Nuance Communications, Inc. , announced a specialized version of Dragon Medical 360 | Network Edition .

With the final goal to enable physicians using Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system to optimize their productivity and documentation quality Nuance Communications, Inc. , announced a specialized version of Dragon Medical 360 | Network Edition.

Connectikpeople has observed that, this means that, as from now, physicians can spend more time with patients, accelerates

enterprise-wide physician adoption and facilitates more complete documentation, which is the foundation for high-quality patient care and appropriate reimbursement.

This solution aims to pair the industry’s fastest, most accurate medical speech recognition technology from Nuance with more than 1,000 customized EHR commands to enhance physician productivity.

According to Nuance Communications, healthcare providers also benefit from the following established Dragon Medical customizations:

• Designed for virtualized environments : Optimizes physician use of Dragon Medical with virtualized EHRs without time-intensive, costly technical integration or configuration;
• Tailored, voice-enabled templates and content :Helps streamline and ensure thorough clinical documentation by offering pre-developed templates and content for the creation of standard notes; and
• Proven, physician-led services: Improves physician productivity and satisfaction with both technologies from day one of deployment by offering skilled clinician consultants with deep knowledge of EHRs and Dragon Medical.

 “With numerous changes taking place in healthcare today, it’s critical that physicians have tools and services that let them focus on the patient, not the technology.” “Integrating Dragon Medical and customized commands and services with the roll out of our electronic health record helped us get our physicians onboard quickly, improved their overall satisfaction, reduced transcription costs and allowed us to establish a system that will benefit our patients.”

Connectikpeople may recall that, Nuance has worked with Epic’s development team to help providers achieve Meaningful Use by simplifying the capture and extraction of structured data from the physician narrative through the integration of Clinical Language Understanding.