Custom Engineered, Medical-Specific Speech Recognition Software Creates Highly Accurate, More Complete and Transcription-Free Medical Records

Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading supplier of speech solutions, is today announcing that its healthcare division has crossed the 70,000 license threshold with its Dragon Medical speech recognition solution. Dragon Medical is the only version of Nuance’s Dragon® software family designed exclusively for use by healthcare providers to create electronic medical records. With 70,000 users, Dragon Medical is used by more than 10 percent of all physicians in the U.S.

Utilizing specialized medical vocabularies and seamless integration into all electronic medical record (EMR) systems, Dragon Medical empowers physicians, nurses and other caregivers to use their voice to document highly detailed medical reports at up to 99 percent accuracy. Eliminating hours of typing, clicking and scrolling, Dragon Medical lets clinicians describe the narrative of the patient encounter through free-form dictation, quickly navigate patient charts using spoken commands, and reduce or eliminate the cost of transcription. By combining point-and-click EMR templates with clinician speech-recognized dictation, healthcare provider organizations can create more complete medical records that generate higher levels of reimbursement, while improving provider productivity and patient care.

“Dragon Medical is the most widely used medical speech recognition software in clinical settings. Its highly accurate medical dictation recognition and ease of use in electronic medical record environments maximize physician productivity,” said Robert Wise, President Healthcare division, Nuance. “While Dragon Medical is part of Nuance’s broad family of Dragon speech solutions, it is the only Dragon product uniquely designed with medical specific linguistic and acoustic research. Healthcare provider organizations can easily incorporate Dragon Medical into their clinical documentation process, with no IT integration needed, for high out-of-the-box accuracy and rapid physician utilization.”

Major EMR vendors are supporting Dragon Medical as an element of EMR deployments. Dragon Medical makes EMRs easier to use by reducing the number of mouse clicks and typing required by clinicians to document care.