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LERNOUT & HAUSPIE SHOWCASES
SPEECH AND LANGUAGE SOLUTIONS FOR
HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY AT HIMSS
New Products and Partnerships Part of Strategy to
Make Speech Technology Ubiquitous in Healthcare
Atlanta, GA – Feb. 22, 1999 – Expanding upon its strategy to
make speech and language technology the standard interface
for today's healthcare applications, Lernout & Hauspie (NASDAQ:
LHSPF) (EASDAQ: LHSP) (L&H™) today announced products,
services and partners at the Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and
Exposition here in Atlanta, GA, Feb. 21-25, 1999. Combined, the
announcements enhance the power of speech technology in
medicine and give users, at every level, solutions needed to
streamline healthcare delivery while improving patient care.
The speech and language technology products and services
that L&H is showcasing at Booth #916 can be customized to fit
a variety of customer requirements and needs. These
applications, designed to strengthen the electronic patient
record system, include:
L&H Clinical Reporter™ for Primary Care, a strategic
speech-enabled medical document management system;
L&H Wav Transcriber, a mobile speech processing system
designed to increase transcription throughput;
L&H's Level Assist™ , a tool that grades medical
documentation against current Health Care Finance
Administration (HCFA) guidelines;
L&H Voice Xpress™ for Medicine, a PC-based continuous
speech recognition product for creating, formatting and
editing medical documents by voice;
MedQuist's Clinical Voice Station, a fully integrated
medical documentation solution that combines L&H's
speech-enabled medical knowledge bases for Emergency
Medicine reporting, L&H's Level Assist™ , and MedQuist's
transcription system.
"We've seen the interest in speech and language technologies
increase substantially in the past year. L&H's presence at HIMSS
demonstrates how we are responding to that demand by
offering tailored speech solutions that add value to existing
healthcare information systems," said Chris Force, Vice President
of L&H's Industry Solutions Group. "Healthcare institutions and
providers are beginning to see how these products can
immediately improve patient care, workflow and productivity,
information retrieval and sharing, compliance with increasingly
stringent reporting guidelines and the bottom line."
L&H, a worldwide market leader in speech and linguistic
technology, products and services, also cited several recent
partnerships with healthcare technology vendors aimed at
delivering best of breed speech-enabled applications to the
market. These partners include: CVDS, Inc., Interpra,
Intelliworxx, and Nine Rivers Technology.
L&H Solutions Meet Broad Range of Healthcare
Environments & Needs
At the HIMSS Conference, L&H demonstrated the following
healthcare applications:
L&H Clinical Reporter™ for Primary Care, a strategic
healthcare enterprise solution that enables primary care
clinicians to easily dictate, manage, view and search a
patient's health history in the office or on a secure
medical intranet. The product combines advanced speech
and Internet technology, providing a strategic healthcare
information solution that is scalable from the point of care
for the physician to the communication requirements of a
healthcare enterprise.
L&H Wav Transcriber service, a telephony and mobile
dictation solution that utilizes advanced speech
recognition technology to reduce transcription costs and
decrease report turnaround time. Users can access the
L&H Wav Transcriber service by simply dictating into a
standard telephone, mobile handheld recording device, or
PC-based Wav-file recording microphone. Dictation
received over the telephone or Internet via an uploaded
Wav-file is captured and processed at a call center by
advanced speech recognition software tailored to various
medical specialties. A sophisticated workflow system
assigns the resulting text to a human transcriptionists for
editing based upon the specialty, work load and priority of
each project. Applying speech recognition technology to
medical transcription substantially increases document
throughput, service availability and savings. Because it is
a transparent solution, the L&H Wav Transcriber
seamlessly integrates into a physician's current workflow
and offers a low risk service-based solution for improving
transcription of medical dictation. The service
automatically adapts to the users voice and increases in
accuracy with ongoing use.
L&H Level Assist™ , which electronically analyzes Primary
Care and Emergency Medicine charts against current
HealthCare Finance Administration (HCFA) guidelines. L&H
Level Assist then grades documents according to their
level of compliance in order to help practitioners improve
their documentation level over time. L&H Level Assist is
designed to assist the physician by grading medical
documentation in order to maximize reimbursements.
Lanier Professional Services, Inc., which provides a variety
of outsourcing services, is piloting L&H Level Assist at a
medical transcription customer site.
L&H Voice Xpress™ for Medicine is the industry's broadest
range of continuous speech recognition products for
specialized medical practices. The products allow doctors
and other healthcare professionals to quickly and easily
create, format and edit documents by voice on a PC and
are available for General Medicine, or for the following
specialties: Cardiology, Emergency Medicine, Mental
Health, Pathology, Primary Care, Radiology, Internal
Medicine, Orthopedics, Neonatology/Pediatrics, General
Surgery and Oncology.
For pricing, system requirements and availability of L&H's
healthcare applications, please call 888-537-6688 or visit L&H's
Web site at lhs.com.
About L&H
Lernout & Hauspie (L&H) is a global leader in advanced speech
and language solutions for vertical markets, computers,
automobiles, telecommunications, embedded products, consumer
goods and the Internet. The company is making the speech user
interface (SUI) the keystone of simple, convenient interaction
between humans and technology, and is using advanced
translation technology to break down language barriers. L&H's
products and services originate in four basic areas: automatic
speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), digital speech
and music compression (SMC) and text-to-text (translation).
For more information, please visit Lernout & Hauspie on the
World Wide Web at www.lhs.com.
This Press Release contains forward-looking information,
including but not limited to statements involving L&H's view of
the evolution of speech and language technology in the
healthcare industry, that L&H's products will work according to
specifications and that such products will be successful in the
market, and that its partnerships will be successful. Factors
which could cause material differences to these forward looking
statements include known and unknown risks, including without
limitation: the uncertainty of new product development,
including the risk that newly introduced products may contain
undetected errors or defects or otherwise not perform as
anticipated, the early stage of development of the speech and
language technology markets, uncertainty of market growth,
rapid technological change and intense competition, as well as
other risks set forth in L&H's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. L&H cautions readers not to place undue
reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak
only as of the date made. L&H expressly disclaims any obligation
or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to
any such statements to reflect any change in the L&H's
expectations or any change in events, conditions or
circumstance on which any such statement is based.
All product names and trademarks mentioned herein are
trademarks of L&H or their respective owners.
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Media Contacts:
Audrey Pobre, Lernout & Hauspie, (781) 203-5341,
apobre@lhs.com
Jim Williams, Lernout & Hauspie, (781) 203-5103,
jwilliams@lhs.com
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