• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to secondary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

  • Opinion
  • Health IT
    • Behavioral Health
    • Care Coordination
    • EMR/EHR
    • Interoperability
    • Patient Engagement
    • Population Health Management
    • Revenue Cycle Management
    • Social Determinants of Health
  • Digital Health
    • AI
    • Blockchain
    • Precision Medicine
    • Telehealth
    • Wearables
  • Startups
  • M&A
  • Value-based Care
    • Accountable Care (ACOs)
    • Medicare Advantage
  • Life Sciences
  • Research

Physicians Using Nuance Have Captured Over 100M Patient Stories

by HITC Staff 11/11/2015 Leave a Comment

  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Email
  • Print

Nuance's Clintegrity CDI

Nuance Communications, Inc. has announced physicians have documented more than 100 million patient stories annually physicians using Nuance cloud-based clinical voice recognition. This milestone comes on the heels of dramatic growth in healthcare organizations using web and mobile apps with embedded Nuance Dragon Medical cloud-based solutions, which have increased up to 30% month-over-month since the beginning of the year. Nuance anticipates this pace of adoption to continue based on market feedback indicating 94% of healthcare organizations are considering or strongly interested in cloud-hosted clinical speech recognition, with 89% citing portability as the top benefit.

Physicians Under Pressure to Document Complete Patient Stories

Physicians are under increasing pressure to document complete patient stories in EHR while treating patients on different floors, and in multiple facilities that often use different clinical systems and tools. By enabling them to capture patient stories quickly and accurately on the spot—via mobile device, web, desktop, or virtualized environment—Dragon Medical cloud-based speech solutionsprovide the security, flexibility, and personalization to support today’s dynamic clinical workflows.

“Physicians are more mobile than ever, both inside and outside the hospital. At the same time, there is an increased need for patient stories to become immediately available in the patient’s record. IntegratingNuance Dragon Medical Direct with our Cerner physician documentation tool has enabled us to meet both of these needs,” says Dr. Ehab Hanna, chief medical information officer of Universal Health Services (UHS), Inc., which has so far deployed the solution in 16 facilities nationwide. “Our goal was to transition at least 30% of patient stories to Nuance’s cloud-based technology in conjunction with Cerner’s EHR. Within just a few weeks, we were pleasantly surprised to see voluntary adoption rates of 60% to 90% across our hospitals. You don’t reach numbers like that unless you have a good tool.”

Dr. Hanna attributes the significant adoption rates to the accuracy of Nuance’s speech recognition and portability of voice profiles, which allow physicians to have a consistent user experience as they dictate clinical documentation in ways that fit their clinical workflows. “It understands me from the first minute I begin talking,” he adds, noting that physicians loved that no training was needed. The ease of use and convenience of Dragon Medical were also big contributors to rapid physician adoption, as were the strong existing relationships between the UHS medical staff and IT staff during the rollout.

In addition to more than 3,000 healthcare organizations that rely on cloud technology from Nuance, the number of those accessing the platform through speech-enabled partner applications—such as mobile EHR apps from Cerner, Epic, and eClinicalWorks—has more than tripled in the past year.

Launched in 2011, Nuance’s industry-leading medical speech recognition became available through the cloud, issuing in a new way for clinical professionals to interact with clinical documentation systems and apps via voice navigation, dramatically enhancing their efficiency and making capturing patient stories fast, flexible,and accurate.

  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Email
  • Print

Tagged With: Nuance, nuance healthcare

Tap Native

Get in-depth healthcare technology analysis and commentary delivered straight to your email weekly

Reader Interactions

Primary Sidebar

Subscribe to HIT Consultant

Latest insightful articles delivered straight to your inbox weekly.

Submit a Tip or Pitch

Featured Insights

2025 EMR Software Pricing Guide

2025 EMR Software Pricing Guide

Featured Interview

Virta Health CEO: GLP-1s Didn’t Kill Weight Watchers, Its Broken Model Did

Most-Read

Samsung Acquires Xealth to Accelerate Connected Care Vision

Samsung Acquires Xealth to Accelerate Connected Care Vision

AI Dominates Digital Health Investment in First Half of 2025

Rock Health Report: AI Dominates Digital Health Investment in First Half of 2025

Moving Beyond EHRs: What Lies Ahead for Healthcare Digitization?

AI Agents vs. Chatbots: Understanding Agentic AI’s Role in Healthcare

AI Breakthrough Reveals 2025 AI Breakthrough Award Winners

AI Breakthrough Reveals 2025 AI Breakthrough Award Winners

Healthcare's Big Blind Spot: The Measurement Crisis in Inpatient Psychiatry

Healthcare’s Big Blind Spot: The Measurement Crisis in Inpatient Psychiatry

Lessons Learned from The Change Healthcare Cyberattack, One Year Later

Lessons Learned from The Change Healthcare Cyberattack, One Year Later

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Launches "CloseKnit" Virtual-First Primary Care Option

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Launches “CloseKnit” Virtual-First Primary Care Option

Omada Health Launches "Nutritional Intelligence" with AI Agent OmadaSpark

Omada Health Soars in NASDAQ Debut, Signaling Digital Health IPO Rebound

Medtronic to Separate Diabetes Business into New Standalone Company

Medtronic to Separate Diabetes Business into New Standalone Company

White House, IBM Partner to Fight COVID-19 Using Supercomputers

HHS Sets Pricing Targets for Trump’s EO on Most-Favored-Nation Drug Pricing

Secondary Sidebar

Footer

Company

  • About Us
  • Advertise with Us
  • Reprints and Permissions
  • Submit An Op-Ed
  • Contact
  • Subscribe

Editorial Coverage

  • Opinion
  • Health IT
    • Care Coordination
    • EMR/EHR
    • Interoperability
    • Population Health Management
    • Revenue Cycle Management
  • Digital Health
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Blockchain Tech
    • Precision Medicine
    • Telehealth
    • Wearables
  • Startups
  • Value-Based Care
    • Accountable Care
    • Medicare Advantage

Connect

Subscribe to HIT Consultant Media

Latest insightful articles delivered straight to your inbox weekly

Copyright © 2025. HIT Consultant Media. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy |