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MHS - Military Health Systems


Overview

A strong healthcare system relies on excellent clinical documentation and communication. Nuance Healthcare provides a broad range of clinical documentation and communication solutions to streamline processes and reduce costs, replacing systems like traditional transcription, handwriting or typing with advanced speech recognition technologies and customized workflows to deliver significant results for the MHS.

Nuance Healthcare is the market leader in speech-driven clinical documentation and communication solutions. Worldwide, more than 10,000 healthcare organizations and more than 450,000 clinicians have chosen Nuance Healthcare solutions to document patient care, communicate test results and help order appropriate imaging exams. The MHS partners are striving to offer their clinicians a choice of leadership strategies and solutions to document care and communicate results.

Real Time Speech Recognition in the EHR and Voice Navigation for the EHR

  • Dragon® Medical — allows clinicians to dictate progress notes, prescribe medication and access results directly in AHLTA, AHLTA-T, Essentris, SAMS, and other applications. Dragon Medical is a proven solution for the MHS; over 6,500 providers in the MHS are using Dragon Medical, the Nuance Healthcare speech recognition solution for Dragon Medical complements the structured data-entry capabilities of AHLTA by allowing providers to add their own words to a note.
  • Critical Test Result Management — ensures that time- and care- critical imaging and laboratory test results from MHS partners get to the right clinicians using the right delivery approach, and meet compliance standards and patient safety guidelines. Read more about Veriphy.
  • Closed Loop Radiology Workflow Solutions — provides a complete end-to-end, closed-loop solution for the ordering clinician, the radiologist and decision support analysts, covering appropriate exam ordering, pre-certification, reporting and communication. Read more about our closed loop radiology workflow solutions.
  • Transcription Platforms — offers a competitive edge to healthcare organizations with Nuance Healthcare's market-leading computer aided medical transcription (CAMT) platforms, transcription workflow can be transformed into a competitive advantage for your healthcare enterprise by integrating with your EMR to deliver significant time and cost savings.

Today, more than 10,000 healthcare providers in all of the military services are using Dragon Medical, a speech recognition solution that allows them to dictate their notes directly into AHLTA, AHLTA-T, Essentris, SAMS, and other applications. Dragon Medical complements the structured data-entry capabilities of AHLTA by allowing providers to add their own words to a note. When you select the pages below, you'll learn the best practices for becoming even more productive with Dragon Medical.

This information center is supported in part by the US Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technologies Research Center (TATRC).

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Getting Started

Hints on Getting Started Before Your Training.  Here you will learn how to use the correct specialty vocabulary, run tutorials and understand the most commonly used commands.

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Tips and Tricks

  • Recording of Dragon Medical Webinar for AHLTA Users
  • Recommendations for training Dragon Medical users
  • Hints for getting started with Dragon Medical before your formal training
  • Lists of military terms that you can import into your vocabulary
  • and more...

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Video Demonstrations

View recorded demonstration of Dragon NaturallySpeaking with AHLTA, Medical Board Template, Navy Hospital Pensacola AIM Form and more...

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User Training

Most end users need some training in order to realize the full potential of Dragon Medical. The most valuable training is done in person and one-on-one, so that you can learn to use Dragon Medical while doing actual work in your own office.

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