Nuance Healthcare Announces 2012 Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge
The healthcare division of Nuance Communications is calling on developers to create voice-enabled mobile or Web-based healthcare apps in its 2012 Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge.
More than $25,000 in prizes will be awarded to developers who demonstrate how voice-driven interactions with a mobile healthcare application can enhance clinicians' experience, improve mobile workflow, and lead to better patient care. The challenge runs through February 3, 2012.
"The 2012 Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge is all about innovation," Janet Dillione, executive vice president and general manager, Nuance Healthcare, said. "We see tremendous opportunity in healthcare to extend the value of Nuance's voice technologies beyond traditional clinical documentation and the caregiver workstation to the mobile device. Our hope is that by providing developers with access to Nuance's cloud-based, medical speech recognition platform, we'll see advancements for the clinical workflow that we haven't yet seen or perhaps even thought of before."
As part of the 2012 Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge, developers will have access to the Nuance Healthcare Development Platform, which supports multiple devices and operating systems and will enable developers to seamlessly and quickly embed Nuance's SpeechAnywhere services into their healthcare applications. This challenge is open to all developers and healthcare independent software vendors, as well as internal development teams at provider and payer organizations living in the United States. Challenge entries will be judged by a panel on a variety of criteria, including innovation, functional implementation, workflow, and patient care benefits, and visual appeal.