(Biotech Week)
2005 DEC 14 - (NewsRx.com) -- Nuance Communications, Inc. (SSFT) announced that Nightingale has selected Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical to enable speech recognition within its Nightingale electronic medical records (EMR) solutions.

The new integration will enable Nightingale's customers to dictate directly into the myNightingale EMR system, lowering administrative costs, errors, and turnaround time typically associated with manually transcribing critical medical records.

Canadian healthcare professionals can use the power of their voice within the myNightingale EMR to quickly create accurate patient notes, fax or email referral letters, and perform other traditionally transcription-dependent tasks. The integration of Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical with Nightingale's EMR equips healthcare providers with the most efficient, accurate documentation solution available - enabling them to spend less time on administrative tasks and more time on direct patient care.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical 8 has built-in understanding for more than 300,000 words, and includes 14 specialty vocabularies, including general medicine, pathology, radiology, cardiology and surgery disciplines. Healthcare organizations can also easily add their own words to the solution to create fully customized vocabularies. Care providers can take advantage of voice-activated shortcuts, allowing a single word or phrase to automatically populate fields within the Nightingale solution.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking provides healthcare technology suppliers and integrators with the ability to quickly and easily speech-enable commercial and in-house PC- and Web-based EMR applications, delivering unrivaled speed and accuracy. Dragon NaturallySpeaking can save healthcare organizations thousands of dollars per doctor each year in reduced or eliminated manual transcription costs. Tens of thousands of physicians worldwide use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to achieve substantial time and money savings, enabling them to focus on patient care.

Nightingale is a provider of ASP-based solutions to Canadian healthcare providers.

Nuance Communications, Inc. (SSFT), formerly ScanSoft, Inc., is a provider of speech and imaging solutions.

This article was prepared by Biotech Week editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2005, Biotech Week via NewsRx.com.