“Incorporating speech recognition software from Nuance as part of the athenahealth’s cloud-based EHR service, athenaClinicals, is best practice and will deliver tremendous value to our customers as they work to create high-quality, real-time patient documentation.”īeyond the cost savings, Dragon Medical Practice Edition can save clinicians 40-60 minutes per day on documentation and supports more detailed documentation of patients’ history of present illness, more flexible review of symptoms, and more descriptive assessment and care plans. “Dragon Medical is a proven EHR-support solution that helps clinicians to fully and efficiently capture patient data as part of the medical record,” said Evan Grossman, vice president of product strategy, athenahealth. Today, Dragon Medical is helping more than 20 percent of small practices make this transition while saving as much as $10,000 per clinician/per year in reduced medical transcription costs, decreasing report turnaround time, and improving the comprehensiveness of patient medical records, which leads to more accurate reimbursement. With small physician practices continuing to feel the cost pressures and time constraints associated with integrating an EHR system as part of their clinical workflow, the implementation of real-time, medical speech recognition becomes imperative. “Since speech-enabling our EHR, I have also been able to spend less time editing medical records and more time focusing on patient care.” It allows me to capture the unique, patient narrative and add detail that simply cannot be documented with templates,” says Andrew Fireman, MD of AMS Cardiology, a 17 physician cardiology practice based in Abington, Penn. “I rely on the EHR for point-and-click data capture, but for subjective information, as well as my conclusions and impressions, I use Dragon Medical. Dragon Medical Practice Edition yields a 15 percent improvement in accuracy over previous Dragon Medical releases and contains additional features that will be especially beneficial to physicians in small practices, which make up an estimated 40 percent of the total U.S. With real-time, voice-driven clinical documentation clinicians are empowered to capture a more thorough patient story without sacrificing time.
Like its predecessors, Dragon Medical Practice Edition will help clinicians and healthcare organizations to create medical notes directly into any EHR in real-time. Dragon Medical solutions have been proven to support clinicians at healthcare organizations of all sizes in utilizing electronic health records (EHR) and accelerating Meaningful Use. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today unveiled Dragon Medical Practice Edition, the latest addition to the Dragon Medical portfolio of medical speech recognition solutions. Advanced, Real-Time, Medical Speech Recognition Supports Clinicians’ Documentation Preferences While Driving EHR Adoption, Quality Input and Accurate ReimbursementīURLINGTON, Mass.-( BUSINESS WIRE)- Nuance Communications, Inc.