The Rutland Herald reports that Vermont health care leaders want to have a fully functional Health Information Exchange in seven years. Read more...

Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), has unveiled its Dragon® Medical 10 software, the fastest, most accurate, real-time medical speech recognition software released to date. The new Dragon Medical 10 software recognizes dictation nearly twice as fast as its previous release and yields an accuracy improvement of more than 20 percent over the previous release. Dragon Medical 10 offers new medical vocabularies, improved integration with electronic medical record (EMR) systems, enhanced regional accent support, and customizable commands, like Voice Shortcuts and DragonTemplates. Read more...

According to Healthcare IT News, Microsoft and Royal Phillips Electronics will work together to incorporate speech recognition into Microsoft‘s Amalga Suite Read more...

“Less than four months after our launch, I am pleased to announce that OneOncology has secured more than $1 billion in drug purchasing commitments from community oncologists,” said Steven Kirchof, chief executive officer of OneOncology.  “This number will continue to grow as more practices learn about the value of transparency, visibility and unity in drug purchasing.”

OneOncology is an electronic trading hub that brings together oncology practices and pharmaceutical drug distributors in an efficient and impartial electronic marketplace. The trading hub uses real time reverse auction technology specifically designed for community oncology.  The platform enables oncologists to build healthier practices and reduce administrative burdens through improved drug procurement and sourcing. Similar electronic trading hubs in industries such as chemicals and fuels have seen average price decreases between 3 and 35 percent. 

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