Nuance Launches PowerScribe One AI Platform to Transform Radiology Reporting with Advanced Speech-to-Text and Clinical Decision Support

VCBeat (WeChat Official Account: vcbeat) learned from foreign media reports that on November 25, 2018 (U.S. local time), at the 104th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) held in Chicago, Nuance Healthcare launched the PowerScribe One platform. Leveraging Nuance’s advanced natural language understanding capabilities and cloud technology, the platform integrates AI-driven diagnostic and decision support tools, significantly enhancing physicians’ workflow efficiency and accuracy.

“PowerScribe One instantly converts my dictation into relevant, structured results that contain not just my words, but also information about the patient’s clinical status. By incorporating this data into decision support tools, my work becomes more efficient,” said Dr. Tarik Alkasab, Director of IT/Informatics Operations at Massachusetts General Hospital. “PowerScribe One is not merely a voice-enabled text reporting tool; it is evolving into an integrated platform that enables radiologists to access, share, and process critical patient information more quickly and easily.”

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PowerScribe One leverages cloud technology, continuous learning capabilities, and a context-aware language understanding platform to convert unstructured voice-to-text input into structured data. PowerScribe One also integrates AI algorithms into radiologists’ standard workflows, providing robust solutions that enhance work efficiency, diagnostic accuracy and specificity, and generate consistent, evidence-based follow-up recommendations. The integration of structured data, embedded workflow AI, clinical guidance, computer-aided diagnosis, quality checks, and automated reporting tools improves the accuracy, completeness, and value of radiology reports.

PowerScribe One can also share specific, actionable information across the entire care pathway of the healthcare team. It delivers follow-up schedules and other data—previously trapped in unstructured narrative report text—directly to clinical users. Converting unstructured text into structured data paves the way for expanded interoperability and supports a new generation of data-driven applications. Furthermore, it complements the standardization efforts of the ACR, ASNR, RSNA, and other governing bodies regarding common data elements, aiming to improve information exchange and advance radiology practice, research, and performance assessment.

Nuance offers a more natural and intelligent clinical documentation system, enabling clinicians to spend more time caring for patients. Nuance healthcare solutions capture, refine, and communicate over 300 million patient clinical records annually, helping more than 500,000 clinicians across 10,000 healthcare organizations worldwide achieve meaningful clinical and financial outcomes. Nuance’s award-winning solutions in clinical speech recognition, medical transcription, Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI), coding, quality, and medical imaging provide a more complete and accurate view of patient care.