AHDI-Florida Recognizes Nuance’s Dictaphone® Healthcare Division for its Commitment to Supporting Continued Education in the Medical Transcription Community

BURLINGTON, Mass., March 27, 2008 – Nuance’s (NASDAQ: NUAN) Dictaphone Healthcare division today announced that it has been recognized by the Florida component of the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI), a national association devoted to educating medical professionals, the public and legislative and regulatory agencies about the important role of the medical transcriptionist (MT). AHDI’s Florida component has presented Dictaphone with an award for its continuous support of its mission and Annual Meeting and Educational Conference.

"The Dictaphone team has provided Florida's MTs with ongoing vendor support in their continuing education efforts," said Arlaine Walsh, CMT, FAAMT and 2008 AHDI-FI President. “In our effort to evolve the role of the transcriptionist and promote quality patient care through improved documentation and continued MT education, we see Dictaphone as a supporter of our association and its mission.”

Through the delivery of advanced speech recognition solutions, Dictaphone has driven significant increases in MT productivity for both in-house and outsourced medical transcription across North America. By allowing transcriptionists to review and edit highly accurate, speech-recognized, formatted draft documents instead of transcribing dictated reports from scratch, healthcare organizations can shorten turnaround time, improve processes and achieve significant, proven cost savings in medical transcription.

“We’re honored that AHDI-Florida has recognized our support of their association as we bring our new solutions to them as part of their continuing education process. Together with the caregiver, transcriptionists drive patient documentation. This award is particularly meaningful because it comes from MTs who use our solutions on a daily basis,” said Tony Icardona, vice president, Nuance’s iChart® managed services, Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions.

AHDI is the world's largest organization working to advance health data capture and documentation by setting standards for education and practice in the field of medical transcription and editing. Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, AHDI provides continuing education to its members through symposia and state/regional association meetings, as well as one national meeting each year. The Florida component will hold its Annual Meeting and Educational Conference April 4-5, 2008, in Jacksonville, FL. Dictaphone will be presented with its award at the event.

Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions Division

Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions is a division of Nuance Communications, Inc. 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 AHDI and MTIA

The Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI), formerly AAMT, has been the professional organization representing medical transcriptionists since 1978. AHDI sets standards of practice and education for medical transcriptionists, administers a certification program, has established a code of ethics, and advocates on behalf of the profession. There are over 135 component associations of AHDI, each of which holds regular educational meetings and symposia. For more information, visit www.aamt.org. The Medical Transcription Industry Association is the world’s largest trade association serving medical transcription service operators. Its mission is to create an environment in which medical transcription companies can prosper, grow, and deliver the highest level of healthcare documentation services. For more information, visit www.mtia.com.

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