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Nuance Introduces DragonConnect for Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical and Dictaphone Enterprise Express Customers.


New Product Allows Healthcare Customers to Maximize Combined Benefits of Leading General Purpose Desktop Speech Recognition Application and Enterprise wide Dictation and Transcription Solution

NEW ORLEANS New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded  -- Nuance Communications Nuance Communications is a computer software technology company. Their current worldwide headquarters is in Burlington, Massachusetts in the United States. Nuance provides speech and imaging solutions and is mainly known for its speech recognition and speech synthesis software that , Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ
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: NUAN NUAN New User Action Notation (modeling language) ), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today introduced DragonConnect[TM] for Dragon[R] NaturallySpeaking[R] Medical customers at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS HIMSS Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society ) show taking place in New Orleans February 25th - March 1st. With DragonConnect, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical customers will be able to take advantage of the enterprise wide dictation, transcription and speech recognition capabilities of the Dictaphone Enterprise Express solution to maximize their clinical documentation effectiveness.

With Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical, healthcare providers dictate directly into third party clinical information and Electronic Medical Record ("EMR (ElectroMagnetic Radiation) The emanation of energy from everything in the universe. Although the EMR from electrical and electronic devices is typically measured for practical, every-day situations, every object, including humans, emanates energy. ") applications thereby reducing the cost of transcription, improving report turnaround time (1) In batch processing, the time it takes to receive finished reports after submission of documents or files for processing. In an online environment, turnaround time is the same as response time.  and increasing overall adoption rates of these clinical information systems. Many Dragon NaturallySpeaking customers have expressed the need to have the ability to send specific reports to transcription services in instances where they do not have the time to manually review the speech recognized report themselves. DragonConnect will support this capability by providing a software bridge between Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical and Dictaphone's Enterprise Express[R] family of integrated dictation and transcription solutions, including EXVoice[TM] and EXText[TM]. DragonConnect Version 1.0 will support the following integrated workflows:

DragonConnect and EXVoice

In this workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. , Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical users will be able to send a full dictated audio report to the EXVoice dictation system using a voice command or microphone control. The dictated report will then be routed to the appropriate transcriptionist for transcription. The transcribed text can be entered directly into the host clinical information system or other third party application.

DragonConnect and EXVoice/EXText

In this workflow, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical users will be able to send a full dictated report (audio and text recognized by Dragon NaturallySpeaking) to the EXText transcription system using a voice command or microphone control. The draft report will then be routed to the appropriate transcriptionist for editing and correction within the EXText platform. The transcribed text can then be electronically signed in EXText and uploaded via HL7 to the host application, or it can be uploaded in a preliminary state to be signed electronically with the host application.

"We are committed to helping our customers get the most from the combined power of our market leading Dragon and Dictaphone offerings," said Peter Durlach, senior vice president, marketing and product strategy, Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions, Nuance nu·ance  
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1. A subtle or slight degree of difference, as in meaning, feeling, or tone; a gradation.

2. Expression or appreciation of subtle shades of meaning, feeling, or tone:
. "We have many customers that selected Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical and Dictaphone Enterprise Express separately as best of breed solutions for different needs; these customers will now be able to support a more unified enterprise workflow when appropriate to support their clinical information and electronic medical record deployment objectives."

DragonConnect will be available in the third Quarter of 2007 for use with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical, Dictaphone EXVoice versions 6.5 or 7.0 and Dictaphone EXText versions 6.4 and 7.0. For more information, please call (800) 350-4836 or visit Nuance.com/Dictaphone.

Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions, a division of Nuance, is located in HIMSS booth #4120.

Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions Division

Nuance's Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions Division provides comprehensive dictation and transcription solutions and services that improve the way patient data is captured, processed and used changing the way people process and work with medical information. Through the integration of speech recognition and natural language processing Natural language processing

Computer analysis and generation of natural language text. The goal is to enable natural languages, such as English, French, or Japanese, to serve either as the medium through which users interact with computer systems such as
 within existing health information management workflow, Nuance's Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions offerings help healthcare organizations save money and improve patient care by improving the turn around time, accuracy and usability How easy something is to use. Both software and Web sites can be tested for usability. Considering how difficult applications are to use and Web sites are to navigate, one would wish that more designers took this seriously. See user interface and usability lab.  of their medical documentation. For more information, please visit Nuance.com/Dictaphone.

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Nuance (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a 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 (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. . For more information, please visit Nuance.com.

Nuance, the Nuance logo, Dictaphone, DragonConnect, Dragon, NaturallySpeaking, Enterprise Express, EXVoice, and EXText are registered trademarks or trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  and/or other countries. All other company names or product names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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