Nuance - Healthcare Solutions

Proven
Global network of more than 100 integration partners deployed at more than 8,000 sites in 70 nations.

Platform
SpeechMagic is seamlessly integrated into Information Systems (IS) or Reporting Solutions, enabling the end user to efficiently capture information within their familiar working environment.

Industrial grade
SpeechMagic captures dictated information and automatically generates formatted and structured medical information — whether for a small practice, a large hospital or a group of hospitals.

Flexible workflows
SpeechMagic allows the user to choose their preferred and most efficient workflow to capture medical information — switch between frontend and backend recognition when required or use both.

Across the world
SpeechMagic supports the largest language portfolio in the industry with 25 recognition languages and provides 150 specialized recognition vocabularies (ConTexts).

Features

Scalable
With a network-based, distributed architecture, central, low-effort administration and maintenance, SpeechMagic scales up to more than 100,000 users at one site.

Citrix Ready™
SpeechMagic is Citrix Ready™, allowing for all reporting use cases (digital dictation, front-end recognition, correction) to run within a citrix infrastructure. SpeechMagic components run on fat clients as well as thin clients (Windows XP Embedded, Linux) which allows roll-out of speech technology without compromises.

Continuous learning
SpeechMagic automatically and continuously adapts to the way you dictate based on your final reports.

Intelligent Speech Interpretation
SpeechMagic developed intelligent Speech interpretation (ISI) technology and allows the understanding of natural language, thus reducing the correction effort for both the transcriptionists and the doctors who look after the reporting process themselves.

It leaves out the ‘um’s and ‘eh’s, ignores dialogue that is not part of the dictation, implements corrections that are dictated as part of the text, flls the information into forms, and even rephrases sentences.

And, not least, it formats and organizes text, for example adding section headings, numbering lists and inserting standard blocks of content.

Reporting scenarios

Backend speech recognition
The user dictates directly into the computer or on a mobile dictation device. The dictation is converted into text in the background and then transmitted to an in-house or outsourced transcription service for editing.

Frontend speech recognition with deferred correction:
The recognized text appears directly on the user’s screen. after finishing the dictation, the text and audio files are edited by your transcriptionist.

Front-end speech recognition with online correction:
Doctors have full control of their reports; recognition and correction overseen directly, by themselves, on their PC.

Speech recognition in disconnected mode: Doctors can access the dictation and speech recognition system outside the central network, on a laptop or tablet PC. Upon reconnecting the device to the network, the central functions and services are performed.

Datasheets

• SpeechMagic product overview
• Top 10 innovations
• ISO9001 certificate

Case studies

• The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London Implements Soliton Powered by SpeechMagic and Boosts X-ray Reporting Productivity by 40 Percent
• Omaha’s Alegent Health Uses Fusion® Powered by SpeechMagic for Speech Recognition that Yields a 17 Percent Dictation Volume Gain
• Australia’s Children’s Hospital at Westmead Integrates SpeechMagic with it’s RIS and PACS Systems to Eliminate a Previous Two-week Medical Report Backlog
• The Sir Mortimer B. Davis - Jewish General Hospital in Montreal Accelerates the Delivery of Critical Information in the ER Using SpeechMagic and PDAs
• HCA International, a Private Hospital Group in London, Deploys SpeechMagic to Reduce Average Medical Imaging Report Turnaround Time to Under a Minute
• The UK’s Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Trains Their 60-Person Radiology Department on SpeechMagic within Two Weeks to Put Them More in Control of Their Work
• The National Healthcare Systems (NHS) Facilities in Northumbria, UK, Improve Turnaround Time 98 percent with MediSpeech® Powered by SpeechMagic
• Germany’s Evangelische Stiftung Augusta Hospitals Cite SpeechMagic as the Reason They Create Reports in 54 to 98 Percent Less Time
• Boronovo Hospital in the Netherlands Implements MediSpeech Powered by SpeechMagic across the Entire Hospital and Reduces Backlogs by Over 90 Percent
• The Belgian AZ Sint-Jozef Hospital Integrates SpeechMagic with its RIS System and Ensures that Radiology Reports are Finished and Validated on the Same Day
• Oslo’s Ulleval University Hospital Incorporates SpeechMagic Speech Recognition with New RIS and PACS Systems, Reducing Report Finalization Time by 96 Percent
• The Vejle County Hospital in Denmark Improves Health Record Quality and Brings Productivity Up by Five to Seven Percent with Integration of SpeechMagic in the EHR

Welcome to the SpeechMagic partner area

• Log on to the SpeechMagic Partner Web.
• If you already are a partner integrating SpeechMagic and do not yet have Partner Web access, email us.
• For technical assistance go to iSupport.

Where to buy?

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If you are a software company interested in integrating SpeechMagic into your solutions or applications, please send your request to: sales.speechmagic@nuance.com.

Benefits for Users

Profitable
Speech recognition implementations are described as highly profitable IT projects, allowing an increase in productivity by speeding up turnaround time and allowing the re-allocation of the budget money saved.

Flexible
You can change the way of working anytime. Decide whether you want to have the recognition done in the background (backend), want to see the recognised text immediately and directly edit it yourself (frontend) or, after dictating, send the dictation to a transcriptionist (deferred frontend).

Immediate and continuous adaptation
SpeechMagic automatically and continuously adapts to the way you dictate based on your final reports.

Medical formatting
SpeechMagic transcribes dosages, measurements, etc. into a standardised format; SpeechMagic ensures full compliance to medical standards.

Optional Initial Training
Training of the voice user profile is not required. We recommend initial training for non-native speakers.

Benefits for Administrators

Supports multiple input devices
SpeechMagic processes sound files recorded via telephone, microphone, mobile digital devices, PDA, MCA, tablet PC, etc.

SpeechMagic for roaming users
With SpeechMagic integrated into the hospital IT system, dictation, recognition and correction are independent of location, across a Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), the Internet, or disconnected. The system is optimised to ensure fast access and minimise network traffic.

Scalable
With a network-based, distributed architecture, central, low-effort administration and maintenance, SpeechMagic scales up to more than 100,000 users at one site.

Safe
SpeechMagic ensures fail safety and data integrity for reliable, robust and secure system operation.

Central
SpeechMagic allows efficient, central system administration and supports client/server-based architecture, ensuring that authors are not restricted to one workstation. Vocabularies can be shared between authors and cost-effectively administered centrally.

Audio compression
SpeechMagic ensures low network bandwidth requirements by offering optimal audio compression (19 kBit/s).

Full support of multi-processor machines
SpeechMagic takes full advantage of multi-processor platforms to save data centre space for large deployments. SpeechMagic components can also be used in parallel with other resource-intensive applications.

Intelligent job routing
SpeechMagic has the tools to decide per report whether correction or transcription is more efficient in order to maximise overall productivity.

Management reporting
SpeechMagic calculates productivity-based performance parameters for each report to quantify your benefits and support ROI calculations.