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Live from HIMSS: Nuance Healthcare Announces Winners of the 2012
Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge
Over 30 Developers Accepted Nuance’s Challenge to Give Mobile Clinicians a
Voice
LAS VEGAS, HIMSS 2012, Booth #3523, February 22, 2012 – Today, from HIMSS, Nuance
Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) announced the winners of the 2012 Mobile Clinician
Voice Challenge, a month-long event that called upon healthcare developers to voice-enable
mobile or web-based healthcare applications.
According to market research from RNCOS, physician adoption of mobile devices in healthcare
is expected to reach 81-85 percent this year, heightening the need for intuitive, user-friendly
healthcare applications that enhance clinicians’ experience, improve mobile workflow and lead
to better patient care. As part of the 2012 Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge, developers had
access to the 360 | Development Platform (formerly the Nuance Healthcare Developer Program),
which supports multiple devices and operating systems and enables developers to seamlessly and
quickly embed Nuance’s SpeechAnywhere services into their healthcare applications.
“Through access to Nuance’s secure, cloud-based, medical speech recognition platform
developers were challenged to give mobile clinicians a voice,” said Janet Dillione, executive vice
president and general manager, Nuance Healthcare. “Developers stepped up to the challenge and
delivered some truly innovative clinical applications including disease management tools,
diagnosis checklist systems, physician-patient interaction and communication tools, and practice
management apps that will help mobile clinicians research, access, create and share clinical
information faster than ever before.”
Our judging panel (see panel participants detailed below) reviewed all submissions based on predefined judging criteria – including Innovation, Functional Implementation, Workflow and
Patient Care Benefits, and Visual Appeal – and selected SparrowEDIS, developed by Montrue
Technologies, Inc., as the grand prize winner.
SparrowEDIS is an emergency department information system for the iPad that allows doctors
and nurses to dictate, through Nuance Healthcare-powered voice recognition technology, the
clinical narrative at the point-of-care. With the added layer of medical voice recognition,
clinicians can also check for prescription interaction issues, create prescription orders, and share
discharge instructions at the bedside all through voice, helping to streamline emergency
medicine workflow and improve patient safety. For more insight into the winning app from
Montrue Technologies, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/SavetheDrNote
“As an emergency doctor, I know access to the clinical narrative is crucial in enabling us to get a
360 degree view of a patient. I also know that speech recognition is the best way to capture this
narrative in its fullest form, and in the most efficient fashion,” says Brian Phelps, CEO and cofounder, Montrue Technologies, Inc. “By speech-enabling our app, SparrowEDIS, on Nuance’s
360 | Development Platform we are able to capture the essence of the patient doctor
relationship.”
Following grand prize recognition, first prize in Nuance’s Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge was
awarded to healthcare application developer, Remedy Systems. By speech-enabling their Deep
Query Engine app, they’ve enabled physicians to interact and organize their practice via voice
commands, much like a mobile, medical personal assistant. Second prize was given to
WholeSlide, Inc., a technology company that creates novel tools for image viewing and analysis,
for their educational program app. With WholeSlide’s voice-enabled app, clinicians and
researchers are able to rapidly annotate regions of the apps hosted histology, hematology, and
pathology data via spoken form to quickly share with colleagues.
“What was evident from the broad range of speech-driven mobile applications submitted as part
of the Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge, is there’s a need for a more integrated approach to the
development process and we’re just starting to see a smart focus on apps that are truly userfriendly for the medical community,” said Dr. Andres Jimenez, CEO, ImplementHIT. ”As a
practicing physician, and consultant working with large healthcare organizations to implement
health IT, evaluating these new mobile apps from both perspectives helped me realize that
speech-enabling apps will greatly facilitate adoption by healthcare providers.”
2012 Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge Judging Panel:
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Mr. HIStalk – Leading blog on hospital IT news, healthcare technology and healthcare
industry trends
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Dr. Steven Zuber – CMIO, Methodist Health System
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Dr. Andres Jimenez – CEO, ImplementHIT
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Janet Dillione – EVP and General Manager, Nuance Healthcare
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Jonathon Dreyer – Senior Manager, Mobile Solutions Marketing, Nuance Healthcare
To learn more about Nuance’s 360 | Development Platform and to catch a live demo of the
winning app, SparrowEDIS, please visit the Nuance booth #3523 at HIMSS on Wednesday,
February 22 at 4:30 PM PST.
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/forhealthcare/index.htm.
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About Nuance Communications, Inc
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the continued development of Nuance products. The reader is warned not to rely on these
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situation. Nuance disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result
of developments occurring after the date of this document.
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