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Solutions
Description
Compatibility Level
Clients
Use cases
EHR integrations
Client types
Differentiators
Keywords
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Company details

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Solutions

Description

Product Description:

Nuance Patient Engagement Solutions combine decades of healthcare expertise with award‑winning omnichannel engagement technology that powers over 31 billion customer interactions annually. A single solution based on market‑leading Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and proven AI brings world‑class consumer engagement to healthcare, modernizing interactions across the patient journey.

About Nuance Communications:
Nuance provides a more natural and insightful approach to clinical documentation, freeing clinicians to spend more time caring for their patients. Nuance healthcare solutions capture and communicate more than 300 million patient stories each year helping more than 500,000 clinicians in 10,000 healthcare organizations globally. Nuance’s award-winning clinical speech recognition, medical transcription, CDI, coding, quality and diagnostic imaging solutions provide a more complete and accurate view of patient care, which drives meaningful clinical and financial outcomes.
Product Description:

Incubated at Providence, Praia Health orchestrates digital interactions and disconnected point solutions, creating a cohesive experience for consumers spanning both clinical and nonclinical interactions that influence health outcomes. These experiences can be accessed through a single set of account credentials tied to an authenticated user’s personalized profile. Following in the footsteps of other consumer-driven industries, Praia unlocks digital transformation for health systems by managing the heavy lifting and custom integrations required for a frictionless consumer experience. Praia provides health systems with a platform to connect disparate digital programs, services, and tools, allowing them to deliver a more personalized experience, increase conversion rates, and drive system loyalty.

About Praia Health:

Praia Health is the patient experience orchestration platform for health systems. We help health systems attract, engage, and retain patients by supercharging their portals and digital tools with seamless, personalized journeys in one platform. The result is higher retention, lower costs, and measurable ROI.

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Clients

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Use Cases

Description:

Elevate your approach to patient engagement

Achieve operational efficiencies, delight patients, and ease care management throughout the patient journey with an expanding portfolio of existing applications—or custom‑build your own. Work towards a comprehensive engagement strategy by continually adding automation where it makes sense. Our single solution can easily expand to additional patient journey use cases and channels.

NLU‑powered Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA)

Deliver modern convenience when Nuance IVA accepts patient input in natural language, understands intent, and successfully resolves requests. Patients interact within natural conversations on phone lines, online chat, or messaging applications. System integration delivers access to information that drives effective self‑service capabilities, improving the patient experience.

Voice IVA routing

Surpass the capabilities of basic Interactive Voice Response (IVR), with Nuance IVA Routing on voice channels. Callers verbalize their needs—faster and easier than choosing from a laundry list of recited options—and are routed to mapped destinations like phone lines, self‑service options, or live agents. Patients get what they need while organizations decrease the number of calls handled by live agents.

Appointment Management

Automate the delivery of voice, email, and SMS appointment reminders based on real‑time data and extend the convenience of interactive confirming, cancelling, and rescheduling on the channel of contact. Alleviate care team manual work and speed service when patients modify or schedule appointments within an automated, conversational dialogue on voice and digital channels.

Patient Support

Empower patients to self‑serve telehealth visit preparation and patient portal account access or navigation issues. NLU‑powered conversational AI offers 24x7x365 bilingual assistance, with the option to transfer to a live agent.

Intelligent outreach

Strengthen the patient‑physician relationship and encourage good health with personalized outreach. From care gap reminders to broadcast messages to preventative screening notifications, thoughtful communication promotes wellness, protects revenue, and boosts satisfaction.

Patient FAQs

Extend the convenience of 24x7x365 access to answers to questions about patient care, appointments, billing, insurance, amenities, and services. Patients contact their provider on their channel of choice, interact conversationally, and receive requested information.

Rx management

Allow patients to self‑serve prescription refill requests that trigger automatic in‑workflow approval requests for physicians and refill status notifications for patients.

Biometric authentication

Protect patient data with biometric authentication through Nuance Gatekeeper and replace outdated, vulnerable authentication methods.

Do it yourself, but not alone

Harness the power of best‑in‑class Conversational AI services and APIs with Nuance Mix tooling platform and design a natural, conversational patient engagement experience. Use IVR and NLU, Text to Speech (TTS), and Speech to Text (STT) to power interactive dialogs. Once an application exists, quick adjustments allow deployment in multiple languages across multiple channels. Patients engage in natural conversations—no matter how they get in touch.

Pediatric use cases:

None provided

Users:
  • University of Michigan Health - West
Description:

With over 40 use cases launched or in development, Praia strives to create specific ways consumers needs are met by orchestrating how health is organized specific to people needs. Our categories include:

  • Care Delivery
  • Population Health
  • Access & Navigation
  • Patient Experience
  • Marketing
  • Clinical Trials & Research
  • Health Plan
  • Care at Home
  • Wellness
  • Revenue Cycle
  • New Business Offerings (e.g. Concierge)

Pediatric use cases:

None provided

Users:

Health consumers, patients

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, Ancillary EMR

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, NextGen, athena, GE, eClinicalWorks

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop

Integrations:

Patient portal

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Recommended, but not required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner

Hardware Compatibility:

Not applicable

Client Types

Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

None provided

Differentiators vs Competitors:

None provided

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:
  • Patient portals focus only on EMR-based interactions, while over 50% of a consumer’s journey happens outside the EMR. Praia connects and activates services across and beyond the EMR, giving consumers one seamless digital entry point to everything your health system offers.
  • Patient portals don’t leverage non-clinical data (like interests, preferences, behavior, social needs) to tailor the consumer experience. Praia’s consumer profile and orchestration layer use clinical and non-clinical data to personalize content, offers, and services in real time for a true “n of 1” experience.
  • Patient portals make it costly and complex to integrate 3rd-party tools like virtual visits, bill pay, or community resources. Praia offers a plug-and-play integration framework that reduces IT lift, accelerates deployment/use cases, minimizes costs, and unifies third-party tools into the experience.
  • Patient portals do not allow health systems to customize their portal instance beyond the front-end user experience. All portal users see the same static experience — regardless of who they are or what they need. Praia delivers dynamic, personalized experiences based on user identity, behavior, and context, so the right people see the right content, services, and calls to action at the right time.
  • Patient portals control identity and do not allow for federated ID across systems or digital touchpoints. Praia acts as the identity layer across your digital ecosystem, giving you control over login, data federation, and cross-channel personalization — while still integrating seamlessly with the EMR.
  • Patient portals ds not easily share data or functionality with other digital platforms. Praia acts as a unifying layer across the digital front door, coordinating identity, data, and design across EMR and non-EMR systems for a seamless experience.
  • Patient portals are built for access, not activation. They don’t drive transactions, loyalty, or strategic growth. Praia transforms your digital front door into a strategic growth channel, increasing conversion, retention, and revenue by orchestrating the right experiences at the right time.
Differentiators vs Competitors:
  • The first and only consumer experience platform built within a health system and proven with millions of patients in a short 3 years.
  • The only platform that gives a full view of how a consumer interacts with a health system before, during, and in between visits. (We have the patents and data to prove it.)
  • The most frictionless consumer experience in healthcare, creating greater value across all of your patient facing tools.
  • The most cost effective and efficient orchestration platform to deploy new use cases and point solutions.

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Providence Case Study

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