Nuance Communications has launched a new suite of mobile speech applications for voice-enabled documentation, speech recognition, voice-based search and digital dictation.
The powerful new iPhone mobile speech applications for healthcare are powered by Dragon NaturallySpeaking software.
Nuance says that by applying its speech recognition and capture technologies to smartphones, beginning with the iPhone, Nuance can help healthcare professionals efficiently access clinical information and document patient encounters using mobile devices.
Nuance demoed some of the new applications at HIMSS10 in Atlanta last week, and says it will launch the products during 2010, beginning this spring.
Dragon medical mobile dictation, offers an application that enables clinicians to dictate patient notes, emails and text messages instead of typing them on a mobile device.
Dragon medical mobile search provides an intuitive voice-based search for clinicians, enabling them to easily search medical websites using voice commands.
Dragon medical mobile recorder meanwhile is said to offer on-the-go digital dictation on a smartphone. The application is designed for use in conjunction with Dragon’s enterprise-wide speech-enabled dictation and transcription solutions.
In addition to its own applications Dragon announced the launch of a Dragon medical Mobile software developer kit, offered to third-party healthcare IT companies and partners.
The first company to embed the tools in its own mobile application suite is Eclipsys, which has incorporated speech-driven navigation and clinical documentation in its new Sunrise Clinical Manager EHR system for the iPhone.
According to Manhatten Research by 2011 some 81% of US physicians are expected to be using smartphones.
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