KLAS Recognizes Six Distinct Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions' Products Within 2007 Year-End Top 20 Best in KLAS Report
Wednesday December 19, 8:00 am ET
Nuance Achieves Top Rankings With Speech-Driven Clinical Documentation Solutions For Radiology and For Use With Electronic Medical Record Systems
BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN - News), a leading supplier of speech solutions, today announced that several of its Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions products have been recognized by KLAS Enterprises, LLC, a research and consulting organization specializing in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare information technology (HIT) vendors, within the 2007 Year-End Top 20 Best in KLAS Report. Six Dictaphone® solutions were included in the KLAS report including two #1 rankings:
* Nuance’s PowerScribe® and RadWhere™ for Radiology applications are two out of the top three ranked solutions in the General Market Software category for front-end speech recognition
* Nuance’s Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® Medical, used by more than 50,000 clinicians in the US today to document care directly into an EMR, was ranked #1 within the Physician Practice Software category for front-end speech recognition
The KLAS year-end industry report is created from end-user feedback from more than 7,000 healthcare organizations that employ various vendor solutions across the industry. In addition to its two #1 rankings in front-end speech recognition, Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions is proud to have achieved status within the top three solutions ranked for the following additional categories:
* Nuance’s EXSpeech® and EXText™ are listed as leading transcription and back-end speech recognition solutions
* Nuance’s EXVoice™ is listed as a leading dictation solution
“By remaining steadfast on Nuance’s commitment to exceptional quality, customer service and innovative technology to meet both customer and broader industry demands, the Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions products continue to be recognized across the healthcare industry,” said Peter Durlach, senior vice president, healthcare marketing and product strategy for Nuance. “KLAS’ repeated leadership rankings of our product family, including PowerScribe for Radiology®, Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® Medical, EXSpeech®, EXText™, EXVoice™ and the newly acquired RadWhere™ application validates our strategy to simultaneously grow and enhance the Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions portfolio through organic product development and through valuable market partnerships, as shown with our recent acquisitions of Commissure and Vocada.”
The 2007 Year-End Top 20 Best in KLAS Report is a summary of healthcare industry IT product performance collected over a 13 month period ending November 15, 2007. If you have questions or if you would like to purchase a copy, visit the KLAS website at www.healthcomputing.com. For more information on any of the top ranked products mentioned in this release visit nuance.com.
Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions Division
Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions is a division of Nuance Communications, a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions. Dictaphone provides the most comprehensive family of speech-driven clinical documentation and communications solutions. Dictaphone® solutions orchestrate and optimize clinical workflow, reduce transcription expense, raise standards of care via more thorough documentation, deliver results rapidly to meet patient safety guidelines, and heighten clinician satisfaction by making EMR systems easy to use. Dictaphone’s solutions accelerate the adoption of clinical information systems, so provider organizations can maximize the return from their IT investments. For more information, please visit nuance.com.
Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance (NASDAQ: NUAN - News) is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications and professional services. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.
About KLAS Enterprises
KLAS, founded in 1996, is the only research and consulting firm that specializes in providing the healthcare information technology (HIT) industry with unbiased, factual information on HIT vendor performance. KLAS, teamed with thousands of healthcare executives, CIOs, directors, managers and clinicians, has created a dynamic database of information on the performance of HIT vendors. The KLAS database represents the opinions of healthcare executives, managers and clinicians from more than 4,500 hospitals and 2,500 clinics on more than 500 different products. The information contained within the database is current, as it is refreshed daily with new performance evaluations and interviews. KLAS utilizes a two-step process to collect candid performance data so KLAS clients are able to clearly see how a vendor or product is truly performing. For further information, contact KLAS Enterprises, LLC toll free at 866-268-9438 or visit the Web at healthcomputing.com. |
