Radiology Industry Continues to Standardize on Dictaphone® PowerScribe® for Speech Recognition

Acceleration in Sales Validates Nuance Strategy to Integrate Radiology Speech Reporting and Communications with Best-in-Class Quality, Accuracy and Value

PROVIDENCE, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading supplier of speech and imaging solutions, today announced continued momentum with customer deployments and product developments for Dictaphone® PowerScribe® Workstation, a speech recognition solution for high-efficiency radiology reporting. Nuance is proud to announce:

“The success and continued market momentum of PowerScribe is a result of the product’s genesis. It was built from the ground up for radiology, by radiologists and for radiologists”

• Strong, Continued Market Adoption – 55 new customers including MultiCare, Inova Healthcare, Novant Health and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center chose PowerScribe as their radiology reporting system of choice in the first four months of 2007 alone.
• Expanding Partnerships – Dictaphone has signed up more than 45 partners in its PACS/RIS Extension Partner Program (PREPP) enabling radiology customers to pick from the market leading community of integrated radiology image interpretation and reporting solutions.
• Product Enhancement – Today at The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Nuance announced PowerScribe Workstation version 4.8. With this release, PowerScribe adds critical new functionality including embedded Vocada Veriphy, to provide a more simplified critical results reporting user interface for radiologists, and embedded Amirsys STATdx Clinical Decision Support, to allow radiologists easy access to evidence-based, point of care reference material. (See separate press release at http://www.nuance.com/news/ for more information on this news).

Nuance attributes the growing success of PowerScribe to the solution’s ability to answer the radiology industry’s demand for faster report turnaround time, reduced transcription costs, higher levels of satisfaction from referring physicians and enhanced patient care.

Bringing the total number of Dictaphone PowerScribe customers to more than 960, PowerScribe implementations are found at prestigious institutions including:

• Memorial-Hermann Healthcare System of Texas
• Jefferson Health System of Pennsylvania
• Mt. Sinai Hospital of Chicago, Illinois
• University of Virginia of Virginia
• Duke University Medical Center of North Carolina

“Finding a solution to improve radiologist productivity, enhance report consistency and deliver timely results were part of the escalating transcription and reporting pressures on our radiology department,” said Joe Thornton, Director of Imaging Services, Medical West, an Affiliate of the UAB Health System. “We embraced speech recognition technology to streamline report creation and distribution workflow; and we choose PowerScribe because of the application’s seamless integration into our existing IT environment, while delivering market leading accuracy and cost savings.”

PowerScribe saves healthcare organizations thousands of dollars per radiologist each year, automates the clinical documentation process and reduces the long turnaround time associated with the manual transcription of radiology interpretations, part of a $10 billion transcription industry in North America alone.

“The success and continued market momentum of PowerScribe is a result of the product’s genesis. It was built from the ground up for radiology, by radiologists and for radiologists,” said Peter Durlach, senior vice president, marketing and product strategy, Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions, Nuance. “This product stands up against the competition because we are continuously evolving its feature set with the end-user in mind. Version 4.8 builds upon our commitment to provide busy, practicing radiologists with tools to automate documentation, streamline workflow and improve patient care by ensuring critical test results are delivered quickly and accurately.”

Nuance is driving the digitization of patient information with the world’s most accurate speech and language technologies. For more information on Dictaphone PowerScribe, go to http://www.nuance.com/powerscribe/. For sales and pricing information, please call 1-888-350-4836.

Nuance has integrated Dictaphone PowerScribe Workstation with a wide range of leading Radiology Information Systems (RIS) and Picture Archival and Communication Systems (PACS) to allow Radiology departments to utilize an integrated image interpretation and reporting workflow, and eliminate redundant hardware. More information on the PACS/RIS Extension Partner (PREPP) program can be found by clicking on this link: http://nuance.com/powerscribe/radiology/partners.asp.

Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions Division

Nuance’s Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions Division provides comprehensive dictation and transcription solutions and services that improve the way patient data is captured, processed and used, changing the way people process and work with medical information. Through the integration of speech recognition and natural language processing within existing health information management workflow, Nuance’s Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions offerings help healthcare organizations save money and improve patient care by improving the turn around time, accuracy and usability of their medical documentation. For more information, please visit http://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 http://www.nuance.com/.

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