San Diego Medical Center Selects Nuance’s Dragon Medical

Nuance Communications today announced that University of California, San Diego Medical Center selected Dragon Medical for use at multiple facilities to expand physicians’ options for documenting electronic health records (EHRs) to include real-time speech recognition.

With Dragon Medical, physicians can document patient encounters via their voice for editing in real-time, without the need for medical transcription or reliance on typing and mouse navigation to complete an EHR.
 
“We selected Dragon Medical as a tool for our physicians as they work within our EHR system. At UCSD Medical Center, speech recognition has become an important component of our EHR implementation, allowing doctors to accurately capture the patient encounter information,” said Ed Babakanian, CIO at the medical center. “Speech recognition has helped physicians get information online faster, which has shown benefits from a productivity perspective and in terms of communication timeliness, which in turn has also helped improve the delivery and quality of patient care.”
 
UCSD Medical Center has been utilizing Dragon Medical for three years. Today, approximately 170 physicians are utilizing Nuance’s speech recognition technology and many more are in the process of being trained to use the software. By utilizing Dragon Medical alongside its Epic EHR system, UCSD Medical Center has seen a noticeable improvement in provider efficiency, and with reduced reliance on medical transcription, UCSD expects significant, ongoing cost savings.