BURLINGTON, Mass. May 13, 2008 - Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading supplier of speech solutions, today announced the launch of its Dictaphone Healthcare division’s RadCube, a web-based business intelligence tool for advanced clinical data mining, analysis and classification to drive trend identification and forecasting for better radiology and business decisions.

RadCube is a core component of Dictaphone’s end-to-end, closed-loop radiology management product portfolio, which includes a set of solutions built to significantly improve diagnostic imaging workflow and support the radiology practice from start to finish.

By adding business intelligence to the radiology data capture and review process, healthcare organizations can access and analyze data that would otherwise remain disparate and unstructured. RadCube is an automated solution that works seamlessly within the radiology operations environment to collect and structure data from computerized physician order entry (CPOE), radiology decision support (RadPort), speech reporting (PowerScribe and RadWhere for Radiology) and critical test result management (Veriphy) applications.

“We have entered an era where high quality and efficiency are rewarded. More than ever before, the availability of easy-to-use analytics is of tremendous importance to the operation of a radiology practice. Data-driven analysis of modality utilization, physician ordering patterns, radiology reporting and patient outcomes is an incredible and much needed addition to the radiology process,” said David Mendelson, medical director, radiology informatics and chief of clinical informatics, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York. “Our early experience with RadCube has demonstrated that it is an effective and user-friendly tool that can quickly derive valuable performance metrics and business indicators. The combination of graphical presentation of data along with raw numbers provides the ideal means to instantly understand trends and calculate forecasts. This is a tool that practice leadership can use directly, on a daily basis, and will diminish the need for contract services.”

Benefits associated with integrating RadCube into an organization’s radiology management toolset include:

Business Productivity—Measure radiologist and technologist workflow based on such factors as exam volume, relative value and financial return.

Quality Assurance—Compare clinical findings and recommendation rates for radiologist and subspecialty groups. Track peer review and discrepancies. Analyze report consistency combined with macro usage and dictation patterns.

Utilization Management—Compare physician ordering habits and decision support appropriateness ratings as it relates to ordered medical imaging exams for patient care and radiation safety.

Throughput Analysis—Calculate report turn-around time, patient wait times, exams moving through picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) and referring physician report review.

Communication Management—Understand the status of all departmental communications; track time to receipt and acknowledgement, outstanding communications and response metrics based upon radiologist, referring physicians, exam type and findings type.

Trending and Forecasting—Analyze historic trends and predict future events; determine the impact of additional modalities, radiologists and imaging center throughput on your practice financials.

Benchmarking—Compare available metrics to industry standards and peers via consulting partners.

“RadCube goes significantly beyond a data warehouse to tie together and extract value from the various solutions that drive the radiology practice. It intelligently exposes useable information for operational analysis at both the clinical and business level,” said Michael Mardini, vice president, medical imaging, Dictaphone Healthcare Division, Nuance. “A significant part of data interpretation is the structure and way in which information is presented. We’re excited and confident that RadCube will seamlessly integrate with the solutions that already drive radiology departments’ workflow and provide unprecedented value.”

RadCube’s real-time, multifaceted approach to data structuring is a result of the merging of On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) and web architecture technologies. Additionally, RadCube is powered by LEXIMER, a proprietary Natural Language Processing engine designed in partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital specifically for the medical imaging domain. With LEXIMER, RadCube uses data mining algorithms to extract, structure and classify free-form, narrative dictation found within radiology reports. RadCube’s structured, encoded reports can be used for quality assurance, quality control and outcomes analysis for auditing such things as patient findings, provider recommendations and follow up, as well as diagnosis type.

RadCube is available to the market today and works together with the Dictaphone radiology documentation and communication software portfolio, PowerScribe, Veriphy, RadPort, and RadWhere. RadCube can also be integrated within any radiology environment and can be used in combination with RIS, PACS and CPOE solutions.

For more information, including demonstrations of RadCube, visit Nuance’s Dictaphone Healthcare booth #225 at SIIM 2008, the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, May 15-18 in Seattle.

Healthcare Solutions Division

Healthcare Solutions is a division of Nuance Communications, 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.

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