The program was developed to facilitate collaboration between Nuance and EHR vendors by optimizing clinician use of EHRs through the introduction a new standard of speech recognition interoperability.
To become a Dragon Medical Certified EHR, eClinicalWorks and McKesson completed testing that focused on how a provider would use Dragon Medical within the physician documentation portion of a given application, according to the report.
The main goal of the Dragon Medical EHR Certification Program is to optimize the EHR experience of clinicians by testing core competencies within each EHR, including:
- Dictation in the EHR
- Correction in the EHR
- Audio preservation
- Navigation throughout text
- Native Dragon Medical edit box support
- Copy and paste support
- Formatting support
- Input control
- Hidden dictation mode support
Part of the Dragon Medical EHR certification process also entails the completion of a joint evaluation procedure, according to the release. In this process, eClinicalWorks and McKesson worked with Nuance engineers and product teams to optimize Dragon Medical software’s interoperability with each company’s EHR.
Read the release about the Dragon Medical Certified EHR Program.