EHI’s industry round-up: appointments
This special edition of the EHI industry round-up covers appointments made by major suppliers in the healthcare IT industry and some NHS bodies whose work impacts on it. Dr Mark Ferrar joins GS1 UK board GS1 UK, the global supply chain standards and solutions organisation, has appointed an executive from NHS Connecting for Health to […]
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Nuance buys UK’s Spinvox
UK technology firm Spinvox, which converts voicemails into texts, has been bought by US speech recognition firm Nuance for a knockdown €71m (£64m). Nuance is a dominant player in the healthcare applications of digital dictation and voice recognition technologies. Spinvox had been regarded as one of the most promising British technology firms, but had failed […]
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SRC and Bluewire e-discharge summary
SRC and Bluewire Technologies have announced a partnership to provide healthcare organisations with web-based clinical information solutions. The first result of the partnership is an electronic discharge summary that SRC will market and deploy to the NHS, alongside its digital dictation, voice recognition and document production products. The partners claim the eDischarge Summary will help […]
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Nuance releases Dragon Medical 10
Nuance Communications has released the latest version of its Dragon Medical 10 speech recognition software for the healthcare sector, in the UK and Ireland. The firm says the new software is nearly twice as fast as the previous version and offers improved accuracy. Dragon Medical 10 allows doctors to create medical documents and e-mails, search […]
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Nuance and GE complete RIS-SpeechMagic integration
Nuance Communications has successfully integrated its SpeechMagic technology into GE Healthcare Centricity Radiology Information System (RIS). The development is said to be the first RIS integration with a Citrix ready speech recognition for the European Middle East and Africa region. According to Nuance community hospitals, out-patient imaging centres and integrated delivery networks can now implement […]
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Microsoft says Amalga speech deal unchanged
Microsoft’s licensing deal with Philips Speech Recognition Systems to integrate the firm’s speech recognition technology in its Amalga health software is unaffected by the sale of the Philips business unit.
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Nuance buys Philips Speech Recognition Systems
Philips has sold its Philips Speech Recognition Systems (PSRS) to US-based Nuance Communications for €66m ($96.1m).
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Dublin’s St James’s links speech and radiology
Ireland’s largest hospital, St James’s Hospital in Dublin, is using Nuance Communication’s PowerScribe dictaphone system to automate the creation of patient radiology reports using speech recognition. The Nuance system has been integrated with St James’s Cerner-supplied RadNet radiology system. In its first week of use, Nuance say PowerScribe has enabled the radiology department of the […]
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BridgeForward to integrate Dictaphone solution
Nuance’s Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions division will use BridgeForward Software’s Edge4 integration layer to support integration of its Vocada Veriphy critical test result management (CTRM) solution with other clinical information systems. Vocada Veriphy is used to create an advanced channel for communication of patient findings within a hospital and across multiple hospitals and departments, used across […]
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BT’s big mission
In an exclusive interview BT Health’s managing director Patrick O’Connell updates EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how BT is progressing on its three NPfIT contracts.
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