BURLINGTON, Mass., May 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuance®
Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced the
availability of its Dragon® Medical One cloud-based platform
in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Integrated within the electronic
health record (EHR), Dragon Medical One enables physicians to
capture the patient's complete story at the point of care, reducing
administrative workloads, while improving documentation quality and
care.
The three Nordic markets are among eight European countries
added in 2020 as part of Nuance's continued international expansion
of the Dragon Medical One cloud platform. Widely used in the U.S.
and trusted by hundreds of thousands of clinicians worldwide to
ease the burden of clinical documentation, Dragon Medical One also
is available in the U.K., Canada, Australia, France, Belgium, the
Netherlands, Germany and
Austria.
"By implementing Nuance's cloud-based Dragon Medical One, the
University Hospital Antwerp has laid the foundation for a smarter
and more efficient input of medical data into its electronic
patient record system. Ultimately the conversational intelligence
of the platform will allow doctors more time with their patients,"
says Reinhart Martens, CIO at the
University Hospital Antwerp (UZA) in Belgium.
"Relentless paperwork is not the reason why physicians trained
for so many years. They did it because they are passionate about
caring for and healing people. Physicians are doing their best to
manage all the required documentation and other administrative
requirements. Dragon Medical One reduces administrative work and
improves both documentation and quality of care," said Robert Dahdah, Executive Vice President and
Chief Revenue Officer at Nuance. "With the international expansion
of Dragon Medical One, we are accelerating the adoption of
conversational AI to help clinicians worldwide focus their
attention on their patients instead of the administrative
requirements."
Physicians now spend about twice as much time entering or
re-entering data into computers than they do interacting with
patients, causing what the president of the World Medical
Association has called a "pandemic of physician burnout," with 51
percent of physicians reporting frequent or constant feelings of
burnout. An international study showed that physicians in
Sweden are among the most stressed
in the 11 countries included in the study, with about 65 percent
reporting that their work is very or extremely stressful. Swedish
physicians also reported the most dissatisfaction with their
workloads. Now in times of COVID-19, the pressure has increased,
and the digitalization of the healthcare system is more important
than ever.
Dragon Medical One helps physicians produce clinical
documentation up to 45 percent faster and capture up to 20 percent
more relevant data using personalized tools on a wide range of
workstations and mobile devices. Doctors can document care
efficiently from any location and gain more time to spend on
patient care. They simply open the application, choose the
section they want to document, and start speaking to update the
EHR.
Dragon Medical One is hosted in the Microsoft Azure-certified
hosting infrastructure. Users benefit from secure and responsive
performance across their choice of devices and automatically gain
access to version updates via the cloud. "The ability to handle
data efficiently is the biggest enabler for improved quality in
healthcare. Cloud solutions and AI are important to successfully
automate processes and routines that free-up time for healthcare
professionals, which they can spend on their patients instead.
Nuance Dragon Medical One is a great example of how digitalization
can create new opportunities in healthcare," said Jennica Andersson, head of public sector at
Microsoft Sweden.
For more information about Dragon Medical One, click here.
About Nuance Healthcare
Nuance provides
intelligent systems that support a more natural and insightful
approach to clinical documentation, freeing clinicians to spend
more time caring for patients. Nuance healthcare solutions capture,
improve, and communicate more than 300 million patient stories each
year, helping more than 500,000 clinicians in 10,000 global
healthcare organizations to drive meaningful clinical and financial
outcomes. Nuance's award-winning clinical speech recognition,
medical transcription, CDI, coding, quality, and medical imaging
solutions provide a more complete and accurate view of patient
care.
About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance
Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN) is the pioneer and leader in
conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday
work and life. The company delivers solutions that understand,
analyze, and respond to people – amplifying human intelligence to
increase productivity and security. With decades of domain and AI
expertise, Nuance works with thousands of organizations globally
across healthcare, financial services, telecommunications,
government, and retail – to empower a smarter, more connected
world. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.
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