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Aug 08, 2007
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Membership and Benefits!

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Dear Friends,

With many players in the industry reaching a level of maturity, and
others still joining in; we have decided to restructure services
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criteria at the outsourcing center. Unfortunately an internet
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We now offer you a new pre-qualified, restrained, but targeted
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Past or Present members of MTIndia, desiring to continue with their
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Cheers!

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MT India ~ www.mtindia.org
"The Community of MT Professionals"

"It takes years to become an overnight success! Inch by inch, it's
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NEWS AND VIEWS :
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1) Accentia Technologies acquires two U.S. firms

Accentia Technologies, at the Technopark campus Thiruvananthapuram,
has acquired two IT companies based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
the United States (U.S.). The GRS Physicians Billing Services and
the GRS Systems are both established brands in the U.S. health care
insurance field.

With this acquisition, Accentia Technologies gains control over two
entities that provide billing and collection services to over 600
hospitals, clinics and their insurance collaborators in the U.S.

Chief Executive Officer of Accentia Technologies Pradeep
Viswambharan entered the IT industry with the establishment of
Geosoft, a medical transcription company in Technopark, and later
Iridium, a business process outsourcing firm.

http://www.hindu.com/2007/08/08/stories/2007080857232100.htm

2) Software Paradigms acquires Comat!

Mysore-based Software Paradigms (India) Ltd (SPI) on Monday
announced the acquisition of Comat Technologies, a medical
transcription (MT) firm. SPI is the city’s largest IT and business
applications solution provider.

As part of the deal, SPI will take over all the US and UK BPO/LPO
(legal process outsourcing) customers of Comat Technologies being
serviced from Mysore.

Over 400 of its employees working on MT, legal transcription and
legal coding services will be transferred to SPI’s payroll, taking
the number of SPI employees to over 1,000 and double the size of
its operations.

“The newly-acquired businesses will contribute 15 per cent of the
annualised revenue the company expects to book in 2007-08,” said
SPI CEO Sid Mookerji, after exchanging documents of acquisition
with Comat counterpart Ravi Rangan at the SPI’s 11-acre campus, SPI
City.

http://www.business-standard.com:80/iceworld/storypage.php?leftnm=8&subLeft=1&ch\
klogin=N&autono=289764&tab=r

3) KLAS Ranks Nuance’s Focus Infomatics the Leader in Outsourced
Medical Transcription Services

Nuance Communications, Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Focus
Infomatics, Inc., is ranked #1 in the Outsourced Transcription
category of the 2007 KLAS Enterprises “Top 20: 2007 Mid-Year Report
Card.”

This is the third time Focus Infomatics has been ranked #1 in the
Professional Services for Outsourced Transcription category by
KLAS. In addition to Focus’ #1 ranking, Dictaphone® Healthcare
Solutions, also from Nuance, is the only speech recognition
technology consistently selected as part of the top three solutions
across both front-end and back-end speech recognition categories,
and again is proud to announce its top three ranking within the
“Top 20: 2007 Mid-Year Report Card” for the following categories:

- Transcription and Back-end Speech Recognition
- Dictation
- Front-end Speech Recognition.

“By delivering exceptional quality and unparallel customer support
Focus continues to be recognized as the clear leader in the
industry,” said Anirudh Baheti, CEO of Focus Infomatics. “As part
of the Nuance family, Focus adds yet another KLAS-leading offering
to the Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions portfolio.”

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&ne\
wsId=20070626005208&newsLang=en

4) Bhilwara Scribe buys two BPOs

Bhilwara Scribe, the IT arm of the Rs 3,000-crore LNJ Bhilwara
Group, has acquired the US-based Benson Transcription Technologies
Inc and Bangalore-based Global Meditrans Private Ltd.

Benson Transcription, with 50 US-based employees, has a turnover of
approximately $2 million with another $2 million revenue to be
added with the work in the pipeline. In order to complement the
acquisition in the US and cater to the increased work, Bhilwara
Scribe has acquired the Bangalore-based medical transcription
outfit Global Meditrans Pvt Ltd. Global Meditrans is a 200-seat
healthcare BPO and has been providing services to the US and Canada
for the last seven years.

http://www.business-standard.com/iceworld/storypage.php?leftnm=8&subLeft=2&chklo\
gin=N&autono=291335&tab=r

5) SPi opens Chennai facility

Content outsourcing solutions provider SPi, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Philippines-based ePLDT, is looking at increasing its
headcount in India to 2,000 over the next 6-8 months from the
present 1,300. This expansion comes in the wake of increasing
demands from its customers.

The company, which commenced operations in India in 2004, has
opened a 17,000-sft facility in Chennai to house the operations of
its publishing and healthcare businesses. Chennai has been made the
headquarters for the company's publishing and healthcare businesses
with delivery centres in Puducherry, New Delhi and Coimbatore.

The Chennai facility, which will have a seating capacity for about
1,100 people and has already commenced operations with an initial
staff strength of about 160 people.

SPi’s Coimbatore facility focuses on medical transcription work
with an employee strength of 400, expected to be scaled up to 1,000
this year.

Addressing a press conference, Ernest L Cu, president and chief
executive officer, SPi, said the company was keen to grow through
the inorganic route in India and would explore acquisition of
companies which would bring in new offerings for its customers. “We
have solid financial back-up from our parent company and we will
have $50-$100 million available to us for mergers and acquisitions
every year,” he added.

The company is also exploring the option of moving its medical
billing and revenue cycle management services from the US to Asia
as part of its strategy to make Asia a hub for its offshore and
delivery operations.

Revenues from SPi’s global BPO operations, both voice and
non-voice, are expected to reach $200 million (now $130 million) by
the end of 2007.

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