St James’s Hospital Selects Dictaphone PowerScribe from Nuance to Speech-Enable Radiology Department

In First Week of Use, Republic of Ireland’s Largest Hospital Eliminates 100% of Radiology Backlog with Speech Recognition

LONDON, United Kingdom, February 28, 2008 - Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that St James’s Hospital, Dublin - the Republic of Ireland’s largest hospital – has selected its Dictaphone PowerScribe to automate the creation of patient reports using highly-accurate speech recognition. In its first week of use, PowerScribe enabled the radiology department of the hospital to eliminate 100% of the backlog of patient reports, and to begin benefiting from the power of speech recognition within the department.

Healthcare professionals around the world rely on Dictaphone transcription processing and speech-recognition solutions to improve the accuracy of patient reports, reduce report turn-around time and enhance the quality of patient care. Dictaphone PowerScribe for Radiology, developed by Nuance, it combines highly-accurate speech recognition with automated workflow optimized specifically for radiology departments, resulting in an unrivalled level of accuracy and time-savings for radiology specialists.

“St James’s Hospital is respected for its thoughtful selection of technologies which deliver enhanced levels of patient care and improve their quality of service,” says Jeff Boulton, Sales Director Healthcare at Nuance. “As a result, their selection of Dictaphone PowerScribe is a strong endorsement of the value and quality of our solutions, and in the power of speech recognition within important healthcare workflows.”

PowerScribe unifies the radiology information system (RIS), picture archiving and communications system (PACS) and electronic ordering processes, and includes advanced features that further reduce the time needed to complete a patient report, including pre-defined templates, a single log-on for PowerScribe and RIS/PACS systems, electronic sign-off and data integration with electronic medical records (EMR) systems. The Dictaphone PowerScribe system at St. James is used daily by a team of more than 15 radiologists, and has been integrated with a Cerner Radiology Information System, which was already in use at the hospital.

Nuance Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions

Nuance’s Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions Division provides comprehensive dictation and transcription solutions and services that improve the way patient data is captured, processed and used changing the way people process and work with medical information. Through the integration of speech recognition and natural language processing within existing health information management workflow, Nuance’s Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions offerings help healthcare organizations save money and improve patient care by improving the turn around time, accuracy and usability of their medical documentation. Nuance Healthcare Solutions are one of the most respected technology solutions vendors in the healthcare industry, with an installed base of dictation and transcription software systems serving over 3,000 hospitals around the world.

For more information, please visit Nuance.com/Dictaphone.

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Nuance (NASDAQ: NUAN) is the 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 nuance.co.uk.

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