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PEABODY, Mass. -- Leading PC Dictation Solution Enables Radiology Department to Save $300,000 a Year and Reduce Document Turnaround Time by 80%

ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT), the global leader of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has selected ScanSoft Dragon NaturallySpeaking(R), the leading speech recognition solution for medical professionals, to automate transcription within its Department of Radiology. Leveraging expertise from ScanSoft value-added reseller LANtek, Hershey Medical Center was able to reduce medical report turnaround times by 80%, improve overall patient care and virtually eliminate the costs of manual transcription.

Using ScanSoft Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the medical center's radiology department can now create reports in real-time simply by dictating into their PCs. Prior to deploying Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the institution employed the services of eight full- and part-time transcriptionists, who took approximately 72 hours to turn around completed medical reports. After several unsuccessful attempts at installing other voice recognition systems on their own, the hospital turned to LANtek to design a deployment of Dragon NaturallySpeaking that would work in conjunction with an existing document workflow solution. Within the first four months, the deployment had paid for itself and had reduced report turnaround time to less than 14 hours - an improvement of more than 80%. In addition, the installation resulted in significant cost savings of nearly $300,000 annually, and the hospital was able to reposition the transcriptionists to more value-added positions within the organization.

"Speech recognition software is truly the future of healthcare technology applications - the benefits of the software are clearly tangible, and the cost and time savings are tremendous," said Timothy Yanchuck, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. "Within a week of our 'go live' date, it became clear that our use of Dragon NaturallySpeaking would be successful, as the departmental faculty saw the resultant benefit to patient care. We are quite pleased with the level of accuracy and ease of use of ScanSoft's product as well as the training and other services provided by LANtek."

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