Nuance's Vocada Veriphy(TM) Solution Links Hospital IT Systems for Enterprise-Wide...

Nuance's Vocada Veriphy(TM) Solution Links Hospital IT Systems for Enterprise-Wide Critical Test Result Management

Nuance's Dictaphone Healthcare Division Announces Vocada
Veriphy-Ready HL7 Integration Server, Speeds Closed-Loop Communication
of Critical Patient Findings, Bolsters Value of EMR Applications
BURLINGTON, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading supplier of
speech solutions, is today announcing the release of Nuance's
Dictaphone(R) Healthcare Division's Veriphy-Ready HL7 Integration
Server (VIS). VIS will automate the closed-loop communication process
for critical patient findings by allowing Vocada Veriphy, Dictaphone's
market-leading solution for critical test result management (CTRM), to
communicate directly with internal diagnostic systems and enterprise
wide clinical information systems.

Vocada Veriphy is currently the only end-to-end enterprise
solution for communicating critical test results from hospital
diagnostic departments to ordering clinicians, and has been proven in
deployments at more than 150 hospitals nationwide. In the wake of the
recently announced Veriphy 2.0, Dictaphone built VIS as a
Windows-based application integration platform, based on the most
widely deployed HL7 core engine on the market. Features include:

-- Seamless integration with internal systems, such as picture
archiving and communication systems (PACS), radiology
information systems (RIS), laboratory information systems
(LIS), electronic medical records (EMR) and hospital
information systems (HIS)

-- Automated communication of critical test results from any
internal diagnostic system to the ordering physician

-- Automated documentation of the critical test result's
distribution, receipt and verification within any internal
diagnostic system

-- The ability to automatically populate the patient record in
internal systems such as LIS, RIS and EMRs with the Veriphy
communications audit trail

"Veriphy facilitates a process for not just sending out critical
patient finding alerts, but for coding messages based on content,
priority and appropriate follow up," said Steven Defossez M.D.,
medical director of North Shore Magnetic Imaging Center in Peabody,
Massachusetts. "The value of having an effective, consistent way of
communicating patient information between providers is essential for
patient safety and provider productivity. CTRM has allowed us to
automate an otherwise unstructured, time-intensive process, improve
patient care and reduce malpractice risk with its auditable trail of
what happened, when. The ability to share Veriphy's audit trail across
multiple systems through the VIS product is an extension that will
help more hospitals get on board with best practices in clinical
communications."

VIS will make it easier for healthcare organizations to achieve
best practices in clinical communication--a task that has challenged
many. In 2006, nearly two-thirds of hospitals surveyed by The Joint
Commission failed to meet the accreditation requirement for
communication of critical test results. With VIS, hospitals can
improve the effectiveness of communication among caregivers to advance
patient safety, meet the guidelines of The Joint Commission and
overcome integration hurdles associated with legacy information
systems.

"The communication of critical test results amongst caregivers can
mean the difference between a patient's life or death; and as
recognized by The Joint Commission, a manual process is inefficient
and prone to errors. Veriphy provides a consistent and accountable way
to share, track and document high-priority patient information," said
Peter White, general manager, Veriphy, in the Dictaphone Healthcare
Division at Nuance. "With our recent announcement of Veriphy 2.0, we
expanded the solution's capability to better meet the needs of
hospital administrators and clinicians. With VIS, we're removing
barriers so all hospitals and labs can effectively manage their
critical test results for improved patient safety and increased
provider productivity without worrying about integration roadblocks."

Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions Division

Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions is a division of Nuance
Communications, Inc., a leading provider of speech and imaging
solutions. Dictaphone provides the most comprehensive family of
speech-driven clinical documentation and communications solutions.
Dictaphone solutions orchestrate and optimize clinical workflow,
reduce transcription expense, raise standards of care via more
thorough documentation, deliver results rapidly to meet patient safety
guidelines, and heighten clinician satisfaction by making EMR systems
easy to use. Dictaphone's solutions accelerate the adoption of
clinical information systems, so provider organizations can maximize
the return from their IT investments. For more information, please
visit www.nuance.com/dictaphone/.

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Nuance (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 and professional services. For more information, please
visit www.nuance.com.

Nuance, the Nuance logo and Veriphy are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its affiliates in the
United States and/or other countries. All other company names or
product names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Nuance Communications, Inc.
Holly Dewar, 781-565-4893
holly.dewar@nuance.com
or
SHIFT Communications
Jennifer Humiston, 617-779-1812
jhumiston@shiftcomm.com

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