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--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- 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 pre-defined 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 co-founder, 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 user-friendly 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:

  • Mr. HIStalk – Leading blog on hospital IT news, healthcare technology and healthcare industry trends
  • Dr. Steven Zuber – CMIO, Methodist Health System
  • Dr. Andres Jimenez – CEO, ImplementHIT
  • Janet Dillione – EVP and General Manager, Nuance Healthcare
  • 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/for-healthcare/index.htm.

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