Nuance Takes Page from Healthcare Clients in Petya Outage Aftermath

On June 27th the Petya Malware (or NotPetya or ExPteya) struck Nuance Communications (NASDAQ: NUAN). For days the company’s eScription speech-recognition platform were unavailable, forcing thousands of healthcare clients to find alternatives for their medical transcription. During the crisis and in the weeks that followed, Nuance borrowed a page from their healthcare clients: not offering false hope and deconstructing the incident to learn from it. At the recent CHIME Fall Forum in San Antonio Texas, I had the opportunity to sit down with Brenda Hodge, Chief Marketing Officer – Healthcare and Ed Rucinski, Senior Vice President of World Wide Healthcare Sales of Nuance to talk about the Petya outage and where the company is headed. “The challenge we faced with Petya brought us all together as a company,” explained Ed. “When our systems went offline, the entire organization rallied together. We had engineers and support staff who slept at the office on couches and cots. We had developers who went with less than 2hrs of sleep for 4 days straight because they wanted to help clients and bring our systems back online as quickly as possible. We became a nameless and rank-less organization working towards a common goal.” As the outage went from minutes to hours to days, Nuance resisted the temptation to offer false hope to its clients. Instead, the company opted to be truthful and transparent. Nuance sent emails and directly called clients to let them know they had suf...
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