Indxit Systems Selects ScanSoft OmniPage Capture SDK from Nuance for InDxLogic GE Centricity Automated Document Indexing Service.

Leading OCR Toolkit Selected for InDxLogic Application to Automate the Indexing of Patient and Document Data for GE Centricity EMR; Significantly Lowers Document Management Labor Costs, Reduces Turnaround time 

BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Nuance Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that Indxit Systems, Inc. has selected the ScanSoft[R] OmniPage[R] Capture SDK to integrate automated document indexing within its InDxLogic solution for the GE Centricity EMR. The ScanSoft OmniPage Capture SDK is the world's leading solution for rapidly adding scanning, optical character recognition (OCR) and PDF capabilities to both commercial and in-house applications, delivering an unrivaled combination of accuracy and robust features to a wide range of applications.

Today, healthcare organizations are inundated with paper documents from a variety of disparate sources - emails, faxes, forms, handwritten notes, patient questionnaires, etc. - and the information within those documents is unstructured. This unstructured data presents a challenge to healthcare organizations that are working with electronic medical record (EMR) systems such as the GE Centricity EMR, in that the data must be manually indexed in order to be entered into the EMR. Indxit Systems, through its product line InDxLogic, is automating this process by leveraging the award-winning OCR within the ScanSoft OmniPage Capture SDK to quickly index this unstructured data from paper and other data sources, significantly lowering labor costs and boosting productivity.

"InDxLogic is an automated indexing service that requires no document preprocessing such as bar codes or separator sheets. Where document scanning is involved, our core matching algorithms depend on the OCR content that we are able to extract from image sources." said Michael Ebaugh, founder, Indxit Systems. "When it came to selecting a partner for the OCR and indexing piece of our solution, Nuance was the obvious choice. The OmniPage Capture SDK is the most accurate and easy-to-use toolkit that we have found, and it's a perfect fit for our InDxLogic application."

InDxLogic was developed for the GE Centricity EMR to manage document images using Nuance's OCR technology combined with Indxit Systems' search and string pattern matching techniques. With InDxLogic, the user simply scans a document, and that document is then submitted to a Remote Indexing Network (RIN) client application. The scanned document is processed leveraging the powerful OCR in the ScanSoft OmniPage Capture SDK, and the recognized content is matched against a reference database. A structured message of the document (HL7) is generated and returned to the EMR to be filed according to patient, document type and document content.

"The InDxLogic application is a perfect example of how our recognition technologies are being applied in the healthcare market to not only dramatically reduce costs and increase productivity, but also to ease the move towards electronic medical records" said Robert Weideman, senior vice president, Productivity Applications Division, Nuance. "We've made it easy with our OmniPage Capture SDK for organizations to apply the industry's most powerful OCR to tackle the piles of unstructured data locked in paper and electronic files that have been a real hurdle for the healthcare market in particular."

About the OmniPage Capture SDK

OmniPage Capture SDK technology is used by many of the commercial vendors that implement imaging and OCR capabilities, including Autodesk Raster Design, Canon imageWARE, EMC Captiva, CardScan, FileNET Capture, Kofax Ascent Capture, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office and SharePoint, Xerox DocuShare and more. It is also the technology used within the world's largest Web book scanning and search projects, and the only OCR indexing technology integrated with desktop search products, including Google Desktop Search. And OmniPage OCR from Nuance is used by millions everyday within the world's most accurate and popular desktop scanning, OCR and document conversion applications - ScanSoft[R] PaperPort[R], OmniPage[R] and PDF Converter Professional.

Indxit Systems

Indxit Systems applications represent an entirely new paradigm in automated document management that is based upon a novel method of indexing unstructured data from paper and other data sources. InDxLogic from Indxit Systems presently manages thousands of documents and their content for medical practices across the United States. Indxit Systems technology is used by of all Centricity enabled medical practices that have implemented automated indexing capabilities involving unstructured data derived from OCR. Indxit Systems applications significantly lower labor costs organizations presently direct towards document management. The GE Healthcare end user submits their document image to InDxLogic, then simply opens their electronic medical record (EMR) and the documents are filed according to patient, clinical date document type and document content. For more information, please visit InDxLogic.com

ScanSoft Imaging Solutions

Through unrivaled features, accuracy and performance, ScanSoft Imaging Solutions from Nuance eliminate barriers to productivity by enabling people and organizations to automate a range of document processes - increasing productivity, saving time and reducing costs. With products for enterprises, small-to-medium-sized businesses and home offices, ScanSoft Imaging Solutions are used to put the power of PDF on every business desktop; convert paper and PDF into documents that can be easily edited; and simplify scanning and document management using multifunction scanners and networked digital copiers. To experience new levels of productivity, please visit Nuance.com/ScanSoft.

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Nuance (Nasdaq: NUAN) is the 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 Nuance.com.

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