Nuance's Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions Division Recognizes Strategic Partners at Value-Added Reseller Healthcare Summit

Business Wire, Jan 28, 2008

Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical Certified Resellers Honored at First Annual Event

BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), a leading supplier of speech solutions, is today announcing the accelerating success of its Dragon[R] NaturallySpeaking[R] Medical certified value-added reseller (VAR) partners. Nuance's Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions division honored its top VARs for strength in their regional territories and high quality of service at its First Annual VAR Healthcare Summit earlier this month at its headquarters in Burlington, Mass.

At the Summit, Nuance presented awards to six of its 180 outstanding VARs. Thirty-six of Nuance's partners are gold certified, including all of the partners that received awards at the event. In 2007, these Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical VARs provided a suite of comprehensive services to Dragon Medical customers, including consulting, pre- and post-sales support, customization, training and technical services. Recipients of Nuance's VAR awards include:

* Kaberline Healthcare Informatics - 2007 Strategic Partner of the Year, Central Region (Saint Louis, Missouri)

* Next Generation Technologies, Inc. - 2007 Strategic Partner of the Year, West Region (Lynnwood, Washington)

* Peter Cohen Associates - 2007 Strategic Partner of the Year, Northeast Region (Natick, Massachusetts)

* Computers Made Effective, Inc. - 2007 Strategic Partner of the Year, South Region (Tampa, Florida)

* Advanced Speech/Assistive Technologies - 2007 Top Revenue Partner of the Year (Loves Park, Illinois)

* 1450, Inc. - 2007 Value-Added Distributor of the Year (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida)

"The ongoing commitment to shared success and partnership between Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical certified VARs and the Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions division is critical to further drive speech recognition adoption across the healthcare market," said Dr. Bill Wade, vice president, Kaberline Healthcare Informatics. "We have made it a top priority as a company to support Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical and will continue to provide our customers with the high-quality training, support and value that they have come to expect from working with us."

Nuance's Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical is the most widely used and successful general-purpose speech-enabled clinical documentation solution in the history of the industry. It is used by more than 50,000 clinicians in the U.S. today to document care directly in an electronic medical record (EMR), in Microsoft Word, or in other clinical software. Benefits include:

* Reduced transcription costs

* Improved report turnaround time

* Improved quality of patient documentation

* Increased overall adoption rates of clinical information systems

"It's a true testament to our organization that the industry's top healthcare information technology providers and resellers offer our solutions, such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking Medical, to their valued customers," said Edward Rucinski, senior vice president sales, Nuance's Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions. "Together with our value-added reseller partners, we continue to provide customers with state-of-the-art speech recognition solutions that help healthcare provider organizations reduce costs, improve clinical workflow and enhance patient care and safety."

For more information on Dragon NaturallySpeaking and its numerous features for maximum efficiency, including seamless integration with the healthcare industry's leading EMR products, visit http://www.nuance.com/dictaphone/naturallyspeaking/.> Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions Division

Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions is a division of Nuance Communications, a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions. Dictaphone provides the most comprehensive family of speech-driven clinical documentation and communications solutions. Dictaphone[R] solutions orchestrate and optimize clinical workflow, reduce transcription expense, raise standards of care via more thorough documentation, deliver results rapidly to meet patient safety guidelines, and heighten clinician satisfaction by making EMR systems easy to use. Dictaphone's solutions accelerate the adoption of clinical information systems, so provider organizations can maximize the return from their IT investments. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com/dictaphone/.> Nuance Communications, Inc.

Nuance (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance's proven applications and professional services. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.

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