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| Subj: MTIndia Newsletter - MT & The Visually Handicapped - II
Date: 2/12/2005 8:51:11 PM Pacific Standard Time
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MT & The Visually Handicapped...
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Dear Friends,
The mail carried in our last newsletter has generated great
interest and support towards helping the visually handicapped
choose the MT profession. I am quoting a mail from someone who has
prior experience in using visually handicapped MTs:
Dear Amit,
In regards to Visually Handicapped MTs, I want to encourage them to
continue in the medical transcription field. When I owned my
company I had two visually handicapped MTs. One was completely
blind from birth, and the other had retinitis pigmentosis. They
were both excellent transcriptionists. I hired Anna, the MT blind
since birth, right after she completed her medical transcription
course and she stayed on even after I sold my company.
She is now employed by the Division of Handicapped for the State of
Missouri and doing very well.
I can tell you that Anna never made a mistake. She may not have
been able to produce 2,000 lines per day but her 1,000 lines were
perfect and the clients loved her work. She could transcribe
anything that was given to her.
We were able to get her a keyboard that was in braile as well;
however, she was transcribing accurately even before we obtained
the keyboard. Eventually we also obtained the apparatus that was
able to talk to her over the transcription.
It was a wonderful experience for me as well as my other employees.
It also cut down on the usual complaining that some MTs tend to do,
as they witnessed every day that someone without their sight could
do such an excellent job.
Thanks for publishing the letter from the visually impaired MT.
And I say BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO.
Stella Olson, CMT, FAAMT
solson4444@earthlink.net
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MT India ~ www.mtindia.org
"The Community of MT Professionals"
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NEWS AND VIEWS :
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1) Medical Transcription in the Era of Electronic Medical Records
EMR has revolutionized the healthcare industry in recent times.
Many experts felt that EMR & Voice Recognition would totally
replace Medical Transcription - however; the industry soon realized
that transcription has certain advantages over point & click
charting and many physicians preferred to dictate notes rather than
document the data at the point of care themselves.
Transcription has long been the standard for documenting patient
encounters. It is more convenient for a provider as compared to
handwritten notes or electronic data entry. There are many
advantages of transcription in comparison to point and click
charting.
Advantages:
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working. Dictation remains the most intuitive and least
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accommodate an EMR. EMR can interact with transcription service so
that transcriptions can be attached directly into the patient's
electronic medical record, if such a facility is provided by the
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other health related events
The trends in transcription itself are changing with Medical
Transcription service providers aiming to adopt new technologies.
These technologies will evolve to increase efficiency & accuracy,
decrease turnaround time and support data capture. While many of
these technologies like such as digital dictation and electronic
signature exist today, several technologies are still on the
horizon.
http://www.newmediamedicine.com/content/view/71/1/
2) Right price matters!!
After galloping at a fast pace, BPO bigwigs are now taking a break
to watch their bottomlines.
Companies are finally putting their foot down and saying no to
business if it doesn't come at the right price or is not big
enough. Top management of quite a few big vendors is today busy
chalking out what kind of work they should not do; what kind of
deals they should not sign and how much commitment in terms of
volume or time-period should they insist on.
This is rather unusual for an industry used to an insane price war
to prevent even the tiniest piece of business from going to a
competitor. Commercial logic is finally ruling the BPO landscape,
where many a vendors have signed unviable deals where chances of
making profits are bleak though the business volume and headcount
is growing at a break-neck pace. "When you create value and assure
them that you'll consistently outperform their best global centre
by 10% of more, then they don't argue with you for a few cents and
dollars.'' says S Nagarajan, founder and COO, 24x7.
Though no one goes on record, a Delhi-based call centre recently
said no to a large American company because it wanted to outsource
only for six months and a Bangalore-based company said no to low
pricing.
In sharp contrast, desperate players have been offering what many
call suicidal pricing to fill up their orders books and unutilised
capacities. Similarly, medical transcription business had become
unviable creating many white elephants in a mad race to drive down
prices.
Confirming that not all business is good business, Atul Kanwar,
managing director, global outsourcing operations, eFunds
International (India) says, "I believe it is not about winning just
any business. Today, the market has matured and the value
proposition needs to be balanced between both the customer and
vendor ends.''
"You can expect the pricing to move up. Bigger vendors are already
talking about some kind of volume commitments for a specified
time-period or volume of business,'' agrees Sunil Mehta,
vice-president, Nasscom. Maintaining quality standards is not easy
either, if you are offering services at rock-bottom prices, he
adds.
Though prices are yet to see a big jump, but at least the bigger
vendors are refusing to undercut beyond a point. Getting contracts
from global bigwigs have obviously not proved enough. Quality would
soon start slipping if they are not making moolah, vendors and
their consultant seem to agree.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...how/1013279.cms
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...279,curpg-2.cms
3) Acusis Donates $600,000 to Global Links
Pittsburgh based Acusis(R), has donated $600,000 to Global Links, a
Pittsburgh nonprofit organization that recovers unused healthcare
supplies, equipment and furnishings for distribution to hospitals
and clinics in developing countries.
"This generous donation from Acusis moves us closer to securing a
much-needed, larger, warehouse and office space in Pittsburgh,"
said Kathleen Hower, executive director of Global Links. "By
combining our current warehouse in McKeesport and office space in
Bloomfield/Garfield, we will be able to realize far greater
operational efficiencies and opportunities for growth."
"Through careful cost containment and with the help of volunteers,
Global Links is able to translate an investment of $600,000 into an
average of $12 million worth of medical aid each year, which is a
20-fold return on investment. This demonstrates how contributions
to Global Links can make a tremendous difference in saving lives
every day. It is our hope that more local companies in our industry
get involved with this very important organization," said Bill
Benter, chairman, Acusis.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal...ViewId=3Dnews_=
view&newsId=3D20050113005289&newsLang=3Den
4) Clinix inks Pennsylvania contract
Clinix Medical Information Services has contracted to provide
billing software for Vasant Scribes Inc., a Pennsylvania company
that provides medical transcription, billing and marketing services
to health systems, hospitals, and physician practices in 18 states.
Based in Brentwood, ClinixMIS processes more than $500 million a
year in medical charges for medical billing companies and physician
practices throughout the United States. The company moved its
headquarters to Nashville from Paducah, Ky., two years ago.
Vasant Scribes has its offshore captive MT center at Hyderabad,
India.
http://www.bizjournals.com/nashvill...07/daily16.html
5) MedQuist releases a superior mobile dictation solution
MedQuist Inc. announced Protege(TM), its latest digital handheld
dictation solution, designed to create greater versatility for
physicians who need to dictate on the go. The Protege handheld unit
is a compact digital portable recorder that not only captures
patient demographics, but offers seamless integration with the
market's top-ranked dictation solutions, MedQuist's own DocQment
Enterprise Platform(TM) and DocQment(TM) Encore.
Protege is the only product of its kind to offer these unique
capabilities: one-button control for effortless dictation; a large
LCD for efficient status viewing; five user-defined demographic
fields; a barcode scanning option to capture demographics; and
software to map demographics to the appropriate data fields in
DocQment Enterprise Platform and DocQment Encore.
"The Protege is a technologically-advanced digital portable with
intuitive, user-friendly features," says Rob Johnson, product
manager. "Add to that its tight integration with MedQuist's
DocQment Enterprise Platform and DocQment Encore and its speech
recognition capabilities, and it becomes clear that this product
will fill a very valuable market niche. We're very excited about
its potential, and its users will be, too."
http://www.mysan.de/international/article38095.html
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