Nuance launches eScription version 9 for for computer aided medical transcription

Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading supplier of speech solutions, today announced the availability of version 9 of its eScription on-demand platform for computer aided medical transcription (CAMT), a solution used by healthcare organizations to increase productivity and save costs associated with medical transcription (MT). The new version, which has been successfully deployed at multiple eScription customer sites since spring 2009, introduces enhancements to all five components of the eScription platform, including dictation, background speech recognition, editing and transcription, document distribution and electronic signature. Among its many new features, version 9 offers significant advancements in document quality review and administrator efficiency, benefiting organizations with in-house MT staff and fully outsourced models.

As part of its overall mission to help healthcare organizations continually improve their clinical documentation processes, Nuance worked closely with its customers to develop and execute on the more than 30 new features included in eScription version 9. A proven solution for enterprise-wide clinical documentation creation, Nuance’s eScription background speech recognition platform is processing more than 1.82 billion lines of transcription per year, an increase of more than 35 percent since one year ago, and is helping many healthcare organizations save millions of dollars over traditional transcription costs.

“We’ve been using the eScription platform for the past three years. As a multi-site healthcare organization, the eScription platform allows our medical transcriptionists – both in-house and outsourced to Focus Infomatics – to quickly create high-quality clinical documents that are easily accessible for review and distribution,” said Steve Griffin, assistant director, HIMS transcription, FirstHealth of the Carolinas. ”For our team, the most compelling feature that eScription version 9 offers is its enhanced administrative controls and quality assurance. Our team loves the standardized consistency of the drafts, loves the editing and access to documents, and beyond just being happy, our transcriptionists have, in some cases exceeded 100 percent productivity gains.”

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