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Healthcare apps, and contests to develop new ones, are all the rage these days. Now Nuance is entering the game, with a call to developers to create a voice-enabled mobile or web-based healthcare app.
The Burlington, Mass.-based developer of speech recognition tools has launched the 2012 Mobile Clinician Voice Challenge. The contest, running through February 3, offers more than $25,000 in prizes to developers who can meld voice-driven interactions with a mobile app to improve clinicians’ experiences and workflow and lead to better patient care.
“We see tremendous opportunity in healthcare to extend the value of Nuance’s voice technologies beyond traditional clinical documentation and the caregiver workstation to the mobile device,” said Janet Dillione, executive vice president and general manager of Nuance Healthcare, in a press release. “Our hope is that by providing developers with access to Nuance’s cloud-based, medical speech recognition platform, we’ll see advancements for the clinical workflow that we haven’t yet seen or perhaps even thought of before.”
Voice-enabled healthcare apps aren’t entirely new, as Nuance has demonstrated with its Dragon Medical Mobile Recorder and Dragon Medical Mobile Search solutions (and the MedMaster Mobile EHR, powered by Nuance Healthcare). Company officials say more than 100 healthcare providers, including Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Miami, are speech-enabling their mobile healthcare solutions.
Entries will be judged by a panel of five: From Nuance, Dillione and Jonathan Dreyer, senior manager for mobile marketing solutions; Methodist Health System CMIO Steven Zuber; Andres Jiminez, CEO of ImplementHIT; and blogger Mr. HIStalk. They’ll judge each entry on criteria that include innovation, functional implementation, visual appeal and workflow and patient care benefits.
The winner will be announced on February 22 at the HIMSS12 conference and exhibition in Las Vegas.
The challenge is open to developers, vendors and internal development teams at U.S.-based provider and payer organizations, all of which will have access to Nuance’s healthcare development platform. Non-developers can also participate, and by mentioning @NUAN¬_Healthcare and #2012mobilechallenge on Twitter they’ll be eligible to win an iPad 2 and a T-shirt.
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