After four years of extensive preparation and debate, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will go into effect on May 25, 2018. U.S. healthcare systems globally expanded or actively marketing and delivering care to EU patients will need to comply. While few U.S. healthcare providers have expanded globally, those that have include prominent organizations such as Johns Hopkins Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Mayo Clinic and UPMC. Other healthcare systems are likely
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Nuance Integrates AI-Powered Virtual Assistant Platform with Epic EHR
Nuance and Epic have teamed up to integrate Nuance’s new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered virtual assistant platform with Epic’s EHR. With Nuance’s new virtual assistant technology, Epic’s EHR further improves caregiver productivity and efficiency across the continuum of care. Today’s announcement comes as new CHIME survey data1 reveals that 70 percent of hospital CIO’s surveyed would consider adopting virtual assistants with AI capabilities in the coming year.Nuance and Epic have worked
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Nuance Study Reveals Rework Is Root Cause of Staff Burnout in Hospitals
Nuance has unveiled new study data in an infographic about the importance of reducing rework. The healthcare system is built on the premise of rework with clinical documentation specialists and coders going back to the care team for specifications and clarity on clinical documentation, causing physicians to relive their day and rework documentation done previously. Rework is a root cause of staff burnout in hospitals and healthcare systems.As physicians and care teams face mounting pressure and
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Nuance & Partners HealthCare Team Up to Accelerate Adoption of AI Apps for Diagnostic Imaging
Nuance today announced the signing of a multi-year strategic agreement with Partners HealthCare. The two organizations will optimize the process for rapid development, validation and utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) for radiologists at the point of care, and Nuance intends to make the new algorithms available through the Nuance AI Marketplace for Diagnostic Imaging.The collaboration will be executed through the recently formed Massachusetts General Hospital ("MGH") and Brigham and
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Nuance Launches Artificial Intelligence Marketplace for Diagnostic Imaging
Today, Nuance introduced a first-of-its-kind, open artificial intelligence (AI) marketplace for diagnostic imaging that will speed the creation and adoption of AI by providing radiologists and data scientists with the ability to define, build, publish and improve imaging algorithms. It will provide radiologists with real-time intelligence needed at the time of care and within their usual workflow.As part of this, Nuance is collaborating with NVIDIA, a company well-known for its deep learning
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Philips, Nuance Integrate to Bring AI Directly into Radiology Reporting
Philips and Nuance Communications, Inc., a provider of intelligent voice and language solutions has announced an integration partnership bringing artificial intelligence-based (AI-based) image interpretation and reporting capabilities to radiologists. The initiative will leverage assets from Philips Illumeo with adaptive intelligence and Nuance PowerScribe 360 to help reduce discrepancies, and improve radiology reporting, accuracy and standardization.Announced at RSNA 2016, Philips Illumeo, an
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Nuance Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Rival M*Modal
Nuance Communications, Inc. has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against rival M*Modal that alleges the company’s products violated six Nuance patents. The patent infringement lawsuits are related to speech recognition, computer-assisted physician documentation and transcription technology specifically applied within the health IT market based on U.S. Patent numbers 9,564,126; 8,117,034; 7,379,946; 6,999,933; 6,766,295; and 6,308,158.“Nuance has invested significant human and financial
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Nuance Unveils AI-Powered Virtual Assistant to Improve the Patient/Physician Experience
Nuance Healthcare unveiled a new AI-powered virtual assistant solution aimed at optimizing the experience healthcare providers have with their EHRs and allowing physicians to spend more time focusing on the patient. This latest offering from Nuance builds upon their award winning platform – which 500,000 clinicians use to communicate more than 300 million patient stories a year – delivering a seamless transition of conversational dialogues to actionable information for doctors. Additionally,
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Magnolia Regional Health Integrates Nuance’s Dragon Medical One with MEDITECH EHR
Magnolia Regional Health Center (MRHC) has implemented Nuance Dragon Medical One, integrated with its MEDITECH EHR, as its clinical speech recognition and computer-assisted physician documentation (CAPD) platform for acute care. This move will provide seamless integration with MEDITECH EHRs and help the system capture the complete patient story.The secure, cloud-based speech recognition solution is hosted on the Microsoft Azure HITRUST CSF certified platform, and is powered by artificial
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Epic, Nuance Partner on Artificial Intelligence to Transform Disabled Veterans Access to Accessibility to Health IT
Epic and Nuance are joining forces to leverage artificial intelligence to revolutionize disabled veterans accessibility to health information technology. The partnership will bring access and job opportunities for disabled persons scheduling medical appointments powered by Nuance’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology and Epic’s EHR system, which include a hands-free virtual assistant.There are nearly 20 million military veterans in the U.S., and 4 million have service-connected disabilities.
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