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Nuance Launches Healthcare Development Platform for the Cloud

By Rajani Baburajan
TMCnet Contributor

Nuance Communications, a provider of speech technology, announced that its medical speech recognition capabilities and advancements in Clinical Language Understanding (CLU) technology will be available through the Nuance (News - Alert) Healthcare Development Platform.

With the Nuance Healthcare Development Platform, a cloud-based platform, third-party developers can incorporate Nuance Healthcare technologies as part of a variety of healthcare applications. Developers can provide users with new capabilities for speech-driven clinical documentation, voice navigation and automatic clinical fact extraction, company officials said.

The Nuance Healthcare Development Platform supports multiple devices and operating systems. According to company officials, the platform provides the CPU intensive speech and language processing in the cloud.

This new cloud-based platform is designed to enable Healthcare Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and internal development teams at provider and payer organizations to embed Nuance's SpeechAnywhere capabilities and CLU functionality as part of browser-based applications, mobile applications and thin-client desktop solutions.

The environment of this new platform as a service expands the delivery of Nuance's speech and CLU technologies to enable healthcare organizations, physicians, inter disciplinary care teams and patients to achieve better patient documentation, better process and better care.

Dictation has proven to be among the most preferred, friendly and effective ways to document clinical information,” said Janet Dillione, executive VP and general manager, Nuance Healthcare, in a statement. “The Nuance platform is enabling application developers to an entire new ecosystem of healthcare applications that will help clinicians and patients create and use high quality clinical documentation better and smarter than ever before.”

Recently, Nuance Communications (News - Alert) announced that its SpeechAttendant 11, a speech-enabled auto attendant solution for corporate directories, is now in compliance with the open, extensible IP platform infrastructure from Avaya, a leading provider of business communications applications, systems and services.