Relationship to provide more streamlined, cost-effective approach to patient data entry
Horsham, Pa. – March 27, 2012 – NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, today announced a reseller agreement with Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading provider of speech-driven clinical documentation, clinical language understanding and analytics solutions to more than 450,000 physicians and 10,000 healthcare institutions worldwide.
Under the agreement, NextGen Healthcare will resell Nuance’s Dragon Medical speech recognition software to its NextGen® Ambulatory EHR clients, enabling physicians and administrators to navigate, dictate and correct medical documents by voice, directly within the electronic health record (EHR). Dragon Medical software is currently used by more than 180,000 clinicians worldwide. By incorporating the software as part of the NextGen Ambulatory EHR workflow, healthcare organizations can:
- Improve physicians’ clinical documentation productivity;
- Minimize time and costs associated medical transcription;
- Drive appropriate levels of reimbursement through more complete documentation;
- Increase patient engagement by enabling providers to capture data at a discrete level; and,
- Enhance the quality of clinical notes to facilitate better care coordination.
“Dragon Medical provides physicians and their staff the freedom to incorporate high-value, customized narratives as part of patients’ medical records,” said Janet Dillione, executive vice president and general manager of Nuance Healthcare. “Together, advanced voice and language understanding solutions make it possible to capture the complete patient story and enable unprecedented access and interaction with the data that has been captured. We believe this collaboration with EHR leader NextGen Healthcare will bring far-reaching benefits to its diverse client base.”
“With healthcare reform initiatives such as Meaningful Use and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) continually emerging and evolving, the ability to collect patient data in a discrete manner is perhaps now more important than ever,” noted Scott Decker, president of NextGen Healthcare. “The comprehensive reporting capabilities offered by NextGen Ambulatory EHR are best utilized when discrete data is not only accessible but also stored in the proper format. Leveraging Nuance technology will provide our clients the flexibility needed to capture patient data and effectively populate it through our powerful reporting engine. We believe that Dragon Medical will complement and enhance the breadth and depth of our EHR capability.”
About Nuance Healthcare
Nuance Healthcare, a division of Nuance Communications, is the market leader in providing clinical understanding solutions that accurately capture and transform the patient story into meaningful, actionable information. Thousands of hospitals, providers and payers worldwide trust Nuance voice-enabled clinical documentation and analytics solutions to facilitate smarter, more efficient decisions across the healthcare enterprise. These solutions are proven to increase clinician satisfaction and HIT adoption, supporting organizations to achieve Meaningful Use of EHR systems and transform to the accountable care model. Recognized as “Best-in-KLAS” 2004-2011 for Voice Recognition we invite you to learn more, http://www.nuance.com/for-healthcare/index.htm.
About NextGen Healthcare
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc., provides integrated clinical, financial and connectivity solutions for ambulatory, inpatient and dental provider organizations. For more information, please visit www.nextgen.com and www.qsii.com. Follow NextGen Healthcare on Twitter at www.twitter.com/nextgen or Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/NextGenHealthcare
