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SEATTLE, WA, and PEABODY, Mass., June 19, 2003 - Practice Partner, a leader in electronic medical
records and practice management systems, and ScanSoft,
Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT), a leading supplier of imaging,
speech and language solutions, today announced that
Practice Partner has selected ScanSoft Dragon NaturallySpeaking
for its Practice Partner Patient Records software solution.
Practice Partner Patient Records is a complete electronic
medical record (EMR) system that helps healthcare practices
store and retrieve patient charts electronically, replacing
paper charts. Users are able to launch Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Medical from within Practice Partner Patient Records
to quickly and accurately dictate information into the
electronic medical records system. Dragon NaturallySpeaking
7 Medical has built-in understanding for more than 250,000
words, and includes additional vocabularies covering
terms found in general medicine, pathology, radiology,
cardiology and surgery disciplines. Healthcare organizations
can also easily add their own words to the solution
to create fully customized vocabularies either on individual
workstations or throughout a network. Care providers
can take advantage of voice-activated shortcuts, allowing
a single word or phrase to automatically populate fields
in the Practice Partner system.
Thousands of physicians nationwide utilize Practice
Partner, including Maggie Blackburn, M.D. "The
system offered us a truly paperless solution. The added
advantages of the software allow me to see more patients
each day and still leave the office at 5:00 pm."
For more than 15 years, Practice Partner Patient Records
has helped practices of all sizes to lower costs, boost
revenue and improve quality of care.
"It has always been our philosophy to offer physicians
a choice of methods for entering their notes into Practice
Partner, thus accommodating many different physician
styles," said Practice Partner President Andrew G. Ury. "By
fully integrating ScanSoft Dragon NaturallySpeaking
into Practice Partner, we have made voice recognition
a very practical, accurate and efficient way to record
progress notes.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking converts speech into text
at up to 160 words per minute, automating the input
of patient information and saving thousands of dollars
per doctor, per year, when compared to manual processes.
With accuracy levels as high as 99 percent, the product
is easy-to-use and includes new functionality important
to healthcare organizations of all sizes. Features include
eliminating the dependency on headset microphones through
support for array microphones and Microsoft Pocket PC
devices; the ability to speech-enable electronic medical
records and healthcare information systems (HIS); and
enabling enterprise-wide deployments by supporting network
based administration of voice profiles, custom vocabularies
and software installation.
"We are pleased to partner with Practice Partner, a company
with a successful track record in implementing electronic
medical record systems throughout the industry,"
said Wayne Crandall, senior vice president of sales
and business development for ScanSoft. "The powerful
combination of Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Practice
Partner provides organizations, from solo practitioner
offices to large enterprise multi-site clinics, with
an accessible, easy-to-use way to streamline the collection
and workflow of patient information."
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