Saying its real-time speech recognition software, Dragon Medical, improves the use of electronic health records, Nuance Communications reportedly has announced results from a new study.

 

Often, maintaining EHRs can be tedious for health professionals, adding to their documentation burdens. Working with speech recognition software can reduce the burden to a great extent and it allows the physicians and other health professionals to focus on their primary health-related duties.

 

Among those surveyed, 83 percent said that it improved the quality of their electronic patient notes. While 81 percent of respondents felt that it considerably reduced transcription spending, about 69 percent said it made their EHR faster and easier to use, Nuance (News - Alert) says.

 

EHR vendors complete a Nuance-managed evaluation as part of the Dragon Medical EHR Certification Program. During this time, they work with Nuance engineers to further optimize The Dragon Medical software’s interoperability with their EHR. Physicians and healthcare organizations can confidently make their EHR migration by adding this additional layer of interoperability.

 

“Today, more than 20 percent of all physicians in North America use speech solutions from Nuance,” said Peter Durlach, senior vice president of marketing and product strategy at Nuance Healthcare. “Dragon Medical is increasingly recognized as an essential component to EHR rollout as healthcare provider organizations work to implement, and effectively utilize EHR systems to comply with the federal government’s five-year adoption goal.”

 

When compared to using a non voice-enabled system, Dragon Medical software is proven to make clinicians up to 25 percent more efficient with an HER, according to Nuance.

 

Recently, the company announced the “Personal Paperless Document Manager,” a new desktop application that makes document scanning and conversion with network multifunction printer devices easier, more personalized and more effective than ever before. PPDM, designed for the Ricoh family of MFPs under the Ricoh, Savin, and Lanier brands, empowers users to eliminate paper processes by scanning documents directly to folders on a desktop.