Nuance today announced it has joined athenahealth’s “More Disruption Please” program, an initiative driving disruption in healthcare and transforming the way physicians provide patient care. As part of this partnership, Nuance’s Dragon Medical 360 solution will be part of athenahealth’s Marketplace offerings, providing organizations with solutions from leading innovative companies to drive productivity and performance.
More than 30% of patients spend 10 minutes or less with their physician, and this collaboration will provide physicians the ability to document with speech recognition, resulting in accurate and compliant documentation and an improved workflow, allowing them to focus on providing quality patient care.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest analysis published November 2014, ambulatory healthcare services rose nearly 24 percent over a five-year period, and physicians’ offices accounted for nearly half of all ambulatory care services. In 2014 alone, use of Dragon Medical Clinic 360 | Transcription, Nuance’s solution for the ambulatory clinic market, doubled in overall volume as a tool used for capturing clinical documentation. Today, more than half of U.S. clinicians use Nuance Dragon Medical 360 solutions to document care faster using technology that enables them to tell the whole patient story while getting the structured data the industry needs.
Nuance clinical documentation solutions to be featured in the athenahealth Marketplace include:
– Dragon–Medical 360 Direct, (available now) a cloud-based clinical speech recognition service with voice profiles that are easily accessed across multiple devices and infrastructures and adapt to clinician’s terms, phrases, and preferences for optimum accuracy and ease of use.
– Dragon MedicalClinic 360 Transcription, (coming soon) a modernized method of traditional documentation that optimizes workflow by allowing clinicians to dictate, review, edit and electronically sign notes using their mobile devices.
“We are excited to partner with Nuance, an industry-leading dictation solution with the goal of saving time and increasing efficiencies for our providers,” said Kyle Armbrester, chief product officer at athenahealth. “The integrated Nuance solution aims to address the many pain points of EMR documentation by seamlessly integrating speech recognition into the workflow – in real-time and on any device.”
athenahealth’s “More Disruption Please” is a partnership program aimed at leveraging the scalability of the cloud to advance innovation in healthcare for the overall improvement in the way patient care is coordinated and delivered.
