PowerScribe achieves millennial placement

Speech recognition developer Nuance Communications reported that it has marked the 1,000th deployment of its Dictaphone PowerScribe application for radiology. The Yale-New Haven Hospital will be installing the system in its multisite radiology division.

PowerScribe will be used by the radiological staff of 118 to generate the more than 1,000 reports processed each day across Yale-New Haven Hospital. The system will be integrated with Yale-New Haven’s GE Healthcare RIS and Fujifilm Medical Systems PACS, according to the Burlington, Mass.-based Nuance.

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