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May 21, 2005

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Quiz Contest 2005 - Winners!

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Dear Friends,

A Happy MT Week and congratulations to the winners of the Annual MT
India Quiz Contest 2005. Thank you for your enthusiastic
participation!

Trophy & 1st Prize of INR 2000 goes to:

Parvathy Peter, Proofreader, Concorde Digital Technologies, Chennai

Two 2nd Prizes - Certificate of Merit and Cash Prizes of INR 500
each, to:

Raffi Mohamed, QA/Proofer, Vee Technologies, Salem
P S Nandakumar, Quality Manager, Acusis, Bangalore

Three 3rd Prizes - Certificate of Merit and Cash Prizes of INR 300
each, to:

Parvez Ahmad Ansari, Medical Transcriptionist, Infovision Software,
Mumbai
Paras Jitendra Parekh, Home-Based Transcriptionist, Spryance India,
Rajkot
Shivkumar Raheja, Medical Transcriptionist, SourceMT, Mumbai

Certificate of Participation for all Final Round Qualifiers

If you haven't, it is suggested you read the MT Week Proclamation:
http://www.aamt.org/ScriptContent/downloads/MT_Week_Proclomation.pdf

Also, one of the first bulletin boards for Indian MTs was hosted at
MT Daily, way back in 1998. And it's HIPAA, not HIPPA.

Ciao!

Maj (Dr) Amit Chatterjee, SM
Strategist / Founder ~ mailto:amit@...
MT India ~ www.mtindia.org
"The Community of MT Professionals"

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NEWS AND VIEWS :
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1) Overseas antidote

An army of foreign foot soldiers has stepped up to take pressure
off the overextended U.S. medical system. Offshore radiologists,
medical transcriptionists and medical coders are increasingly
helping U.S. hospitals cope with ever-rising demand for health care
and ballooning documentation demands.

"Probably (offshoring) has made it a tougher market to do business
in," said Beth Tribelhorn, president of Denver-based Preferred
Physician's Transcription, a medical transcription firm. "There is
no margin. Everyone expects you to compete with what an offshore
agency quotes as a cheap price."

"They are trying to level the playing field so that our
international counterparts are held to the same standards as us,"
said Peter Preziosi, executive director of the American Association
for Medical Transcription.

But what happens if 50 out of 200 patients at a community hospital
decide, on a given day, they don't want their data sent offshore?
"The problem is, it's cost-prohibitive," Preziosi said.

Market research firm IDC forecasts that spending on medical
transcription services will rise 16 percent each year, on average,
from 2004 to 2008. And while there are an estimated 200,000 to
300,000 medical transcriptionists in the U.S., even double that
amount couldn't meet demand, Preziosi said.

Nobody thinks offshoring is going to go away. Along with a more
secure paper trail, AAMT would like to set international standards
and require that U.S. and foreign transcriptionists earn a license.
"Right now, anybody can access your medical record, which contains
your deepest, most personal secrets," said Preziosi.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/business/article/0,1299,DRMN_4_3
795082,00.html

2) Degati, Seloff join Spheris leadership

Joseph Degati has joined as chief medical officer. Degati has 20
years' experience in information systems in the retail,
manufacturing, marketing and service industries. Diane Seloff fills
the new position of senior vice president of corporate development.

Seloff began her career as a senior consultant with Arthur
Andersen. Before joining Spheris, she was director of consulting
services for the Vanderbilt University Center for Better Health.

http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20050519/BUSINESS04/505190372/1047/BUSINESS

3) Textware Solutions Announces Instant Text Mobile

Textware Solutions announces Instant Text Mobile for Palm OS. The
new program offers a very fast and accurate solution for those who
use a PDA for text-entry: composing emails, taking notes or
preparing documents. The program makes text-entry so much easier
that it is very likely to encourage many users to do a larger share
of their text-entry work directly on the PDA, rather than on a
desktop computer.

Textware is a leading supplier of solutions for very fast
text-entry, with Instant Text for Windows - the leading text
expander solution in Medical Transcription. "With Instant Text
Mobile, a thought which may take 1/10 of a second to form, three
seconds to say, and six to ten seconds to type will now take just
under a second to enter on a PDA," said Jean Ichbiah, president of
Textware Solutions.

http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/news/2005/may/20/news2.html

4) MedLink VPN and Apollo Complete 1st Phase of MedLink EHR

Western Media Group Corporation announced that with its IT
development partner Apollo Health Street Limited, that the 1st
Phase of the development of the MedLink EHR LaserCard application
has been completed. Phase II of the development is already underway
and the completion of which is anticipated by the end of May, Phase
II developments include the addition of a practice calendar which
will enhance features of the EHR to make more of a practicable
practice management application in addition to the implementation
of New Island Hospitals ADT data into the EHR to allow all of the
700 Physicians to access hospital information remotely and in real
time. The EHR has also been installed in several Physicians
practices in the New York and Los Angeles area's to conduct a beta
test of the system.

Apollo Health Street Limited is an end-to-end healthcare focused
services company, catering to health information needs of US based
Physician groups, Hospitals and Insurers. It is backed by the
renowned Apollo hospitals group, headquartered in India whose
integrated healthcare network involves 35 hospitals, 40 clinics and
100 plus pharmacy outlets, a workforce of 16000 including 4000
physicians.

The IT services and solutions offerings of the company includes
building software applications, package implementation, healthcare
informatics and IT consulting services for prominent healthcare
companies globally. The BPO offerings of the company include
services for hospitals and physicians namely Revenue Cycle
Management, Accounts Receivable Follow-up, Medical Coding and
Medical Transcription.

Apollo Health Street Limited is a 450+ employee organization,
operating out of Hyderabad, India and New York in the USA. Backed
by some of the doyens of the healthcare industry, Apollo Health
Street Limited has grown by more than 100% in the last three years.

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