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Transcend Services Lays off 151 Employees in New Delhi.

2011-12-26T22:44:00.000-08:00

Another burst of bubble in the so called promising field of medical transcription. One of the oldest medical transcription offices in India has dropped the axe on its employees in New Delhi. Transcend services fired 151 employees of its acquired company Heartland Transcription in New Delhi without any prior intimation earlier this month. In a sudden change of events, the employees were

Indian BPO exempted from new IT security rules.

2011-09-04T11:00:00.000-07:00

After the angst expressed by the $14-billion Indian BPO industry over the new data protection rules this year, the government has finally relented. It has clarified that the new rules won't apply to outsourcing providers located in India. After Nasscom's submission, the government this week issued a clarification stating that BPOs located in India will be governed only by specific contracts

NASSCOM:- New IT rules will hurt BPOs

2011-06-06T22:25:00.000-07:00

The industry body for software and services companies has expressed its anger on the new IT rules 2011, notified by the government, saying they will adversely impact the $76-billion Indian IT-BPO industry.The rules will impact a large number of BPOs which collect credit card or financial information from companies and individuals in US or Europe on behalf of banks like UBS, Wachovia, Wells

Webmedx Named Best in KLAS and Ranked #1 Transcription Services Vendor for Second Year in a Row

2011-01-16T08:55:00.000-08:00

High Report Quality and Strong Technology Lead to Record Setting Performance by Third Largest, All-Domestic Documentation Solutions VendorATLANTA, Jan. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Webmedx, the third largest medical transcription service, speech recognition technology and intelligent clinical content provider in the U.S., today announced it has received the Best in KLAS Award for Transcription

Nuance Announces 2010 eScription Million Dollar Awards

2010-06-24T23:09:00.001-07:00

eScription Million Dollar Club Saves Healthcare Industry More Than $130M In Clinical Documentation Costs Nuance Communications, Inc. recently, from HFMA's 2010 ANI: Healthcare Finance Conference, announced its 2010 eScription Million Dollar Award recipients. This year 22 healthcare organizations are recognized for saving one million dollars or more on medical transcription costs as a result of

How to incorporate motivation into the MT work environment

2010-03-02T08:55:00.000-08:00

"Motivation leads to success, and most everything we do takes some measure of it to get us off the ground and running. You may not realize it, but even simple tasks as mundane as getting out of bed in the morning require a little planning, focus, and drive. You set your alarm, try desperately not to hit snooze a second (or third) time, and ultimately get the energy to rip yourself from under the

Dictate.it Announces Three New Contract Wins

2009-09-07T00:20:00.000-07:00

The UK`s leading supplier of digital dictation, speech recognition andoutsourced transcription services to the medical sector, Dictate.it, today announces three new contract wins, bringing the total number of NHS Trusts the company works with to 27, covering over 25,100 beds. Dictate.it`s patient digital dictation platform has been selected by Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Barking,

Knowledge Is Everything: A Call to Evolve

2009-08-04T06:46:00.000-07:00

Throughout 2009, the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) has been promoting the critical role that health care documentation specialists play in the accurate capture and documentation of patient encounter information. In light of our shifting economy, the evolution of enabling technologies (like the electronic health record [EHR] and speech recognition technology [SRT]), and

"FATAL CARE" About Some Deadly Hospital Errors.

2008-08-10T12:03:00.000-07:00

Errors cause 98,000 hospital deaths.A state police trooper currently stationed at the South Yarmouth barracks, John McCormack is accustomed to working within a chain of command and respecting authority.So when his 1-year-old daughter, Taylor, ended up at Children's Hospital Boston, he let the doctors take charge.It's a decision, McCormack says, he lived to

Medical Transcription Vendor Ratings..!!

2008-03-08T00:16:00.000-08:00

In the latest KLAS Medical Transcription Services Organization (MTSO) study, 3 years of provider ratings and commentary have come together to shed light on the current trends in transcription outsourcing. In the ever-changing world of transcription, the most recent MTSO study found an increase in provider satisfaction, adjustments in offshore vs. onshore attitudes and even more changes in

Do you read your medical records?

2007-12-05T23:03:00.000-08:00

One search for “Medical transcription errors” in Goggle and you won’t be surprised to see a few hundred results. We have read many of those bloopers even those exaggerated ones, wondering how typographical errors end up looking like those hilarious one-liners in a ‘mix-n-match’ game. Many of those “errors” have even found its way to humor sites and even forward mails which do get a good

And the Award goes to.. Spheris.

2007-11-21T05:43:00.000-08:00

Provista Awards Agreement to Spheris.Provista, one of the nation's leading group purchasing organizations, has awarded Spheris to be its first awarded supplier of medical transcription technology and services. Under the parties' agreement, Spheris will provide Provista customers with a full range of clinical documentation technologies in addition to industry-leading outsource services. Read

A story of transformation.

2007-08-28T05:01:00.000-07:00

This is for all of those who have hung up their diet plans and shoved their weighing machine under the couch. Dieting can be tough or even tougher to keep the weight off once you have lost it, but who says it's over and done? A weight-loss "surgery" always had our eyebrows doing synchronized question marks in our mind but not so much of a blur anymore. Approximately 140,000 Americans had

CBaySystems acquires AMSplus.

2007-08-16T05:15:00.000-07:00

AMSplus was acquired for a price of 12.5 USD in cash by CBaySystems, another acquisition highlighted this week. AMSplus will be merged to Mirrus Systems (CBay's US-based group company) and is expected to have an expansion in growth and opportunities based on customer base.

Philips’ Medispeech by SpeechMagic

2007-08-14T04:18:00.000-07:00

Now that’s another name in Speech Recognition making its way to Healthcare IT. One of the most advanced hospitals in Belgium, AZ Sint-Jan Hospital (900-bed) has chosen the technology and is in all smiles with a 60% decrease in waiting time for reports.MediSpeech identifies section headings in a dictated text and allocates each part of the report to the corresponding field in the hospital EMR

Welcome to WordSmith.

2007-03-19T03:51:00.000-07:00

Know more about your MTWordSmith. MTWordSmith is a blog with a Google Custom Search Engine for Medical Transcriptionists . A well-researched directory of medical resources. Why MTWordSmith? A Google search would give you more than a handful of results, leaving you searching for authenticity for your answer among this heap of results. Save your time with the MTWordSmith search engine which