Dragon Medical 10 is a part of the world’s best-selling speech recognition software family, Dragon NaturallySpeaking®, and is one of many offerings in Nuance’s healthcare portfolio of proven, speech-enabled clinical documentation and communication solutions.

Dragon Medical is used by more than 70,000 caregivers today in hospitals and physician practices across private, public and government settings. Dragon Medical 10 lets physicians create medical documents and emails, search the Web, control their PC and EMR entirely by voice, saving time and boosting productivity as compared to typing and mouse navigation alone. By enabling clinicians to rapidly and completely document patient encounters via their voice, Dragon Medical reduces transcription costs, improves clinician productivity, enhances patient care and increases insurer reimbursement.

More on Dragon Medical 10:
• Real-time Speech Recognition Makes EMRs Use Faster and Easier – Dragon Medical 10 is the only Dragon NaturallySpeaking edition that enables clinicians to dictate directly into an EMR system, and rapidly edit and sign medical reports, speeding data input, reducing clicking and typing and, in turn, accelerating EMR utilization. Dragon Medical is available for integration with any Windows®- or Citrix®-based EMR system, including, but not limited to, those from Allscripts™, Epic, Misys®, GE® Healthcare, NextGen®, Siemens, eClinicalWorks®, Meditech, McKesson®, Cerner and Eclipsys®.

• Real-time, Clinical Documentation Reduces Operating Costs – By using Dragon Medical’s highly-accurate, real-time speech recognition capabilities, clinicians are able to provide detailed clinical notes than typing or EMR point-and-click templates alone, without the costs or delays associated with manual transcription.

• More Detailed Documentation Drives Better Patient Care – According to physicians, the narrative is the most important part of a patient note. A medical record that combines point-and-click EMR templates with dictated physician narrative promotes ongoing higher quality care via complete and patient specific information that clearly articulates the unique story of every patient encounter. By using Dragon Medical, critical patient documentation is available immediately for other care providers to access electronically.

• Less Typing Makes Clinicians Up to 25 Percent More Efficient – Eliminating reliance on typing allows clinicians to spend more time practicing medicine and up to 25 percent less time documenting care, when compared to using a non voice-enabled EMR. With Dragon Medical 10’s new macro capability, clinicians can create customized voice shortcuts for common phrases or larger blocks of text that can include embedded fields. Abbreviated voice commands such as “patient history,” speeds up documentation and associated desktop, EMR or Web search and navigation tasks.

• More Complete Documentation Helps Increase and Speed Reimbursement – By dictating the narrative component of the patient visit versus just typing or relying on point-and-click EMR templates, Dragon Medical enables physicians to document the encounter in a more complete manner resulting in higher and more appropriate reimbursement. In addition, by completing clinical documentation in real-time, healthcare providers can improve their entire reimbursement cycle.

• Clinical Dictation Requires Robust and Highly-Tuned Medical Speech Recognition Vocabularies – Dragon Medical 10 supports more than 75 medical disciplines, from family medicine and internal medicine to orthopedics and cardiology with proprietary medical speech recognition vocabularies. With these specialized vocabularies, Dragon Medical has proven to be up to 38 percent more accurate than non-medical speech recognition software in clinical settings.

• Accent Recognition Knows What You’re Saying, No Matter Where You’re From – As 30 percent of U.S. physicians are born foreign, Dragon Medical 10 now calibrates to regional accents through an initial voice screening process. The software automatically adapts to a variety of U.S., Southeast Asian, Indian and Hispanic accents.

• Nearly Twice as Fast as Previous Versions – With Dragon Medical 10, clinicians will see their dictated text appear almost instantaneously, noticing a dramatic reduction in the time it takes for the software to recognize what is being dictated, significantly improving user experience.

• Rapid Deployment with No Custom IT Integration Required – As a result of Dragon Medical’s ability to enable direct dictation into EMRs and other clinical information systems, healthcare provider organizations can rapidly deploy the software without any customized IT integration or interface development efforts. With the proper provider training and associated deployment services, clinicians can be up and running within a matter of days.

• Supports HIPAA Regulations – Dragon Medical 10 supports patient confidentiality and helps healthcare provider organizations comply with HIPAA regulations.

Dragon Medical is one of many offerings in Nuance’s healthcare portfolio of proven, speech-enabled clinical documentation and communication solutions including the eScription on-demand platform for computer aided medical transcription, the Dictaphone Enterprise Express on-premise platform for integrated transcription workflow and speech recognition, and radiology solutions including PowerScribe®, RadWhere™, RadPort™, RadCube™, and Veriphy™ critical test results management. All of these solutions enable healthcare provider organizations to reduce operating costs, increase reimbursement, and enhance patient care and safety. No matter the specific requirements of a healthcare provider organization, Nuance has solutions to meet its needs. For more information on all of Nuance’s Healthcare solutions please visit: http://www.nuance.com/dictaphone/

Bob Wise, President, Nuance Healthcare Division – “With healthcare provider organizations under increasing pressure to reduce operating costs, enhance patient care and maximize reimbursement, speech-driven clinical documentation solutions such as Dragon Medical are a proven strategy to transform the medical record creation process, reducing costs, and reallocating physician time away from reporting and toward patient care. As these pressures will only increase across the healthcare industry, we expect the adoption rate of speech-enabled clinical documentation solutions to accelerate as they continue to show demonstrable value in providing more detailed clinical notes at lower costs, while simultaneously improving the clinician experience.”

Availability:
Dragon Medical 10 is available in Medical Small Practice, Medical and Medical Enterprise versions (see more information below) through Nuance’s global network of certified reseller partners and professional sales organizations. Within the broader Dragon 10 family of solutions (Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Standard, Preferred and Professional), Dragon Medical is best suited for use in a clinical setting due to its superior accuracy, support for direct dictation into EMRs, and other powerful medical version-only capabilities.
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