BURLINGTON, Mass., March 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuance®
Communications, Inc. announced an expansion of its next-generation
ambient AI capabilities for diagnostic imaging. The expanded
capabilities will include enhanced AI-powered reporting features in
the Nuance PowerScribe platform that will empower radiologists to
create highly accurate reports in less time and with more
clinically valuable structured data.
The need for innovation in radiology interpretation and
reporting is pressing, with more than one-third of imaging
professionals reporting burnout. In some states, the population of
patients in need of imaging services outpaces available
radiologists by more than 25 percent, according to U.S. Census
Data. This is driving a greater supply and demand imbalance in the
radiology workforce.
As an industry leader and pioneer in speech and language
understanding for over 20 years, Nuance is tackling this challenge
head-on. With the Nuance PowerScribe platform, radiologists
can focus on image interpretation instead of the mechanics of
report creation. In Nuance PowerScribe One today, Ambient Mode
uses advanced AI running in the Microsoft Azure cloud to enable
radiologists to dictate in a completely free-form, unstructured,
and narrative manner while in the background ambient AI
technologies create a fully structured report. At the same time,
ambient AI analyzes the report text while it is dictated looking
for common errors, and whether clinical guidelines apply, to help
the radiologist create higher quality reports. Later this year,
ambient AI capabilities will also include advanced Auto Impression
functionality that will automatically turn report findings into
generated impression sections and follow-up recommendations,
creating even more efficiencies for radiologists.
PowerScribe Ambient Mode uses the same breakthrough deep
learning technology that powers the Nuance® Dragon® Ambient
eXperience™ (DAX™), a solution that captures multi-party patient
encounters and automatically creates clinical documentation thereby
reducing administrative burdens on clinicians while simultaneously
improving patient experience. PowerScribe Ambient Mode delivers a
high degree of AI accuracy because of Nuance's decades of radiology
reporting experience and its highly secure and trusted stewardship
of radiology data spanning thousands of radiologists'
interpretation styles, enabling high performance and native
integration into the PowerScribe workflow.
"Nuance's PowerScribe reporting solution has been the trusted
diagnostic reporting solution for over 80% of all radiologists
because of the AI-powered capabilities and benefits it delivers on
a daily basis in a very demanding clinical environment," said
Peter Durlach, Chief Strategy
Officer at Nuance Communications. "With Ambient Mode, Nuance is
bringing the next level of advanced AI to radiology reporting so
that radiologists can gain greater efficiencies from auto
structuring and auto impression functionality."
"Ensuring our radiologists have the best and most efficient
diagnostic reporting system is critical to our organization's
success and vital to patient care," said Keith J. Dreyer, DO, PhD, Chief Data Science
Officer, and Vice Chairman of Radiology at Mass General Brigham.
"We have relied on PowerScribe for almost two decades because of
the consistent, high-level support, performance, and AI
capabilities that we have received from Nuance, and we are
extremely excited to leverage the full array of ambient
functionality, including auto impression generation, so we can
accelerate care delivery and help combat radiologist burnout."
To learn more about Nuance diagnostics solutions, including
next-generation ambient capabilities for diagnostics, click
here.
About Nuance Communications
Nuance Communications is a technology pioneer with market
leadership in conversational AI and ambient intelligence. A
full-service partner trusted by 77 percent of U.S. hospitals and 85
percent of the Fortune 100 companies worldwide, Nuance creates
intuitive solutions that amplify people's ability to help others.
Nuance is a Microsoft company.
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Nuance Communications
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E-mail: caitlyn.keating@nuance.com
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