BURLINGTON, Mass. August 1, 2007 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading supplier of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH), recently named to the U.S. News & World Report’s Honor Roll as one of the nation’s top hospitals, will fully deploy Dictaphone® PowerScribe® from Nuance across its multi-site radiology division. Yale-New Haven is the 1,000th customer to select PowerScribe for its high-accuracy, real-time speech recognition and clinical communication capabilities to meet the demanding quality and turnaround requirements of the radiology industry.

“It is critical that we have one complete solution that quickly and reliably delivers core radiology reporting, critical results management and diagnostic support technologies,” said Michael Matthews, director of clinical information systems, Department of Diagnostic Radiology Yale-New Haven Hospital. “Our radiological staff needs the control, consistency and flexibility to rapidly complete a report anytime and anywhere.”

Yale-New Haven Hospital selected PowerScribe after a multidisciplinary market evaluation conducted by a committee of YNHH IT staff, physicians and administrators. Key differentiators of PowerScribe include:

PowerScribe’s ability to deliver referring physicians’ and emergency departments’ reports in less than one hour, speeding treatment and improving outcomes
PowerScribe’s free-flow speech recognition capabilities and the solution’s flexibility for customizable voice shortcuts and templates
Remote access functionality, enabling radiologists to dictate reports at any time, from anywhere
PowerScribe’s proven market success and the unmatched reputation of both Nuance and Dictaphone, as well as its superior product support program as compared with other vendors

“With Yale-New Haven, PowerScribe has reached a milestone of 1,000 customers across the radiology industry,” said Peter Durlach, senior vice president, marketing and product strategy, Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions, Nuance. “Our customers are showing dramatic cost savings, speeding report turnaround and customizing the way their radiological reports are created and shared. As our PowerScribe customer base continues to grow, we will rely on customers like Yale-New Haven Hospital to help us further achieve and expand the value of highly accurate speech recognition reporting and clinical communication tools.”

PowerScribe will be used by the radiological staff of 118 to reduce turnaround time for the more than 1,000 reports processed each day across Yale-New Haven Hospital. PowerScribe will integrate with Yale-New Haven’s Radiology Information System (RIS) from GE Medical and Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) software from FUJIFILM Medical Systems to:

Provide direct access to PowerScribe from within the PACS software, while consolidating workstations in the reading room
Share patient and report information between the PACS and the speech recognition applications
Eliminate error-prone manual input of accession/work order numbers
Ensure a dramatic reduction in report turn-around time while maintaining user productivity

For more information on Dictaphone PowerScribe, go to http://www.nuance.com/powerscribe/. For sales and pricing information, please call 1-888-350-4836.

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