"When making SpeechMagic Citrix Ready, we focused on high compression rates that ensure a minimum latency time between the recording of a dictation, its recognition on the central server and the return of the recognized text to the user's screen," said Marcel Wassink, Vice President of SpeechMagic Solutions at Nuance.
"SpeechMagic will give Citrix-based Centricity RIS users secure and fast access to full-scale healthcare speech recognition - even from their Citrix terminals at home."
More than half of all radiologists in Western-Europe are working with SpeechMagic - in some countries, such as Spain, Italy, the UK, France or Norway, even throughout entire regional networks.
"Healthcare providers connect and communicate via networks that stretch across locations, cities and even entire regions. In this context, Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure centralizes software administration and allows for their efficient roll-out. Centricity RIS with integrated speech recognition reporting module runs now under Citrix", said Juergen Reyinger, Vice President and General Manager at GE Healthcare IT. "As speech recognition has established itself as the standard tool for radiology reporting, the integration of 'Citrix Ready' SpeechMagic technology, together with our RIS, is a key component in delivering our users' requirements."
First implementations of Centricity RIS with Speech Magic and Citrix are currently taking place in Ireland and Denmark. Centricity RIS 4.2 powered by SpeechMagic is available immediately in Europe, the Middle East, South America and English-speaking countries in Asia.
About Nuance's Healthcare Business
Nuance's Healthcare Business provides a comprehensive family of speech-driven clinical documentation and communication solutions that enable healthcare provider organizations to reduce operating costs, increase reimbursement, and enhance patient care and safety. No matter the specific requirements of a healthcare provider organization, Nuance has solutions to meet its needs. Nuance recently acquired Philips Speech Recognition Systems ( PSRS), a leader in speech recognition solutions, especially in the European healthcare market. With the combined resources of Nuance and PSRS, Nuance significantly enhances its ability to deliver innovative, speech-driven clinical documentation and communication solutions to healthcare organizations throughout Europe. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com/dictaphone/.
About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance Communications, Inc. (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. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.
GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com.