Imprivata Cortext, the secure communications tool, now supports speech recognition via Nuance's Dragon Medical One cloud platform, enabling providers to more efficiently input clinical information, including orders.
The combination of Dragon Medical and Imprivata Cortext includes a speaker-adaptive engine, custom vocabularies, auto-texts and templates, built-in visualization and feedback, voice navigation and correction.
"Physicians spend 43 percent of their workday on documentation and they are increasingly frustrated with how it cuts into their time," said Peter Mahoney, Nuance's general manager of clinical documentation in a statement.
As clinical staff use EHRs at workstations and on mobile devices, it allows doctors to dictate medical terminology at more than 150 words per minute.
"By assuring that complex medical terminology is recognized quickly and accurately, and communicated securely from anywhere, speech to text functionality greatly improves clinician productivity and therefore benefits patients and the entire healthcare enterprise," Imprivata general manager Ed Gaudet added.
The integration comes in the wake of The Joint Commission's recent relaxation of rules around texting orders, provided that clinicians meet certain security requirements.
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