Oct. 6, 2009 (Business Wire) -- Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), introduces version 8 of the Dictaphone Enterprise Speech System, the market leading on-site platform for speech-assisted medical transcription (MT) and real-time electronic clinical documentation. An enhanced version of the Enterprise Workstation (EWS) module is also now available. EWS presents physicians with the option to dictate, self-correct, and electronically sign medical reports in a single-step; the system also provides physicians the option to leverage MT editing support if preferred.

“By delivering both real-time speech capabilities and background-speech-assisted transcription as part of a single on-site platform, we are enabling healthcare provider organizations to address various physician documentation preferences and more importantly reduce the amount of money spent on clinical documentation,” said Peter Durlach, senior vice president of marketing and product strategy, Nuance Healthcare. “The Dictaphone Enterprise Speech System, combined with the Enterprise Workstation helps to streamline the way medical records are created, edited, and signed.”

With the traditional Dictaphone Enterprise Speech System workflow, physicians dictate into a telephone, dictation station, PC-based digital recorder or wireless PDA while background speech recognition technology translates their dictations into highly accurate, formatted draft documents for MTs to review and edit. Now, with version 8 of the Dictaphone Enterprise Speech System physicians have enhanced capability to complete medical reports in real-time by leveraging the upgraded EWS. Through use of EWS, healthcare organizations can significantly reduce costs by creating electronic medical reports at the point of care.

Version 8 of the Dictaphone Enterprise Speech System delivers a variety of significant enhancements, including:

• Enhanced Voice Recognition for Reduced Word Error Rate by up to 30 Percent – Enterprise Workstation is powered by an upgraded Dragon Medical speech engine and offers new language models to significantly reduce user word-error rate, speed report creation and streamline editing.
• Simplified Speech Configuration and Management – Improved administrative capabilities enable health information managers to easily assign clinicians’ dictation for background speech recognition and editing or for another workflow, based on the physician, documentation type and turnaround priority.
• Improved Quality Assurance Workflow – Updated, automated delivery of clinical documents ensure high quality reviews on all medical reports.