Interesting agreement announced today between Voicebrook and Nuance Communications combining two industry leaders with their respective technologies related to anatomic pathology reporting further strengthens VoiceOver and Dragon products.   

Voicebrook and Nuance Partner to Provide Speech-Powered Reporting Solutions for Anatomic Pathology Laboratories

 Nuance’s Dragon^® Medical 360 Technology to Power Voicebrook’s Industry-Leading VoiceOver^® Software

LAKE SUCCESS, NY, March 14, 2012 – Voicebrook today announced an agreement with Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), in which the two leaders in clinical documentation solutions will work together to deliver comprehensive, speech-enabled reporting solutions for anatomic pathology laboratories. Voicebrook will adapt its industry-leading VoiceOver^® software to maximize and incorporate the benefits of Nuance’s Dragon^® Medical 360 | Network Edition products.

Powered by Nuance’s advanced speech recognition technology, VoiceOver^® is a key component in optimizing anatomic pathology Laboratory Information System (LIS) and Digital Pathology workflows.  Used by more than 200 of the most prestigious private and hospital laboratories across the United States and Canada, VoiceOver^® is proven to deliver enormous savings, efficiencies, and quality improvements to anatomic pathology laboratories.   

“We have partnered with Nuance for over 10 years to bring high-quality speech recognition-based reporting solutions to healthcare organizations.  Our latest agreement expands on this relationship and allows us to provide the most comprehensive speech recognition and reporting solutions for the pathology market,” said Joseph Desiderio, President, Voicebrook.  By pairing VoiceOver^®, our industry-leading Pathology reporting solution, with Nuance’s award-winning Dragon^® Medical 360 line of products, we can offer pathology departments the most advanced solution possible.  We are excited to expand our relationship with Nuance and provide our customers with the healthcare industry’s premier speech platform.  The combination of Nuance’s expertise in creating world-class medical speech recognition applications and our deep knowledge and history in creating pathology reporting solutions makes us uniquely qualified to address the needs of this diverse and challenging market.”

VoiceOver^® includes “Integration Personalities” that voice-optimize all major LIS and Digital Pathology systems, allowing pathology professionals to choose between 100 percent user created, and digital dictation or delegated speech recognition solutions.  VoiceOver^® can also be used to incorporate voice and additional automation to improve other processes including gross photography, slide labeling, even coding and billing. 

“By combining Nuance’s Dragon Medical speech recognition and Voicebrook’s experience in developing and implementing pathology reporting solutions, the companies will deliver high-value solutions, empowering pathologists to rapidly create comprehensive, accurate pathology reports at a significant savings and with near-instant turnaround time, versus laboratory-wide traditional transcription or digital dictation-based solutions,” said Carina Edwards, vice president, healthcare solutions, Nuance Healthcare.   

For more information, please visit http://www.voicebrook.com. 

About Voicebrook

Voicebrook is the leading provider of integrated speech recognition and digital dictation solutions for Pathology. Voicebrook’s VoiceOver^® software integrates directly with most AP/LIS systems, and has been widely deployed in Pathology throughout the US and Canada.  Voicebrook has developed specific best practices for implementation and on-going support, ensuring the most successful deployments of integrated speech recognition technology for Pathology.

Nuance Healthcare

Nuance Healthcare, a division of Nuance Communications, is the market leader in providing clinical understanding solutions that accurately capture and transform the patient story into meaningful, actionable information.  Thousands of hospitals, providers and payers worldwide trust Nuance voice-enabled clinical documentation and analytics solutions to facilitate smarter, more efficient decisions across the healthcare enterprise.  These solutions are proven to increase clinician satisfaction and HIT adoption, supporting organizations to achieve Meaningful Use of EHR systems and transform to the accountable care model.  Recognized as “Best-in-KLAS” 2004-2011 for Voice Recognition we invite you to learn more, http://www.nuance.com/for-healthcare/index.htm. 

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Source: Voicebrook