Baylor Health Care selects Nuance

The Dallas-based Baylor Health Care System has selected Nuance Communications’ Dictaphone iChart hosted transcription services, as well as the Dictaphone Enterprise Workstation, PowerScribe and EXSpeech for dictation and speech recognition for clinical documentation. 

The healthcare system will implement multiple systems across 12 facilities and integrate them with the existing hospital information systems. Outsourced transcription work will be managed by Dictaphone’s Managed Services, according to Burlington, Mass.-based Nuance.

Baylor employs more than 16,000 staff members and 3,800 physicians throughout its network of hospitals, primary care and specialty care centers, rehabilitation clinics, affiliated ambulatory surgery centers and research centers.

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