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29th  November, 2007

 

AssistMed Deploys VoiceVault Voice Authentication for Controlling
Access to Dictation Systems  

 

 

London and Los Angeles, 29 November 2007 - VoiceVault and AssistMed announced today that VoiceVault Caller Authentication has been implemented to secure access to AssistMed's DictAide dictation and transcription platform.

 

Physicians and other healthcare professionals need only speak a few words to enable a "voiceprint", thereby validating their identity.  This makes the service easier and more convenient to use, while further enhancing the security and the confidentiality of the medical records held on the system.

 

The agreement, which was signed earlier in the year, also saw DictAide successfully migrate onto VoiceVault's IVR and telecommunications infrastructure. This highly scalable platform, already used by financial institutions and government agencies in both the US and Europe, will enable AssistMed to meet the rapid growth in demand for the DictAide system.

 

"DictAide is a powerful and practical example of how speech technologies and, in particular, speech recognition and voice verification can improve the efficiency of a critical workflow," said David Chislett, CEO of VoiceVault. "We're delighted to be working with AssistMed as they have a track record of delivering innovative and ground breaking technologies that are having a real impact on the US healthcare industry. This will be the first time in the world that voice biometrics is used to secure access to clinical records."

 

Leonardo Berezovsky, MD, Chairman and CEO of AssistMed, said: "DictAide has become extremely popular with medical practitioners. We believe the partnership with VoiceVault will enable us to support the rapid growth in service usage, while simultaneously enabling us to make a pioneering move into voice biometrics for the healthcare industry. This powerful technology from VoiceVault will further enhance our physician-friendly, feature-rich clinical documentation solution, which includes advanced speech-recognition to dramatically improve transcription productivity, enabling us to continually reduce the price for our clients. We are also introducing our natural language processing engine, which can extract clinical facts from free text and convert them to codes. With our incorporation of VoiceVault technology, we have effected one more degree of separation of AssistMed from other suppliers of dictation and transcription solutions."

 

"The introduction of voice biometrics into the healthcare market is very encouraging news. Enhanced convenience and security of clinical data management will provide a strong business case for wider deployment in the healthcare industry" said Imran F Khan, Biometrics Research Analyst at Frost and Sullivan.

 

About VoiceVault

VoiceVault is a specialist and leader in the provision of voice-based biometric identity verification solutions and services. With operations in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland, the company has a global customer base of public and private organizations, such as government agencies, banks and insurers.

 

VoiceVault is the only voice verification service certified and accredited to issue Advanced Electronic Signatures (voice digital certificates) and to be ISO 27001 rated.

 

VoiceVault provides a more convenient, practical and secure alternative to PINs, passwords or security tokens. As well as verifying an individual's identity over the phone or the Internet, VoiceVault can be employed across a diverse range of business applications, including procurement, payment authorization and corporate security. Organizations that deploy VoiceVault can deliver enhanced levels of service to their customers, increase security while optimizing identity verification costs.

 

For more information, visit www.voicevault.com .or contact:

Laura Woodward

Weber Shandwick UK

+44 7894 193 887

lwoodward@webershandwick.com

 

 

About AssistMed Inc

Headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, AssistMed provides information-technology solutions for healthcare organizations. The company's products and services facilitate adoption while improving quality, streamlining workflow, and reducing costs. Solutions include: Electronic Health Record, Personal Health Record and Patient Portal, Practice Management System, e-Prescription, Patient Adherence Management, Dictation, Speech Recognition, Transcription Service, Natural Language Processing, PAC's-RIS Systems, Nurse Performance Management, Medication Reconciliation, and Voice Authentication of Verbal Orders.

 

For more information, visit www.AssistMed.com or contact:

Laurie Dressler

AssistMed, Inc.

818-282-0162

laurie.dressler@assistmed.com       

 

 

 

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