Nuance Communications Inc. : EZ DERM Electronic Health Record App Now Powered by

BURLINGTON, Mass., - March 20, 2012 - Today, Nuance Communications, Inc., and EZ DERM, LLC™ announce that the EZ DERM electronic health record (EHR) iPad app is now powered by the Nuance Healthcare 360 | Development Platform. The EZ DERM EHR joins a growing list of healthcare apps that incorporate Nuance's cloud-based, medical speech recognition technology to allow physicians to use their voice for app interaction and navigation, as well as for clinical documentation while on-the-go.

According to a recent survey from the American Academy of Dermatology, only 33.7 percent of dermatologists are satisfied with their current EHR. The EZ DERM iPad app, which is being launched this week at the 70th Annual American Academy of Dermatology conference, aims to address current frustrations with EHR technology already on the market. EZ DERM is the only dermatology-specific EHR that is solely based on the iPad® mobile platform and employs patent-pending 3D anatomical maps of the human body, Nuance speech recognition, and clinical decision-support.

"As a dermatologist, I have first-hand insight into the problems plaguing today's EHR platforms, most of which are based on the cumbersome desktop or laptop platforms that rely on keyboard data entry. Allowing dermatologists, who can see up to a hundred patients a day, a touch-based and speech-driven technology was a logical solution for busy dermatology practices," said Srdjan Prodanovich, MD, FAAD and founder of EZ DERM, LLC. "The EZ DERM app was specifically designed to improve care and help dermatologists manage patients in an intuitive, efficient and mobile way. Leveraging the 360 | Development Platform was a no-brainer for us. Nuance is the leader in medical speech recognition and offers a proven benefit for our app that not only differentiates it, but makes it highly usable."

With Nuance Healthcare-powered mobile apps, clinicians can use their voice for app interaction and navigation, as well as for mobile clinical documentation, leading to the following benefits:

• Increased productivity as a result of speaking vs. typing and, in turn, improved physician satisfaction with mobile device use;
• Cost savings from eliminating traditional documentation processes involving paper, medical transcription support and caregiver time; and
• Highly-detailed patient notes that capture unique details from the patient encounter at the point-of-care.

"There's broad physician demand for health IT applications, specifically EHRs, to be more user-friendly and intuitive," said Jonathon Dreyer, Nuance Healthcare mobile solutions. "We've designed the 360 | Development Platform with the industry's ease-of-use demand in mind, and to provide developers with an easy to implement tool that will differentiate and enhance their m-Health applications. As the mobile clinician becomes more commonplace, we expect continued integration of our speech-enabled development platform as a means to drive an array of voice-driven healthcare apps aimed at simplifying the mobile experience."

The Nuance Healthcare 360 | Development Platform supports multiple devices and operating systems. By providing all CPU intensive voice and language processing in the cloud, this platform enables speech and language understanding technologies to be integrated as part of browser-based applications, mobile applications and thin-client desktop solutions.

To learn more about the EZ DERM app powered by Nuance Healthcare's medical speech recognition and to view a video demo, please visit: www.ezderm.com.

EZ DERM, LLC™ is an international technology company that consists of physicians, software engineers, mathematicians, web developers, graphic designers, 3D designers and 3D animators, all focused on creating world-class mobile solutions for the field of medicine. The company's main focus is to improve the quality of patient care by empowering physicians with state-of-the-art mobile electronic health record (EHR) technology. The EZ DERM iPad app enables physicians and their staff to intuitively document patient encounters, access anatomically accurate three-dimensional body maps, and leverage clinical decision-support, iPad®-based telephony, video-conferencing, text messaging and speech recognition capabilities in the palm of their hand. For more information on EZ DERM visit: www.ezderm.com

Nuance Healthcare

Nuance Healthcare, a division of Nuance Communications, is the market leader in providing clinical understanding solutions that accurately capture and transform the patient story into meaningful, actionable information. Thousands of hospitals, providers and payers worldwide trust Nuance voice-enabled clinical documentation and analytics solutions to facilitate smarter, more efficient decisions across the healthcare enterprise. These solutions are proven to increase clinician satisfaction and HIT adoption, supporting organizations to achieve Meaningful Use of EHR systems and transform to the accountable care model. Recognized as "Best-in-KLAS" 2004-2011 for Voice Recognition we invite you to learn more, http://www.nuance.com/for-healthcare/index.htm.

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