Microsoft, Nuance Partner on ambient clinical intelligence for physicians

Conversational AI specialist Nuance and software giant Microsoft are partnering to help reduce the amount of administrative work associated with documenting patient care. The agreement will see both companies accelerate the delivery of ambient clinical intelligence technologies, which can help improve productivity by streamlining administrative tasks. ACI is built on Nuance's Dragon Medical One cloud platform and speech recognition and natural language understanding technology, enhanced by the company's domain expertise and healthcare optimized conversational AI solutions already in use around the world. The partnership between Microsoft and Nuance combines Nuance's expertise in conversational AI, clinical documentation and decision-support solutions for healthcare with Microsoft's strengths in delivering cloud and AI solutions. The two companies will also work closely in sync with their electronic health record partners to improve the clinician experience.