Dragon speech recognition gets an enterprise boost

Mary Stevens | | Health Exec | EMR/EHR
Nuance Communications has unveiled Dragon Medical Enterprise Network Edition, a speech recognition platform designed for large physician practices and hospitals seeking meaningful use of EHR systems.

Dragon Medical Enterprise Network Edition, designed for hospitals and physician practices with 25 or more physicians, includes enhanced support for Citrix-based EHR environments and a new centralized management console, the Burlington, Mass.-based company stated.

Nuance’s enterprise product empowers clinicians to navigate, dictate and correct medical documents within an EHR entirely by voice, even when operating within a Citrix environment. Dragon Medical Enterprise Network Edition works with major commercial EHR systems, including Cerner, Epic and Allscripts, according to Nuance.

Dragon Medical Enterprise Network Edition offers these new features:
  • Support for Citrix-based EHR environments: Nuance’s vSync technology creates a virtual channel between the PC and a Citrix-based EHR client application, allowing physicians to switch between dictation and typing, play-back dictation and correct medical notes via voice commands.
  • Centralized enterprise management tools: The server-based Nuance Management Console enables healthcare IT staff to administer Dragon Medical as an enterprise IT tool alongside the EHR, managing users and user options, monitoring license activity and distributing macros.
  • Automated updates: NuanceLink, an active link between the Nuance Management Console and the Nuance Update Server, provides content updates to provider organizations. Updates to vocabularies, including new medication lists, diagnoses lists and disease lists, are transmitted via a live feed.
  • Central user profile management: New security login and passwords, only available in Network Edition, ensure that clinicians’ voices are recognized. A new version of the Language Model/Acoustic Model Optimizer now runs offline while physicians dictate.

Dragon Medical Enterprise Network Edition users have access to nearly 80 medical vocabularies and regional accent support models. In addition, it offers commands for the creation of progress notes, HPI assessments, consultation and referral letters and other care plan documentation.

Mary Stevens

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