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Nov 25, 2006
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A Link between education and employability...

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ADVERTISEMENT:
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Decipher Intime Transcriptions P Limited, in association
with Medware Inc, USA is looking to hire experienced Medical
Transcriptionists and Quality Assurance personnel for its branches
at Bangalore, Mysore, Goa, Coimbatore and Belgaum.

Positions also available for work on the eScription platform.

Persons interested in a secure, financially enviable, and an
independent work atmosphere, please contact: hr@...

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M & As
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Looking to buy out established MT and /or Medical Billing & Coding
companies with 100-200 employees as a single operation or separate
operations, anywhere in India.

Contact:
Dr. Amit Chatterjee, SM
amit@...
Tel: + 91 - 080 - 2219 3703 / 2856 1251 / 3921 0703

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Dear Friends,

Relevant, industry-oriented learning, which creates a pool of
job-ready and employable manpower, is becoming key to the growth of
the ITES-BPO sector. The young and vibrant BPO industry, which
relies on skilled, English-speaking and domain-specific talent,
needs a constant supply of this resource to maintain its
competitive edge across the globe.

The manpower projections for the segment, meanwhile, are far from
encouraging. According to the NASSCOM-McKinsey Study 2005, the
ITES-BPO industry, which is expected to generate over 1.4 million
jobs by 2010, will face a shortfall of around 500,000 professionals
by that year. Clearly, the industry has to take corrective measures
immediately to plug this demand-supply gap.

Anupam Prakash, Asia Lead, Global Sourcing and Business
Transformation of Hewitt, in a recently organized summit, spoke
about how the "Demographic dividend" could be transformed into a
"Development dividend." According to Prakash, India - owing to its
young population, 55 percent of which was "less that 25 years of
age" - would have a surplus of 47 million people in the working age
group by 2020. At that time, the US would face a shortfall of 17
million people, while China would require an additional 10 million
professionals). While this surplus manpower represented a major
strength for India going forward, it had to be converted into
productive and proficient talent, before it could be harnessed by
the ITES-BPO sector. According to World Bank's Education Economist,
Deepa Sankar, this conversion could only happen by linking
education to employability.

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) Accentia Technologies in strategic alliance with Asscent
Infoserve

Accentia Technologies has tied-up with Bangalore based Asscent
Infoserve for using their infrastructure facilities of 7,000 SFT,
meant for business process outsourcing services. Asscent Infoserve
will execute Accentia`s outsourced business in health care BPO
services. Accentia, through its subsidiary, Geosoft Technologies
has a BPO presence with the operations located at Trivandrum,
Pennsylvania and London.

As per the strategic alliance with Asscent Infoserve, Accentia will
utilize the infrastructure strengths of Asscent Infoserve and it
will have access to outsource the 600-seater BPO facility. Accentia
Technologies was formly known as Hitech Entertainment.

http://myiris.com/shares/news/storyShow.php?fileR=20060925145541043&dir=2006/09/\
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2) Work opportunities in medical transcription

Are there really good opportunities in MT? The demand for medical
transcription will continue to increase as the demand for health
care rises. Medical transcripts are the source documents and
"proofs of work done" to meet US federal and state requirements by
medical practitioners, and the basis of patient medical management.

India, Philippines, Pakistan and other countries continue to
service US health-care facilities as the demand for electronic
conversion of medical records increases by 15 percent to 20 percent
every year. The Philippines has, in fact, recognized its potentials
by leveraging on the people skills and sophisticated IT
infrastructure. There is an apparent dearth in the number of
qualified people to do the job. Currently estimated at 6,000 to
7,000, the number of medical transcriptionists needed by the
country is forecasted at 100,000 by year 2010.

Is training required to be an MT? Those who have relegated medical
transcription to the "clerical" classification have a basic
misunderstanding of the knowledge and skills required for this
profession. Although medical transcription is performed using a
keyboard-it is not a keyboarding skill. It is a language skill. In
order to properly translate and document patient care records, the
MT must employ the knowledge of English grammar and usage,
understanding of basic anatomy and physiology, disease processes,
laboratory medicine, and pharmacology in order to select and use
appropriate terminology, since there are many sound-alike words in
the medical language. Knowledge of business technology and computer
operation is also important. Listening and researching skills are
also critical components in the learning process.

The above are the competencies required of a medical
transcriptionist. While it is true that people with medical
background may have a better chance of learning the competencies,
let me share with you the current trend....

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2006/nov/26/yehey/mt/20061126MT1.html

3) Are Your Medical Records Accurate?

Jay Vance's medical records show he has had an appendectomy. He
hasn't. "I've never had an appendectomy. Now, if I go to the
hospital and I'm having pain in a certain area and it could be
appendicitis but my records say he's had an appendectomy, so they
could eliminate that as the problem, when in fact it could be the
problem," says Vance.

Problems like these can easily go undetected, which is why Jay's
job is so important. He makes sure errors don't make it to your
medical records. "We catch a lot of the errors that just crop up in
a doctor's busy day," says Vance. Technology helps-interpreting
doctors' messy handwriting has evolved to transcribing voice notes.

Vance, who is a Certified Medical Transcriptionist and also the
President of Vance Digital, says, "while we're listening to that
information, we're actually transcribing it on a keyboard into a
computer or a word processing document." Jay tells us it's still
not an easy job. "It's certainly not something that anybody with a
computer can sit down and do," he says. "This is Gaby recording my
voiced medical record for transcription."

This is one device doctors use everyday to send your medical
history for transcription, except they do it in much noisier
environments like an emergency room, a car a bathroom, you name it.
Jay says he is determined to be the safety net that keeps mistakes
like the one on his record from ending up on yours. You can check
with your doctor to make sure your medical records are accurate.
Jay is still trying to correct his.

http://www.kswt.com/home/4636201.html

4) Dictaphone PowerScribe® from Nuance Dominates Speech
Recognition-Driven Reporting for Radiology

Nuance Communications, Inc. announced that its Dictaphone®
PowerScribe® system is the leader in speech recognition solutions
for radiology with more than 900 customers. Proven in hundreds of
implementations worldwide, Dictaphone PowerScribe saves healthcare
organizations thousands of dollars per radiologist each year in
reduced or eliminated manual transcription costs, automates the
clinical documentation process and reduces the long turnaround time
associated with the manual transcription of radiology
interpretations, part of a $10 billion transcription industry in
North America alone.

PowerScribe sales continue to outpace the industry with recent
implementations at such prestigious institutions as
Memorial-Hermann Healthcare System of Texas, Jefferson Health
System of Pennsylvania, Vancouver Clinic of Vancouver, Canada and
Mt. Sinai Hospital of Chicago, Illinois. "In our industry, there
are three critical success factors when it comes to clinical notes:
quality, turnaround time and cost, and PowerScribe has probably
been the single greatest product contributor to our ability to do
it right, do it fast and keep our costs in line," said Robert
Weeks, director of the information systems division at Memorial
Hermann Hospital System, Houston. "Now, when our physicians need a
report by next day, they know they don't need to order a stat, and
when they really do need a stat, they can get it in hours not days.
When you combine that with our annualized savings figure for this
initiative projected at about $1.5 million, it is no wonder
PowerScribe is dominating the industry."

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&ne\
wsId=20061127005297&newsLang=en

5) Grundig Business Systems presents the world's first wireless
dictation microphone at the RSNA 2006

Grundig Business Systems GmbH, announced that it will showcase the
world's first wireless dictation microphone at the RSNA 2006
(Chicago, IL, Nov. 26 - Dec. 1, Hall A, booth 3948C). The
DictaCordEx connects with the PC through a USB port offering
radiologists maximum flexibility and freedom when recording
dictations.

The versatile DigtaCordEx with its slim ergonomic design and
intuitive slide switch features an extra battery option to allow
for almost limitless recording time. Users can move freely inside a
33 feet radius. A visual and audible warning is issued when a user
moves out of range, while the dictation is simultaneously saved in
the temporary memory for voice data.

Introducing the enhanced version of DigtaSoft 3.1 dictation
management software, Grundig Business Systems minimizes the data
volumes in Citrix environments and expands the control functions
for dictation machines with an HID interface. The software also
automatically recognizes the settings of USB microphones, thus
completing Grundig Business Systems' one-stop offering for
efficient radiology reporting.

http://www.healthtechwire.com/Press-Release.56+M5526a835b98.0.html
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