Nuance announces Dragon Medical 11 for Dutch-speaking markets

Nuance Communications has introduced Dragon® Medical 11 in Dutch, the latest version of its medical desktop, real-time speech recognition software. Developed to enable doctors to efficiently generate clinical letters and navigate clinical systems, Dragon Medical boosts productivity and performance, reduces costs, improves information accuracy and raises the quality of care. Dragon Medical 11 in Dutch is now available in Belgium and The Netherlands through Nuance’s network of certified partners.

By eliminating transcription work, medical professionals are able to spend more quality time with their patients. Dragon Medical 11 enables clinical letters to be dictated directly up to three times faster than typing, helping to meet targets to get discharge letters to patients within 24 hours. Dragon Medical’s accuracy rates of up to 99% ensure clear, accurate and timely clinical letters.

Dragon Medical has been optimised for non-native speakers, while new medical vocabularies cover a range of specialities and sub-specialities. Patient report confidentiality and compliance is assured through the robust encryption of audio and text files.

New features include Electronic Health Record (EHR) support, which makes it easy to navigate and dictate within existing clinical and diagnostic support applications, and ‘Hidden Mode’, which enables users to click anywhere within a clinical application while dictating, and then to add text where necessary afterwards.

Dragon Templates automate form-filling by adding voice-enabled fields in dictation templates. The customisable PowerMic hand-held microphone also allows buttons to be programmed to run any Dragon Medical function or user voice command.

Nuance Healthcare’s marketing director Frederik Brabant, M.D.: "Driving efficiency while elevating the level of patient care is a key goal of most healthcare organisations. Dragon Medical can play a role in increasing the quality of patient care, and safety, through improved clinical letter turnaround time and document consistency. It also has a proven track record in reducing costs. For many healthcare organisations, Dragon Medical will become a key component in addressing the challenges faced by medical professionals to deliver tangible improvements in both patient care and the bottom line.”

For more information visit http://netherlands.nuance.com/gezondheidszorg/dragon-medical/ or e-mail info.dragonmedical@nuance.com.