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News Release From Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance’s Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions Division Recognizes Strategic Partners at Value-Added Reseller Healthcare Summit
Dragon Medical Certified Resellers Honored at First Annual Event
BURLINGTON, Mass., January 25, 2008 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading supplier of speech solutions, is today announcing the continued success of its Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical certified value-added reseller (VAR) partners. Nuance’s Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions division honored its top VARs for strength in their regional territories and high quality of service at its First Annual VAR Healthcare Summit earlier this month at its headquarters in Burlington, Mass.
At the Summit, Nuance presented awards to six of its 180 outstanding VARs. Thirty-six of Nuance’s partners are gold certified, including all of the partners that received awards at the event. In 2007 these Dragon Medical VARs provided a suite of comprehensive services to Dragon customers, including consulting, pre- and post-sales support, customization, training and technical services Recipients of Nuance’s VAR awards include:
- Kaberline Healthcare Informatics
- 2007 Strategic Partner of the Year, Central (Saint Louis, Missouri)
- Next Generation Technologies, Inc.
- 2007 Strategic Partner of the Year, West (Lynnwood, Washington)
- Peter Cohen Associates
- 2007 Strategic Partner of the Year, Northeast (Natick, Massachusetts)
- Computers Made Effective, Inc.
- 2007 Strategic Partner of the Year, South (Tampa, Florida)
- Assistive Technologies
- 2007 Top Revenue Partner of the Year (Loves Park, Illinois)
- 1450, Inc.
- 2007 Value-Added Distributor of the Year (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida)
“The ongoing commitment to shared success and partnership between Dragon Medical certified VARs and the Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions division is critical to further drive speech recognition adoption across the healthcare market.... We have made it a top priority as a company to support Dragon Medical and will continue to provide our customers with the high-quality training, support and value that they have come to expect from working with us.”
–Dr. Bill Wade, vice president, Kaberline Healthcare Informatics.
Nuance’s Dragon Medical is the most widely used and successful speech recognition solution in the history of the industry. It is used by more than 50,000 clinicians in the U.S. today to document care directly in an electronic medical record (EMR), in Microsoft Word, or in other clinical software. Benefits include:
- Reduced transcription costs
- Improved report turnaround time
- Improved quality of patient documentation
- Increased overall adoption rates of clinical information systems
“It’s a true testament to our organization that the industry’s top healthcare technology providers offer our solutions, such as Dragon Medical, to their esteemed customers.... Together with our value-added reseller partners, we continue to provide customers with state-of-the-art speech recognition solutions while helping healthcare provider organizations reduce costs, increase overall workflow and improve patient care and safety.”
–Edward Rucinski, senior vice president sales, Nuance’s Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions.
Dragon Medical certified VARs sell both packaged software and licenses to customer organizations. VAR partnerships have accelerated Dragon license sales, increasing sales in 2007 by 50 percent from the previous year.
Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions Division
Nuance’s Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions Division provides comprehensive dictation and transcription solutions and services that improve the way patient data is captured, processed and used changing the way people process and work with medical information. Through the integration of speech recognition and natural language processing within existing health information management workflow, Nuance’s Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions offerings help healthcare organizations save money and improve patient care by improving the turn around time, accuracy and usability of their medical documentation.
Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance (Nasdaq: NUAN) is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications and professional services.
Nuance, the Nuance logo and Dragon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other company names or product names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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