Nuance's software, called Dragon Medical, lets doctors dictate information into an EHR, and make corrections verbally. The software already works "out-of-the-box" with most Window-based EHRs, but Nuance is offering a program to optimize performance.

For US$10,000, EHR vendors can spend a half-day testing their product with Nuance engineers to improve performance for clinicians. The testing helps, "dictation and correction support within an EHR, copy & paste support, and formatting support," Keith Belton, the director of product marketing at Nuance Communications told The Industry Standard.

More than 100,000 physicians already use Dragon Medical to dictate information about patient visits, and save money on speech transcription costs, .

President Barack Obama has all of America's health records by 2014. The stimulus bill, signed in February, allocated about . Hoping to cash in, many companies, including , , and have become players in the EHR space.

At this time, of hospitals nationwide are using electronic health records.