Dictaphone Launches Internet-Based Transcription Software for Healthcare Market; TransNet Solution Is First of an Array of Internet Initiatives Expected From Dictaphone.

STRATFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 1999--

Dictaphone Corporation's Integrated Healthcare Systems (IHS) division today announced it has begun shipping its TransNet(TM) software, an enhancement to the company's Enterprise Express(TM) dictation/transcription management system.

TransNet is designed to reduce the cost of supporting medical transcriptionists working at home or other remote locations by using inexpensive LAN or Internet connections.

TransNet lets remote workers make a single Internet connection to a central Enterprise Express system in order to receive voice files and associated patient data and upload completed typed reports. Remote transcriptionists have the full functionality of the Voice and Text management systems as if they were on site, avoiding the many problems associated with offline remote batch work.

TransNet is the first of many enhancements under development to make the company's Enterprise Express systems fully Internet-capable. "We're aggressively augmenting our system's features as well as working with a number of development partners to optimize our platform for the Internet," said Rob Schwager, senior vice president and general manager of Dictaphone's IHS division. "Approximately a quarter million doctors currently use Dictaphone Enterprise Express and Dictaphone legacy systems, and thousands more Enterprise Express users are being added each month. These healthcare customers increasingly want our voice and report management systems to be Web enabled and to be part of a variety of Web-based clinical and administrative applications, including those associated with the emerging healthcare Web portals such as Healtheon and Kinetra."

Schwager added that he expects further announcements later this year and noted that orders for the TransNet software already exceed 500 copies.

Dictaphone's Integrated Health Systems (IHS) division provides voice and data platforms for patient record management in hospitals, clinics, medical centers and physicians' offices. The Enterprise Express(TM) open-architecture family of products includes the Enterprise Express VoiceSystem and TextSystem, as well as flexible input alternatives such as the Walkabout(TM) Express digital recording device for mobile medical dictation, and the Boomerang Enterprise Edition(TM), which allows dictation from any networked PC. The company also markets a Continuous Speech Recognition system.

Dictaphone Corporation of Stratford, Conn., is a leader in the development, manufacture, marketing, service and support of Integrated Voice and Data Management systems and software, including dictation, digital portables, speech recognition, record management and communications recording. Dictaphone has a marketing, sales, service and support organization of more than 1,600 representatives in more than 160 cities in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland and Germany. The company also markets worldwide through a growing number of distributors in Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific, South Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

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