Agfa HealthCare and Nuance Communications, Inc. have announced the integration of the newest version of Nuance's speech recognition software - 360 | SpeechAnywhere Services - in the ORBIS clinical information system (CIS). With the Nuance speech recognition functionalities, physicians who use ORBIS can enhance their productivity, allowing them to spend more time with their patients.
Simple, reliable, productive tools
Within the context of care facility reorganization and hospital budget reduction issues in France, voice recognition solutions for healthcare professionals are increasingly popular. Hospitals are looking for simple, reliable and productive tools that provide data capture, consultation and medical data-sharing functionalities on demand. After the successful integration of Nuance voice recognition into the heart of ORBIS in Germany since 2013, Agfa HealthCare and Nuance Communications are now demonstrating their commitment to offering an effective solution for the healthcare sector in France. "The direct integration of the new Nuance technology in our ORBIS solution is a strategic and significant milestone for Agfa HealthCare," says David Roussarie, ORBIS Sales Manager France, at Agfa HealthCare.
Embedded speech recognition
ORBIS users have access to the embedded speech recognition technology, and can use their voice to capture medical information directly into the patient record, whether in free text, fields or forms, for fast report creation. The dynamic and intuitive voice navigation lets the user control the check boxes, radio buttons or workflow options. This innovation helps create an optimal digital hospital environment. It significantly speeds up the availability of medical information and documentation for care teams. Paper documentation is reduced and non-integrated speech technology eliminated. The new, embedded integration reduces IT administrative efforts and their associated costs.
"Zero load on the client, zero integration and deployment effort"
"Based on the principle of zero load on the client, zero integration effort and zero deployment effort, hospitals can, in one click, equip each user with desktop speech recognition. It is an approach now fully implemented in ORBIS," comments Jean-Marc Torre, Pre-sales Manager at Nuance Healthcare France.
Speech recognition in ORBIS is now available with a software update or via voice activation with the ORBIS Speech solution. ORBIS users who already have Nuance healthcare voice recognition can retain their existing voice profiles and enhanced vocabulary with a simple upgrade.
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About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a leading provider of voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services increase the productivity of users by transforming the way people interact with information and create, share and use their documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance's professional services and proven applications.
About Nuance Healthcare
Nuance Healthcare, a division of Nuance Communications, enables healthcare professionals to use voice recognition - anywhere, anytime, using any device. Nuance Healthcare helps healthcare enterprises and physicians to accurately capture the patient story and transform it into meaningful, actionable information, in 22 languages. Today, more than 10,000 healthcare enterprises and more than 450,000 physicians around the world use Nuance voice recognition technology to offer the best healthcare, improve financial perforce, and meet the needs of the medical sector.
About Agfa
The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world's leading companies in imaging and information technology. Agfa develops manufactures and markets analogue and digital systems for the printing industry (Agfa Graphics), for the healthcare sector (Agfa HealthCare), and for specific industrial applications (Agfa Materials). Agfa is headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is present in 40 countries and has agents in another 100 countries around the globe. The Agfa-Gevaert Group achieved a turnover of 2,865 million euro in 2013.
About Agfa HealthCare
Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a leading global provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions. The company has nearly a century of healthcare experience and has been a pioneer on the healthcare IT market since the early 1990's. Today Agfa HealthCare designs, develops and delivers state-of-the-art systems for capturing, managing and processing diagnostic images and clinical/administrative information for hospitals and healthcare facilities, as well as contrast media solutions to enable effective medical imaging results. The company has sales offices and agents in over 100 markets worldwide. Sales for Agfa HealthCare in 2013 were 1,160 million euro.