Total eScription Million Dollar Club Savings Surpasses $93 Million; Customer Satisfaction and Growth for Background Speech Recognition Continues

At its annual eScription user meeting (May 18-19 in Boston), Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading supplier of speech solutions, gave special recognition to its 2009 eScription customer Million Dollar Award recipients. Twenty healthcare organizations from across the U.S. were acknowledged for saving one million dollars or more in transcription costs as a result of implementing the eScription platform for computer aided medical transcription (CAMT). Also at the event, two organizations received the annual productivity award, which is presented to eScription customers with in-house medical transcriptionists (MTs) that achieved an average productivity gain over the past year of more than 125 percent.

The eScription platform uses background speech recognition to create high-quality draft documents that MTs (whether in-house or employed by an outsourced service) quickly review and edit, typically doubling productivity.