May 23, 2006
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NEWS AND VIEWS :
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1) WorldTech chooses Dragon MT for Back-End Platform

Worldtech announced the decision to utilize the Dragon MT Workflow System
for its primary backend platform for transcription workflow, speech
recognition, and reporting interface. Worldtech was founded in 1998 to
service solo physicians and small clinics for Medical Transcription.
Worldtech has since grown to over 600 providers and has expanded its service
offering to include Electronic Medical Records, Medical Report Generation
Software, and Billing and Collection Services.

Dragon MT Workflow System automates transcription processing to ensure
optimal efficiency from dictation capture through document distribution. By
strategically applying the latest automation technologies, Dragon MT
Workflow System will lower costs, reduce document turnaround times, and
increase the accuracy of patient records.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/5/prweb386014.htm

2) MT industry growing 50 pc annually

With shortage of transcriptionists across the world, Indian Medical
Transcription Industry Association (IMTIA) is in the process of holding
dialogue with various colleges to run medical transcription (MT) programmes
as part of syllabus to meet the growing requirements.

Depending on the success of IMTIA initiative in Bangalore, where some
colleges have come forward to train students in MT, it was planned to extend
the programme to other major towns, particularly Coimbatore, Association
president Suresh Nair told reporters here today.

IMTIA would provide software support, like men and material, if the colleges
were ready to provide infrastructure facilities, he said. The industry holds
great potential, with the US, UK and Australia emerging as new sources of
business, he said adding the market in India was growing at the rate of 50
per cent annually, presently standing at US $ 250 million.

The size of the global medical industry was estimated to be around $ 12
billion and India could play a leading role in view of the tremendous human
resources available.

IMTIA aimed at creating awareness about medical transcription as a viable
long-term career option, Nair, also CEO of Spheris India Ltd, said. It was
only a matter of time before it moved up the value chain to render services
such as medical coding and billing services, document imaging, data
warehousing, claim processing, insurance and other high end services.

http://www.chennaionline.com/colnews/newsitem.asp?NEWSID=%7B7B61D833-B791-4C40-A\
070-36F680562163%7D&CATEGORYNAME=National

3) Export fears over Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital's patient notes

Union representatives are to meet medical secretaries at Norfolk's main
hospital over fears the typing of clinical notes will be sent abroad.
Secretaries at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital are concerned
that this will mean job losses but also lead to potentially serious
consequences for patients with an increase in typing errors raising the risk
of the wrong treatments being given.

The N&N, which is looking to plug a £15m gap in its funding for the current
year, says it is looking at out-sourcing notes to India as one among a wide
range of options for saving money and cutting costs as it strives to avoid
making 450 workers redundant.

But what has raised the level of concern among N&N secretaries is news that
the East and North Herts NHS Trust is looking at a proposal to make around
50 medical secretaries redundant as it outsources typing of medical notes
overseas.

Health service union Unison say other branches in the eastern region -
including the Cambridge branch which covers Addenbrooke's Hospital - are
facing a similar issue with the Hertfordshire branch on the verge of a
ballot over industrial action. A number of other health trusts across the
country are also outsourcing medical notes overseas.

"We are concerned about the quality issues and about job security and we
expect to be meeting the medical secretaries in the not too distant future
over the matter.

"There is the suggestion also that the checking of the work of the
outsourced material is almost as laborious as doing the work yourself in the
first place. It will appear that if there are fewer medical secretaries,
medics will have to check the typing being done on their behalf.

"It may save money in one area but is a waste of time and money elsewhere,
having medics use their time to check typing."

N&N spokesman Andrew Stronach said the hospital was looking at the
possibility of outsourcing notes overseas but before it did, it would carry
out trials.

He said: "As a result of the trust's financial position this year we are
exploring a range of measures that will deliver savings and maintain the
services we offer patients. We are aware that many NHS hospitals have
already taken the option of outsourcing transcription of audio tapes. This
is an option we are exploring and no decision has been reached yet.

"What we would do first is a trial where our secretaries would get one set
of notes and a set of notes would be sent to India. We would assess those on
qualitative grounds and on financial grounds."

Several London hospitals already send notes overseas and the University
Hospital of North Staffordshire - facing a £17m deficit and the possible
loss of 1,000 posts - is trialing the idea with letters dictated digitally,
sent to a unit in India, typed up and returned electronically in 24 hours.

http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBr\
and=EDPOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED17%20May%202006%2020%3A53%3A50%3A850

4) India Tries to Improve Offshoring Security

India's Nasscom (National Association of Software and Service Companies) is
heading up a movement to create an SRO (self-regulatory organization) that
will improve the security and safety standards for outsourcing and
offshoring in India. The SRO will be responsible for establishing and
enforcing standards for privacy and security for its member companies.
Nasscom has already spent $300,000 and over a year developing the project;
now it's looking for a chief executive to run it. After Nasscom finds a CEO,
the SRO will separate itself from Nasscom and become an independent entity,
relying on membership fees for its funding.

http://www.nasscom.org/artdisplay.asp?Art_id=5209

5) Musharraf Okays roadmap to produce skilled Workforce

President Musharraf set a five-year timeframe for improvement in the
vocational and technical education system and stressed that its impact on
the national economy should be visible within a year.

"We must improve curricula at these institutes and ramp up the capacity to
produce skilled workforce of international quality as it will not only open
opportunities for people at the grass roots level but also raise their
profile and demand as workers in advanced and industrialized countries," he
stated.

Currently, the number of skilled workers are being produced at various
institutions but the number falls short of the industry's requirements,
which has been growing rapidly in recent years in sectors including
information technology, tourism services, commercial support, livestock,
transport, medical transcription workers etc.

http://www.pakistantimes.net/2006/05/19/top2.htm

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