Mar 25, 2006
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Health Information Privacy and Security Week

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WORLDTECH wishes you a rocking Poila Boishakh
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Applications are invited for

1.. Proofreading positions at KOLKATA. Only those with more than two years
of experience and exposure to proofreading need apply. Selected candidates
will undergo three months' orientation at Hyderabad. Compensation linked to
merit and performance alone.

2.. Transcription positions at HYDERABAD. Only MTs with more than two
years experience in multispecialty work need apply.

Initial interviews for both positions will be held at KOLKATA in APRIL 2006.

Apply in confidence with a detailed resume e-mailed to:
contactus@...

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Dear Friends,

April 9 through 15, 2006, is Health Information Privacy and Security Week.
This annual event is sponsored by the American Health Information Management
Association (AHIMA) to raise awareness among healthcare professionals, their
employers, and the public of the importance of protecting the privacy,
confidentiality, and security of personal health information.

To access the planning kit online, visit http://www.ahima.org/hipsweek.

On another front, in continuation to last week's newsletter:

IF THE GRASS IS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE...

It's probably getting better care. Success is not a matter of luck or
circumstance. It's not a matter of fate or the breaks you get or who you
know.

Success is a matter of sticking to a set of commonsense principles anyone
can master. In 'Lead the Field' Earl Nightingale explains these guidelines:
the magic word in life is ATTITUDE. It determines your actions, as well as
the actions of others. It tells the world what you expect from it. When you
accept responsibility for your attitude, you accept responsibility for your
entire life.

Now it's your turn to bring positive changes to your own life, changes that
will allow you to lead the field yourself!


Live your dreams!

Cheers!

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

"It takes years to become an overnight success! Inch by inch, it's
a cinch."

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Location: Kolkata AND Mumbai
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1) Medical Transcriptionist: Total no of vacancy: 200
Minimum 1-year experience in live Production.

2) Editor: Total no. of vacancy : 80
Minimum 2 years of live production experience of which at least 1 year
should have been in a similar position. Persons working as Senior Medical
Transcriptionists will be put through an Accelerated Editors' Development
Program (AEDP) during probation and will be confirmed as editors depending
on performance.

3) Quality Analyst/ Proofer : Total no. of vacancy : 20
Minimum 2 years live production experience of which atleast 1 year should
have been in a similar position.

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NEWS AND VIEWS :
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1) The Rise of India

What will India's innovation and booming economy mean for Americans?
(Streamiming video - need broadband to view)

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1674437

2) First DTS class gets ready to graduate

There's plenty of work waiting for the 31 students who will graduate from
DTS America Inc.'s first daytime training session. The program's first night
class will graduate another 19 students this summer. There are still plenty
of job openings, as the medical transcription company has promised to bring
200 jobs to Carlsbad. The next wave of classes will begin April 3. The new
wave of classes will take place at the newly renovated DTS America building
at 805 N. Eighth Street.

The job training is free. Students will become paid employees after the
training and receive $10 an hour. The company also offers plenty of
opportunity for salary increase, said Bonnie Bakal, vice president of
medical transcription development. "We have several clients that we've sold
specifically for Carlsbad," Bakal said. "We already have work."

DTS made some adjustments during the first training session, Bakal said. "We
fined tuned our curriculum a little bit," she said. "For the first few weeks
the curriculum was pretty overwhelming. We've tweaked the lesson plans and
we're pretty happy with it." While the basic training session will prepare
employees to work in transcription, the certification process doesn't
actually begin until after two years of employment.

Nationally, the industry has a shortage of hundreds of thousands of jobs,
she said. "There is much more work out there in the medical field than there
are people to do it," she said. "Getting the work is not the problem,
getting the workers has been the problem." DTS America has its headquarters
in Tennessee and the Carlsbad location will be its first production center.

"This is a concerted effort on Carlsbad's part to help us develop a
workforce," Bakal said. "In essence, you can't just go out there and find
folk who do this without training. We needed a home."

http://www.currentargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060321/NEWS01/603210303\
/1001

3) CBay Appoints New Members on its Board

As part of its corporate restructuring process, healthcare BPO major CBay
Systems India Ltd will soon have on its Board of Directors Dr. S. Narayan,
IAS and former economic advisor to the Prime Minister of India and former
Secretary of Finance and Revenue, Government of India, Mr. Nagendra Nath
Jha, IFS who served as India's High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and has held a
spectrum of positions subsequent to his retirement - Lt. Governor of Andaman
and Nicobar Islands and Pondicherry between 2001-2004 and Charles
Habermacher, Chairman and Managing Director of Habconsult AG, a leading
financial consultancy company to international institutional customers.
Prior to founding Habconsult AG, Mr. Habermacher served in various senior
positions in HSBC Republic Bank Zurich and American Express Bank Switzerland
AG. et al.

"As part of our strategy to build a truly global company, CBay Systems is
putting together a high powered Board that will guide the company to deliver
world class advantage of people, technology and business processes to its
clients", said Mr. Raman Kumar, Chairman and CEO. "We welcome Dr. Narayan,
Mr. Jha and Mr. Habermacher to our Board. They join Mr. Nadir Godrej, Vice
Chairman and Managing Director of Godrej Industries, who has advised and
guided CBay Board for over 5 years now", he further added.

Established in 1999, CBay has grown to provide customized technology and
services solutions to over 650 healthcare provider clients in the US.
Already the third largest company in medical transcription technology and
services in North America, CBay is now diversifying its technology based
service offering to healthcare receivables management.

http://www.businesswireindia.com/PressRelease.asp?b2mid=9362

4) British patients get letters typed in India

The Harshill complex of the University Hospital of North Staffordshire,
facing debts of nearly £15.5 million, took the step to cut its operating
costs. Correspondence is typed in India and returned to the trust within 24
hours.

The system - Digital Offshore Transcription (DOT) - sees the correspondence
dictated verbally by a doctor. It is stored as a digital file on a computer
that is then transferred by email to a unit in India staffed by what the
hospital describes as "qualified and experienced medical typists".

The typists then listen to the doctor's notes and type them into a letter,
which is returned by email. The DOT system is being used on a trial basis in
the fracture clinic, where there is said to be a shortage of medical
secretaries and the nature of the work is unpredictable.

"The big advantage of the DOT service is that we do not need a fixed
contract. We can use the service as and when we need to. It is early days,
but so far the results look very promising, with accurate letters being
turned around within 24 hours.

"This takes a lot of the pressure off the staff, allowing them to get on
with other aspects of their work. It also improves the service for patients
and other healthcare professionals."

http://www.newkerala.com/news2.php?action=fullnews&id=29415

5) Philippines a silent outsourcing star?

Medical transcription has become big business for outsourcing companies.
Almost 7000 US hospitals are required to convert medical records into data
format. It's a $US15 billion market in the US. Some work has gone to the
Philippines, now home to 40 or more medical transcription companies, up from
nine in 2001.

The efforts of the Philippines' Government in attracting such work has paid
off. Local outsourcing firms report revenue of about $US4 billion, up from
$US350 million in 2001. They employ 230,000. India, the world's outsourcing
giant, employs five times as many, but has 12 times the population, which
suggests the Philippines is something of a silent star on the outsourcing
stage.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/philippines-a-silent-outsourcing-star/200\
6/03/21/1142703361345.html?page=2

6) MT Training at Ghana

For Ghana to become one of the global players in BPO, the country must have
trained man-power to compete and that is why 5M Ghana and Blue Pearl Info
Media of India (??) are offering Diploma Course in Certified Medical
Transcription.

http://www.graphicghana.info/article.asp?artid=11211

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