Clinical Information Systems

Nuance OmniPage Ultimate has Healthcare Implications

May 3, 2013     Joe Marion
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I have been a loyal user of Nuance products for many years in support of my own business operations, including the Dragon speech recognition applications, as well as the OmniPage OCR, PDF Converter, and PaperPort applications for document management. As a loyal user, Nuance has occasionally included me in several “beta” evaluations of their software, including recently OmniPage Ultimate. Having used this application over the past several weeks, there are several new features that I believe have interesting consequences for healthcare.

Life on the Other Side (as a Patient)

April 30, 2013     Joe Marion
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A week ago while on vacation in Florida I experienced another episode of vertigo. For those of you who have never experienced vertigo, you are fortunate! Long story short I ended up in the ER, and then admitted to the hospital. The stay was necessary from the physician's perspective, as they did a CT scan while in the ER, with inconclusive findings, which again in their mind necessitated admission and an MRI/MRA scan (which of course couldn't be scheduled until the next day!).