MT India Newsletter - http://www.MTIndia.info/

Sep 02, 2006
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"The old order changeth, giving place to new,
Lest one good custom, should corrupt the world."

~ Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892 - "Morte D'Arthur"
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Dear Friends,

The old timers amongst you will remember, way back in 1998 before
MTIndia was born, there were dedicated boards for Indian MTs and
businesses: "MT Daily India Board" & the "MT Daily India Board."
MTDaily used to be running on modified Matt's Script Archive for
WWWBoard - basically a threaded message board woven on cgi scripts,
which allowed users to post new messages and follow-up to existing
ones - historical versions of message boards you see today. For
those interested in history, you can find these India boards
archived here (take a peek - I am sure you'll recognize some
names):

http://web.archive.org/web/20000929045942/www.mtdaily.com/states/india/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000929045947/www.mtdaily.com/mentors/indiamts/

When we went about designing The Forum at MTIndia, we decided not
to upset the user interface of the community and stuck to the
threaded interface, although it was powered by Cold Fusion
scripting language with an MS SQL enterprise database.

However technology changes, and with it, so does user preference.
The present Forum at MTIndia served its purpose and more, and it's
time for it to be put to rest. Further postings will be disallowed.
Relevant threads will be archived for future reference.

The new Forum is now online at:
http://mtindia.info/forum/

This is pretty much a next-generation message board. The threaded
view is gone, the flat view being the only option. If you frequent
the MTChat/MTDesk Message Center/Hot Zone, the user interface in
the flat view is pretty much the same.

A basic registration which verifies your email id, is required to
post. A help tab is there to answer your basic "how to" questions.

This is a weatherbeaten community, so Onward Ho, Friends!

Cheers!

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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NEWS AND VIEWS :
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1) Pioneering work helps raise standards of the Filipino MT
industry

One of the real pioneers in the MT industry is Myla Rose
Mundo-Reyes, now managing director of Total Transcription Solutions
Inc. (TTSI) and newly-elected president of Medical Transcription
Industry Association of the Philippines inc. (MTIAPI), the
organization of MT companies in the country.

A veteran of the field, Myla is a strong believer in the potentials
of the MT industry and her success story can attest to the fact
that a career in MT can really offer a promising future. Like most
Filipinos, Myla struggled to seek employment. She took on odd jobs,
some of which were not related to her BS Nursing degree. "I passed
the CGFNS but did not aggressively pursue efforts to work abroad."

Myla accidentally discovered medical transcription when Innodata,
where she was working as a proofreader in 1994, opened an MT
department. While working as a medical transcriptionist and later
as unit manager, she continued to pursue her Masters of Arts in
Nursing, squeezing in some time to work as a college clinical
instructor for Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. "I shifted my
Masters education from Nursing to Business Administration at De La
Salle University," she says. It was unfortunate, however, that she
did not have the chance to finish it because of her busy schedule.

After working for Outsource Transcription Philippines, Inc. (OTPI)
as Vice President for several years, Myla did consulting jobs for
start-up medical transcription companies until she was invited by
TTSI to join them in April, 2002 as Operations Manager.

"TTSI started with only around 10 employees. Now, we have a
production facility with at least 150 MTs, providing overflow work
to smaller MT companies around the country. TTSI is now seen as a
'big sister' that assists smaller players in the industry," she
explains.

The petite 34-year-old professional, married to Engr. Ian John
Reyes and mother of one, has also helped raise the standards of the
MT industry by taking part in developing training regulations,
curriculum standards, registration standards and national
accreditation system.

"Our dream at MTIAPI is to put the Philippines on the map as The
Medical Transcription destination of choice by most countries. I
hope to raise MT to the level of a respectable profession for
Filipinos. I would also like to see the youth of tomorrow
benefiting from what we are working so hard for right now," she
adds.

http://www.mb.com.ph/archive_pages.php?url=http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2006/08/2\
5/INFO2006082572591.html

2) 'Telecommuting' is changing the way we live

In New Zealand a local company, Interscribe is looking to make good
use of this trend here too. Interscribe, a joint venture company
between Transcription Holdings and established customer contact
centre PHONEplus, is looking to recruit more New Zealand based
staff to join the ranks of its professional Medical
Transcriptionists, in order to cope with rapidly growing volumes of
work from US and UK based hospitals.

"The growth in work from the US and UK is substantial", says
Kathryn Starr, Interscribe's General Manager. "Our team is well
regarded because of the commonality of language, treatment and
skill requirements. We are regularly congratulated on the high
levels of quality delivered by our NZ-based team".

Interscribe is actively recruiting up to 10 new transcriptionists a
month. "Working from home is a big advantage for our team and
broadband availability with more competitive pricing has really
helped us recruit new staff. There are psychological reasons why
people enjoy it. Experiencing less stress, finding it easy to
self-motivate, having more time for themselves and to nurture their
children and feeling they have a better work-life balance. We do
have office facilities for training and for those staff who want to
come in and enjoy the social aspects of an office environment form
time to time, but most staff prefer the advantages of working from
home", says Starr.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0609/S00038.htm

3) Acusis Announces Technology Advisory Board Creation

Acusis announced the creation of the Technology Advisory Board
comprised of distinguished experts in selected technical areas that
are core to the company technology strategy. The mission of the
board is to provide guidance and insights to the Acusis Advanced
Technology team.

"The creation of the Technology Advisory Board demonstrates our
commitment to advanced technology and reflects our priorities,"
said Srdjan Kovacevic, Acusis Chief Process Architect and Chief
Technologist. "Technology is an important part of our success as we
continually strive to improve our internal processes and provide
best experience for our customers and internal users. We have
selected members whose expertise in human language technologies,
signal processing, statistical analysis and mathematical modeling
will help us further improve our capabilities and ensure we add
value to our customers and consistently deliver the best quality
and timely transcripts."

http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/640074/acusis_announces_technology_advis\
ory_board_creation/index.html?source=r_technology

4) Sri Lankan MTSO to outsource long-line fishermen to Taiwan

A Sri Lankan business outsourcing firm has landed a job to train
and place around 4,000 local youths in the Taiwan fishing industry.
Business Process Outsource (BPO) Services (Pvt) Ltd, will train Sri
Lankan fisherman to speak the Taiwanese language of Hokien prior to
their overseas placement.

New to the business outsourcing market, BPO Services (Pvt) Ltd has
an ongoing medical transcription project for doctors in the United
States and a call centre.
Medical transcription is a process in which the transcribers listen
to dictated recordings made by healthcare professionals and
transcribe them into medical reports, correspondence and other
administrative material. Sri Lanka's 100 million dollar BPO
business is driven by around 21 major companies employing over
2,500 people.

http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/fullstory.php?newsID=586189177&no_view=1&SEAR\
CH_TERM=17

5) Ghana - UNDP offers MT training in rural areas

Mr Ampiah told the GNA that UNDP had already assisted the project
with 200,000 dollars since it adopted ICT as part of its programme
a few years ago.

He said another 200,000 dollars was given out to support the
setting up of the Business Incubator Centre, which would help to
enhance the skills of selected ICT graduates into developing their
own innovative programmes to assist in national developmental
programmes. Mr Solomon Asante Dartey, Coordinator of GMIC, who
briefed Prof.

He said alongside the incubator programme, business process
outsourcing training in the areas of medical transcription, centre
and data entry capacity programmes were being offered.

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=108679
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