Nuance Communications (Burlington, MA), makers of the popular Dragon Naturally Speaking voice recognition software, have unveiled new smart phone apps specifically developed for clinical professionals. The Dragon Medical Mobile package provides transcription, medical voice search, and voice recording capabilities. There’s also a software development kit (SDK) available to allow other firms to integrate Dragon Medical voice recognition ability into their own applications.
By utilizing Nuance’s advanced, cloud-based Dragon Medical speech recognition technology, clinicians can dictate and capture information via a smartphone in real-time without having to return to the desktop or rely on the keyboard or touch screen. With Dragon Medical Mobile Dictation, all of the speech recognition is performed in the cloud using advanced real-time streaming capabilities.
Utilizing the same cloud-based speech recognition technology as the Dragon Medical Mobile Dictation app, the Search app will allow clinicians to simply speak a request to conduct fast and easy searches on various medical websites. A unique display carousel will show search results simultaneously from popular websites, including MedScape, MedLine, Epocrates and Google.
Once recorded, the clinicians’ voice file is forwarded through Nuance’s background speech recognition technology and onto transcription where a high quality draft document is created and then is sent back to the clinician for review and sign-off. The Dragon Medical Recorder app is designed for healthcare organizations that leverage either of Nuance’s enterprise-wide speech-enabled dictation and transcription solutions, eScription or the Dictaphone Enterprise Speech System.
Press release: Nuance Extends Power and Experience of Mobile, Voice-Enabled Documentation and Search to the Healthcare Industry; Unveils Dragon Medical Mobile Apps for Smartphones …
Product page: Dragon Medical Mobile Technologies for Smartphones …