Voice‑enabled virtual assistants for healthcare
AI‑powered virtual assistant capabilities enabled in Dragon Medical One help reduce repetitive tasks and ease access to information through integrated voice skills.
Q&A with VUMC
A comprehensive look at virtual assistant technology
During this Q&A, Dr. Yaa Kumah Crystal of Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) discusses how clinicians will be able to work more productively and focus on engaging with patients using capabilities, such as expanded Premium Voice Skills in Hey Epic!.
Workflow assistant
Integrated voice skills that make workflows work your way
Tackle the tasks—access information and more naturally interact with the EHR and beyond with workflow assistant capabilities through Dragon Medical One.
With built‑in access to third-party information, use your voice to seamlessly search for clinical content through applications like UpToDate(pdf. Open a new window) or medical reference data using MDCalc(pdf. Open a new window).
Take healthcare virtual assistant capabilities to the next level with EHR‑specific voice skills designed to drive even more efficiency.
- Hey Epic!(pdf. Open a new window)
- Cerner Voice Assist
- MEDITECH Expanse Virtual Assistant
Experience the EHR like never before
Nuance’s healthcare virtual assistant solution makes interacting with the EHR—scheduling an appointment, searching a chart, writing an order, just to name a few—as easy as telling it what to do.

Clinicians like Dr. Kumah‑Crystal from Vanderbilt University Medical Center are realizing significant time savings throughout their day using Premium Voice Skills such as Hey Epic!
Mary Varghese Presti
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Dragon Medical
Read more on Vanderbilt and Hey Epic!(Open a new window)
Resources
- Nuance and athenahealth Expand Strategic Collaboration to Reduce Cognitive Burden on Physicians and Care Teams and Improve the Patient Experience(Open a new window)
- Nuance Advances Conversational AI with Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant for Hey Epic! Virtual Assistant in Epic Hyperspace(Open a new window)
- Nuance and Cerner Expand Strategic Voice Collaboration to Include Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant Technology(Open a new window)
- Nuance Brings Virtual Assistant Technology to 300,000 Dragon Medical One Cloud Users(Open a new window)
- MEDITECH Joins Forces with Nuance to Deliver AI‑Powered Virtual Assistants for Healthcare(Open a new window)
- Vanderbilt combines AI and Smart on FHIR in an EHR voice assistant(Open a new window)
- Vanderbilt's AI‑powered EHR voice assistant saves time for caregivers(Open a new window)
- The future of healthcare: CMIOs weigh‑in on the promise of virtual assistants(Open a new window)
- Can Virtual Assistants Eliminate EHR Usability Pain Points?(Open a new window)
- Doctors Studying Ways to Get Virtual Assistants into the Exam Room(Open a new window)
- Nuance brings 1st integrated virtual assistant to Epic EHR(Open a new window)
- Preparing AI‑Powered Virtual Assistants to Improve EHR Usability(Open a new window)
- Epic EHR Now Includes Nuance Voice‑Enabled Clinical Workflows(Open a new window)