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26 Feb 2005
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Phone: 33-23592717/ 23592727
Fax: 033- 23598702
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Medware on the move in India!

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Dear Friends,

Lee Flannery, Vice President of Medware, Inc., announced the
opening of Medware's Medical Transcription operations in India.
Medware has been in the Healthcare industry since 1988 and has
rapidly grown to become one of the largest Medical Transcription
services in the United States. Mr. Flannery is here on a month long
visit to set up the operations on a war footing.

Medware recognizes the importance of incorporating Indian Medical
Transcriptionists into the US dominated MT field while complying
with US HIPAA laws and ensuring exceptional quality they are know
for. Opening a fully owned India operation is the first step
towards this.

Medware is looking to increase the number of both Medical
Transcriptionists and Quality Editors in Bangalore and throughout
India to meet the overwhelming demand from the US for outsourced
work. Medware will also be offering home-based positions for
experienced MTs and Quality Editors. Medware prides itself in
treating their MTs with respect and the American Association of
Medical Transcriptionist recognized this by presenting Medware with
the Employer of the Year award in 2002.

Medware will also be opening their own training center in Bangalore
under the guidance of their own staff, which has over 100 years of
combined experience and is lead by two Past-Presidents and the
current President-Elect of AAMT. This training center will ensure
that Medware maintains the highest levels of quality that they are
known for industry wide.

For more information about Medware, Inc. please contact Lee
Flannery, Vice President at lflannery@....

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MT India ~ www.mtindia.org
"The Community of MT Professionals"

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NEWS AND VIEWS :
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1) Hurdle to healthcare outsourcing?

Indian business process outsourcing (BPO) companies that focus on
medical transcription may find it hard to capture business in the
$800-million US healthcare market. In the absence of data
protection law, US hospitals and insurance companies are reluctant
to provide work to Indian BPOs. Countries like the Philippines and
Luxembourg, on the other hand, have strong legal frameworks for
medical transcription. In addition to the domestic laws, the
healthcare outsourcing service providers need to ensure compliance
with foreign regulations.

Pawan Duggal, a senior Supreme Court counsel and cyber-law expert,
says: "Indian firms need to ensure compliance with HIPPA as
non-compliance on their part can expose the principal client
company to litigation and penalty in the US. Medical transcription
service providers in India, when contracting with US clients, also
need to fulfil the mandatory requirements of the first-ever federal
privacy legislation to protect a patient's medical records."

"US clients are very particular about information leaks. The
company or hospital, being the principal, is liable for all the
acts of its agents, including the vendor providing outsourced
medical transcription services," Duggal said.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050221/asp/business/story_4404898.asp

2) Another one bites the dust?

American jobs -- not just manufacturing jobs, but service jobs and
even white-collar professional jobs -- are flying overseas. With
the rise of the Internet, plus cheap communications, cheap travel
and really cheap bulk shipping, tube-making companies and telephone
service desks and medical transcription services in the United
States are, more and more each day, competing not only against one
another, but against workers in India and China and Mexico.

If nobody wants to buy our khakis, we have to either become more
efficient, or move into industries where we can still compete.
America still has a lock on so many fields, from entertainment to
microchips, and we need to play to our strengths, while constantly
seeking new sectors to exploit before the eagerly adaptive world
catches on. Daring and energy, not retreat and despair, will keep
America economically strong.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/commentary/cst-edt-edits22.html

3) MedQuist Comments on Filing by Philips

MedQuist Inc. comments on the Form 20-F that was filed today with
the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") by Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. ("Philips").
Philips' Form 20-F includes a disclosure relating to MedQuist's
financial performance:

The financial information disclosed in Philips' Form 20-F filing
comes from the internal books and records of MedQuist and, as noted
in the Form 20-F filing, is unaudited. In addition, this financial
information does not reflect the results of MedQuist's billing
practices review and related litigation matters, the outcomes of
which are not yet known and may not be known in the immediately
foreseeable future. Consistent with MedQuist's prior disclosures, ,
the financial information relating to MedQuist contained in the
Philips' Form 20-F filed with the Commission should not be relied
upon.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050222/nytu151_1.html

4) Dictaphone spotlights new pricing, HIPAA capabilities

Speech recognition and digital dictation firm Dictaphone Healthcare
Solutions Group of Stratford, CT, introduced several pricing and
configuration options for its speech recognition technology at the
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
conference.

The ichart Onsite offers the capability to obtain the company's
speech recognition systems in different sizes and models for
installation at customer sites, but with payment occurring on a
monthly per-line usage basis. Monthly rental charges are also
available for certain optional features, Dictaphone said.

The ichart Hosted program offers Dictaphone's existing ichart
Internet-based service, which supplies dictation, transcription,
and speech recognition systems on an application service provider
(ASP) basis. Core pricing is on a per-line basis.

Finally, the ichart Managed Services with Transcription Partners
program strengthens the firm's Preferred Service Provider (PSP)
program to meet the needs of customers who rely extensively on
outsourced transcription services. The program uses several medical
transcription service providers editing on the company's
Internet-based speech recognition platform. A single per-line rate
covers work that is transcribed in traditional fashion, as well as
that which is edited from speech recognition, Dictaphone said.

http://www.auntminnie.com/index.asp?Sec=rca&Sub=himss_2005&Pag=dis&ItemId=65422

5) Siemens buys technology from Children's Hospital Medical Center

Siemens Medical Solutions is expanding its partnership with
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and will incorporate
some of the hospital's physician technology into its own offerings.

Siemens, based in Malvern, Pa., has purchased Cincinnati Children's
pediatric order sets, clinical pathways, care plans, and dose
checking rules and references. Siemens will use the Cincinnati
Children's content technology as the foundation for pediatric
computerized physician order entry (CPOE) starter sets that can be
used by other Siemens customers.

The agreement means that Siemens customers can use innovations
created in Cincinnati to achieve positive outcomes. In using
Siemens INVISION product, Cincinnati Children's created a system to
eliminate transcription errors in medication orders.

The hospital has achieved a 35 percent reduction in medication
errors, and a 52 percent improvement in medication turnaround
times.

http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2005/02/21/daily40.html?jst\
=b_ln_hl
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