Nuance champions hospital-wide digital voice infrastructure at Arab Health 2012

Release of new case study from Sheikh Khalifa Medical Center underlines benefits of voice recognition for healthcare

DUBAI, UAE, 23 January 2011 -- Nuance Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAN) will be using Arab Health, the largest healthcare exhibition and congress in the Middle East, as a platform to voice the benefits of hospital-wide voice recognition in hospitals. Visitors at the event will have a chance to experience the company's latest voice recognition technology and grab a fresh print-out of the company's latest case study about voice recognition implementation at the Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC) in Abu Dhabi. Nuance will be on the stand (1A50, Hall 1) of its regional partner, Abu-Dhabi-based Emerging Technologies.

"SKMC was the first in the region to implement a hospital-wide electronic voice infrastructure for all of its 500 doctors," says Lincoln Payne, Nuance Healthcare Middle East Sales Director. "In the first month of working with voice recognition, the volume of radiology reports transcribed dropped from an average of 10,000 to 150. The turnaround times for radiology reports went from 3 days to just a few hours."

Optimizing investment in EMR with voice recognition

With healthcare modernization a top priority right now, Arab Health visitors can learn about both the ease of deploying voice recognition as well as the considerable benefits to hospitals in terms of productivity and improved healthcare workflow.

"The good news is that voice recognition doesn't need a complex infrastructure," says Payne. "For the Dragon Medical software we just need a network, reasonably good PCs and microphones."

Voice recognition can help to optimize investment in the Electronic Medical Record (EMR), enabling doctors to edit and sign off on the fly while reducing the chances of error and accelerating report turnaround time. Digital voice recognition also reduces the workload, allowing medical typists and secretaries to take on other tasks.

In the Middle East, Nuance works with partner Emerging Technologies to provide a voice recognition solution for a multi-lingual, multi-cultural community of doctors. The software is capable of learning and adapting to its users and is able to recognize several different accents.

The company's product portfolio includes the desktop solution Dragon Medical and the radiology reporting workflow Powerscribe 360. Dragon Medical supports close to 80 specialties and subspecialties, allowing an entire hospital to be voice-enabled, but can also be used for simpler tasks such as composing e-mails or searching the web.

At Arab Health, Nuance will be on the Emerging Technologies booth (1A50, Hall 1).

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