KLAS Recognizes Six Distinct Dictaphone Healthcare
Solutions’ Products Within 2007 Year-End Top 20 Best
in KLAS Report
BURLINGTON, Mass., December 19, 2007 — Nuance Communications, Inc.
(NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading supplier of speech solutions, today announced that several
of its Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions products have been recognized by KLAS
Enterprises, LLC, a research and consulting organization specializing in monitoring and
reporting the performance of healthcare information technology (HIT) vendors, within
the 2007 Year-End Top 20 Best in KLAS Report. Six Dictaphone® solutions were
included in the KLAS report including two #1 rankings:
- Nuance’s PowerScribe® and RadWhere™ for Radiology applications are two out
of the top three ranked solutions in the General Market Software category for
front-end speech recognition
- Nuance’s Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® Medical, used by more than 50,000
clinicians in the US today to document care directly into an EMR, was ranked #1
within the Physician Practice Software category for front-end speech recognition
The KLAS year-end industry report is created from end-user feedback from more than
7,000 healthcare organizations that employ various vendor solutions across the industry.
In addition to its two #1 rankings in front-end speech recognition, Dictaphone Healthcare
Solutions is proud to have achieved status within the top three solutions ranked for the
following additional categories:
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Nuance’s EXSpeech® and EXText™ are listed as leading transcription and backend
speech recognition solutions
- Nuance’s EXVoice™ is listed as a leading dictation solution
“By remaining steadfast on Nuance’s commitment to exceptional quality, customer
service and innovative technology to meet both customer and broader industry demands,
the Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions products continue to be recognized across the
healthcare industry,” said Peter Durlach, senior vice president, healthcare marketing and
product strategy for Nuance. “KLAS’ repeated leadership rankings of our product family,
including PowerScribe for Radiology®, Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® Medical,
EXSpeech®, EXText™, EXVoice™ and the newly acquired RadWhere™ application
validates our strategy to simultaneously grow and enhance the Dictaphone Healthcare
Solutions portfolio through organic product development and through valuable market
partnerships, as shown with our recent acquisitions of and Vocada.”
The 2007 Year-End Top 20 Best in KLAS Report is a summary of healthcare industry IT
product performance collected over a 13 month period ending November 15, 2007. If you
have questions or if you would like to purchase a copy, visit the KLAS website at
www.healthcomputing.com. For more information on any of the top ranked products
mentioned in this release visit www.nuance.com/dictaphone/.
Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions Division
Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions is a division of Nuance Communications, a leading
provider of speech and imaging solutions. Dictaphone provides the most comprehensive
family of speech-driven clinical documentation and communications solutions.
Dictaphone® solutions orchestrate and optimize clinical workflow, reduce transcription
expense, raise standards of care via more thorough documentation, deliver results rapidly
to meet patient safety guidelines, and heighten clinician satisfaction by making EMR
systems easy to use. Dictaphone’s solutions accelerate the adoption of clinical
information systems, so provider organizations can maximize the return from their IT
investments. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com/dictaphone/.
Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for
businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services
make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with
information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users
and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications and professional
services. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.
About KLAS Enterprises
KLAS, founded in 1996, is the only research and consulting firm that specializes in
providing the healthcare information technology (HIT) industry with unbiased, factual
information on HIT vendor performance. KLAS, teamed with thousands of healthcare
executives, CIOs, directors, managers and clinicians, has created a dynamic database of
information on the performance of HIT vendors. The KLAS database represents the
opinions of healthcare executives, managers and clinicians from more than 4,500
hospitals and 2,500 clinics on more than 500 different products. The information
contained within the database is current, as it is refreshed daily with new performance
evaluations and interviews. KLAS utilizes a two-step process to collect candid
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