Dragon Medical 360 Mobile Solutions for Smartphones

Dragon Medical 360 Mobile Solutions

Today there is accelerating demand from clinicians for mobile medical applications that let them easily document, retrieve and communicate patient information at the point-of-care. Demand for these solutions is fueled by industry and federal government mandates to migrate medical information into Electronic Health Records (EHRs) expediently. In fact, research shows.

• By 2012, 81 percent – 84 percent of U.S. physicians will be using a smartphone.
• 94 percent of physicians use smartphones to communicate, manage personal and business workflows, and access medical information
• Apple’s iPad is boosting physician adoption of healthcare mobile technology – 79 percent of physicians would choose Apple’s iPad for professional use; 59 percent already use an iPad for medically related tasks, including receiving and reviewing information updates, as a tool during their standard practice, and to complete paperwork; and 38 percent of physicians plan to own an Apple iPad within the next year.

To help clinicians take full advantage of advances in mobile healthcare technology, Nuance Healthcare’s mobile strategy comprises four directions: medical search, real-time documentation, dictation and transcription workflow and healthcare developer tools.

Our advanced point-of-care solutions deliver real time mobile speech recognition-based capabilities to the smartphone so physicians, nurses and other caregivers can access clinical information efficiently and document patient encounters using their mobile devices. These solutions include:

• Dragon Medical 360 | Mobile Search: Medical search of online content sources for the iPhone
• Dragon Medical 360 | Mobile Recorder: Store and forward dictation and transcription workflow in
  Dragon Medical 360 | eScription, Dictaphone Enterprise Speech System and iChart for the iPhone
• In addition, the 360 | Development Platform: gives developers a variety of powerful tools to speech-enable your existing applications.