Nuance Communications has launched an AI-powered virtual assistant solution for healthcare providers.
The Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant is intended to help clinicians who use Dragon Medical streamline their clinical documentation. The solution uses conversational dialogues and pre-built capabilities that automate high-value clinical workflows.
Nuance’s new virtual assistant will use conversational AI capabilities to help healthcare providers optimise the experiences they have with their electronic health records (EHRs). It’s intended to free up clinicians’ time so patients get a better experience and also to lower physician burnout.
David Y. Ting, CMIO, Massachusetts General Physicians Organisation, said “Technology needs to be unobtrusive and support the process of providing high quality patient care—not get in the way. Having Nuance’s AI-powered virtual assistant technology embedded into the EHR will help make a new generation of patient care a reality – for both clinicians and patients.”
Peter Durlach, senior vice president of strategy, Healthcare Division, Nuance: said: “Nuance is helping to create a world where clinicians can refocus on their patients without technology getting in the way. Our healthcare virtual assistant and smart speaker innovations are designed to enable the clinician to get back to why they went to medical school – to take care of people. By spending more time with patients, the quality of care will increase, patients will be more satisfied with their experience and clinicians will be less burnt out.”
Features of Nuance’s Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant include:
- Voice recognition technology designed for healthcare: This cloud-based offering enables any individual, using specialised medical terminology, to communicate naturally with high accuracy and no voice training across a range of devices and applications.
- Voice biometrics and text-to-speech: The solution utilises Nuance’s award-winning voice biometrics and text-to-speech capabilities for advanced security and clinician usability.
- Unparalleled integrations and strategic healthcare IT relationships: The offering contains embedded, unique and sophisticated workflow capabilities across major electronic health record (EHR) systems that clinicians use every day across mobile, web, and desktop platforms.
- Prototype smart speaker customised for healthcare provider settings and use cases: A prototype, specialised healthcare smart speaker connects to the Dragon Medical cloud and is optimised for clinical interactions and ambient speech clinical workflows.
- Secure and reliable platform: The solution leverages the HITRUST CSF certified Microsoft Azure cloud hosting platform to deliver the enhanced performance, security, and privacy today’s providers require.
