Drive clinical documentation integrity while physicians focus on patient care
Inpatient Guidance for Dragon Medical Advisor is a workflow‑integrated Computer‑Assisted Physician Documentation (CAPD) solution accessible through Dragon Medical One. It analyzes relevant notes for a comprehensive view of patient acuity and helps identify undocumented and unspecified diagnoses and comorbidities to improve CC/MCC capture.
Tell the full patient story
Nuance’s AI‑driven Inpatient Guidance is a computer‑assisted solution that helps physicians with their documentation. It analyzes all relevant patient documents in real‑time to provide a comprehensive view of patient acuity—and identify undocumented and unspecified diagnoses.

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Learn how to harness artificial intelligence to tell the full patient story with complete and accurate documentation.
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Learn how Nuance’s AI‑driven Inpatient Guidance provides physicians real‑time guidance at the point of care for a comprehensive view of patient acuity.
Explore how to leverage AI to provide a comprehensive view of patient acuity and identify undocumented and unspecified diagnoses.
Explore how improving the accuracy and quality of diagnosis capture requires a comprehensive view of all patient documentation.
Explore how to improve decision making and focus on outcomes with Inpatient Guidance analytics.
Benefits
Experience makes the difference
Leverage a comprehensive and continuously expanding knowledge base in real-time to capture comorbidities, major complications, and other relevant data in the patient record.
Achieve higher physician productivity and satisfaction, improved care quality, and outcomes with more appropriate reimbursement.
Reduce retrospective queries from Clinical Documentation Specialists (CDS) and Coders.
Features
Access to features that matter most
Allows providers to stay focused on the current note or patient encounter while reviewing relevant clinical findings.
Combines with advanced analytics to help pinpoint the most important clinical documentation gaps by allowing clinicians to update problems in the EHR documentation workflow.
Provides in‑workflow display and transparency for sources of clinical findings that support clarifications and potentially missed diagnoses and reduces time spent navigating through the patient record by highlighting supporting evidence.
Offers insight into the most common clarifications, response, and agree rates, observed vs. expected (O/E) Length of Stay (LOS), top Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs) with unfavorable LOS O/E ratio, Case Mix Index (CMI), risk of mortality (ROM), severity of illness (SOI) and more.
Professional services
Consultative advice to design your program
Each organization is unique, and any technology, content or analytics should match program goals and readiness—while laying a foundation for growth. Our team of experts offer all the support you need to plan, deploy, adopt and help you achieve clinical documentation excellence.
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To support your journey to clinical documentation excellence, Nuance solutions work together to connect and foster collaboration.
Nuance has collaborated with leading healthcare IT providers and vendors, to integrate acute care note clarification and clinical fact extraction directly into the physician documentation workflow for a truly seamless experience.
Nuance Dragon Medical Advisor engages physicians at the point of care with evidence‑based advice that fits naturally into existing physician workflows through Dragon Medical One.
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