Dillione Lands at Nuance

Janet Dillione, who recently resigned as CEO at Siemens Health Services, has been named executive vice president and general manager of the health care business unit of Nuance Communications, a vendor of speech recognition software for multiple industries.

Dillione will report to Paul Ricci, chair and CEO at Burlington, Mass.-based Nuance. John Shagoury and Jeanne McCann, co-presidents of the health care unit, will stay with the company and transition to other leadership roles after a transition period.

In addition to the health care market, Nuance serves the automotive, education, financial, government and legal sectors. More information is available at nuance.com.

--Joseph Goedert