promotes ongoing higher quality care.
- Increased Overall User Productivity and Satisfaction – By using speech recognition to navigate and dictate directly into the EHR system, clinicians can eliminate hours of typing, clicking and scrolling, allowing them to spend more time providing high quality patient care and increasing their satisfaction with the entire documentation process.
For more information on the Dragon Medical EHR Certification Program or Dragon Medical software visit http://www.nuance.com/CertifiedEHRs.
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2 Research? Seems that 80,000 doctors may feel differently
Feb 2, 2009. Dragon Medical, Insight, Politics and HIT.If you ask Nuance about Dragon Medical, they will proudly state that it is being used by more physicians than any individual EMR/EHR.
Their published statistics indicate that there are currently 80,000 phyisican users of Dragon Medical speech recognition (aka voice recognition) software.
So, needless to say, I was more than a little surprised to find one small comment about it in the 647 page American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
But yes, there it is, on page 436, we find the following:
(4) RESEARCH AREAS.—Research areas may include—
(A) interfaces between human information and communications technology systems;
(B) voice-recognition systems;It certainly seems to me that voice-recognition systems should be considered more than ‘Research’!
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