[February 25, 2011] Nuance Launches Medical Speech Recognition Healthcare Development Platform for the Cloud Tweet Feb 25, 2011 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Nuance Communications announced that its medical speech recognition capabilities and latest advancements in Clinical Language Understanding (CLU) technology will be available through the Nuance Healthcare Development Platform. With this new cloud-based platform, third-party developers, serving global markets, can incorporate Nuance Healthcare technologies as part of a variety of healthcare applications, providing users with new capabilities for speech-driven clinical documentation, voice navigation and automatic clinical fact extraction. The Nuance Healthcare Development Platform supports multiple devices and operating systems. By providing all of the CPU intensive speech and language processing in the cloud, this new platform enables Healthcare ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) and internal development teams at provider and payer organizations to embed Nuance's SpeechAnywhere capabilities and CLU functionality as part of browser-based applications, mobile applications and thin-client desktop solutions. The environment of this new platform as a service expands the delivery of Nuance's speech and CLU technologies to enable healthcare organizations, physicians, interdisciplinary care teams and patients to achieve better patient documentation, better process and better care. "Dictation has proven to be among the most preferred, friendly and effective ways to document clinical information," said Janet Dillione, executive VP and general manager, Nuance Healthcare. "By expanding access to Nuance's speech recognition and Clinical Language Understanding capabilities, the Nuance Healthcare Development Platform is enabling application developers to unleash an entire new ecosystem of healthcare applications that will help clinicians and patients create and use high quality clinical documentation better and smarter than ever before." The Nuance Healthcare Development Platform allows developers to build clinical solutions including ones that: - Bring Cloud-based Speech Recognition to Smartphones, Tablets, PCs and Browser-based Applications - Enable physicians, nurses and other caregivers to dictate patient notes in real-time into clinical applications, such as electronic health records (EHR), running on an array of devices including the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. - Convert Narrative Clinical Documentation to Structured Data within an EHR - CLU will automatically extract key, structured clinical data from clinicians' dictated notes: patient complaints and allergies, physician-assessed diagnoses, medication and procedural treatments, and health-related habits. - Automate Information Retrieval at the Point-of-Care - While at a patient's bedside, in their office or at home, clinicians can simply dictate a search query to access desired information. Whether the clinician is looking for updated patient test results or clinical information from an EHR, clinical data repository or other source of medical content, it can be accessed via a mobile device. - Collect Patient Information - Deploy speech capabilities on PCs, patient Kiosks and mobile devices to enable patients to speak their key medical information, including history of present illness, current medications and allergies. More Information: http://www.nuance.com/for-healthcare/developers-program/index.htm ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]