Nuance Communications, Inc., a Microsoft company, today announced Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX™) Express, a workflow-integrated, fully automated clinical documentation application that is the first to combine proven conversational and ambient AI with the latest and most powerful model of OpenAI combined. GPT-4. DAX Express extends Dragon Medical’s proven portfolio of solutions and builds on the market-leading DAX environment solution launched in 2020. DAX Express is the next milestone in Nuance’s long-standing mission to reduce administrative burdens and empower physicians to spend more time caring for patients and less time on paperwork. DAX Express brings world-class AI to more than 550,000 Dragon Medical users, enhanced by GPT-4 and powered by power of Microsoft Azure.
Building on the rapid success of DAX, which is currently deployed in hundreds of healthcare systems, DAX Express represents the next step in delivering AI technology that provides an immediate and easily accessible entry point for healthcare organizations to bring a new generation of AI into to introduce on a large scale. Powered applications and leverage their existing investments in proven Nuance solutions. Using a unique combination of conversational, ambient, and generative AI, DAX Express automatically and securely creates draft clinical notes in seconds for immediate clinical review and completion after each patient visits in the exam room or via telemedicine patient calls. Physicians will benefit from the seamless capabilities of Dragon Medical One, DAX, and DAX Express, which are tightly integrated with the electronic medical record from pre-visit through post-op, reducing the cognitive burden and increasing the enjoyment of practicing medicine.
“Nuance and Microsoft have joined forces to support the digital transformation of healthcare, and today we mark the next step in the continued development of AI-powered solutions for overburdened care providers,” said Mark Benjamin, CEO of Nuance. “We’ve taken the power and advanced reasoning capabilities of GPT-4 and integrated them into our proven outcome-based AI technologies in a tested and responsible manner. Our cutting-edge blend of conversational, ambient, and generative AI will accelerate the evolution of the care delivery ecosystem beyond what Nuance or Microsoft could have achieved separately – and expand our comprehensive portfolio of solutions that deliver on our vision of improving the quality of care and support improved outcomes for generations to come.”
Nuance is at the forefront of innovation in conversational and environmental AI in healthcare – most notably with Best in KLAS Dragon Medical One and most recently with DAX – and has for years leveraged its expertise in large language models and natural language processing to create sophisticated, reliable AI Delivering solutions around the world. With this new innovation, Nuance’s healthcare portfolio offers customers even more flexibility to automate and enhance their clinical documentation workflows with the accuracy and reliability of Dragon Medical One, the tailored, full-service experience of DAX, and the immediacy and speed of DAX Express. Nuance’s solutions are part of the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare and are powered by Azure’s AI-optimized cloud infrastructure, extending the impact of industry-defining AI to transform healthcare experiences and outcomes.
