2) Bhutanese English language skills poor?

Subj: MTIndia Newsletter - Association for Integrity of Healthcare
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Date: 8/13/2006 11:31:45 PM Pacific Standard Time
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Aug 12, 2006
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Association for Integrity of Healthcare Documentation!

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Dear Friends,

It is official now - AAMT is going to be Association for Integrity
of Healthcare Documentation!

So CMT is CIHD? CHD?? Sounds more like a coronary disease :)

I quote from the press release:

Restructuring the organization to meet the evolving needs of
healthcare delivery was the turnkey issue faced by the American
Association for Medical Transcription's House of Delegates last
week at its 28th Annual Convention and Exposition in Boston. The
House of Delegates voted on August 2, 2006, to change the name of
the association to Association for Integrity of Healthcare
Documentation and open the membership up to a broader sector of
healthcare professionals involved in clinical documentation and
data capture.

"The greatest opportunities for improving health and healthcare lie
in enabling information exchange across healthcare facilities. By
broadening the scope of the association's mission, building
stronger alliances between clinical information specialists and
documentation experts, and promoting a new brand for the
association to our healthcare publics, we have a greater
opportunity for obtaining increased relevance in a transforming
marketplace." stated Peter Preziosi, PhD, CAE, Executive Director
of AAMT. "As we move forward to implement the reforms approved by
the House of Delegates, our primary focus is to figure out how to
insert the current skill set of the medical transcriptionist into a
clinical pathway that provides useable, relevant information at the
right time and right location in the health record to inform
clinical decision-making."

AAMT's board of directors and executive director challenged the
membership and leadership to consider a new vision for the
association and to embrace a new plan for restructuring the
organization in alignment with this vision. In addition, the AAMT
House of Delegates voted to open up its practitioner membership
category to all professionals who have a vested role and interest
in clinical documentation, with the goal of collaborating with
those stakeholder groups in setting a strategic course for the
future.

"Convincing an association, whose primary agenda has been meeting
the immediate needs of its practitioners, to shift its focus to the
broader industry was inarguably a challenging task," stated AAMT
2006 President Vallie Piloian, CMT, FAAMT. "A tremendous amount of
education was engaged in prior to these outcomes and will continue
to be embraced moving forward to help usher our members into the
future of healthcare delivery."


On another front take over of Cymed, by a Filipino MNC with an
existing Indian footprint, is a very significant development.

Ciao!

Dr Amit Chatterjee, SM
Strategist / Founder ~ mailto:amit@xxxxxxxxxxx
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) PLDT unit SPI acquires CyMed

PHILIPPINE Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), the country's
largest telecom company, said Friday that its unit ePLDT, through
SPI Technologies, Inc., has acquired 100 percent of CyMed Inc. for
$35 million inclusive of certain debts.

CyMed provides medical transcription services for more than 400
health-care systems across 49 states in the US and has been
recognized by numerous industry and community associations for
superior business operations and profitable growth.

The acquisition makes SPI the third largest company in the
outsourced medical transcription industry. Earlier, ePLDT acquired
SPI Technologies Inc. from SPI's sole shareholder, SPI Tech L.P,
for $135.34 million.

"The CyMed acquisition makes us fairly unique in the marketplace
with a balanced and deep pool of talent across our Centers of
Excellence in the US, Philippines and India. CyMed's significant US
presence will further strengthen our ability to deliver high
quality, high volume transcription services around the clock,
around the globe," Ernest L. Cu, SPI president and chief executive
officer, said. For his part, Robert Lynch, president and CEO of
Cymed, said the management team of his company is equally pleased
with the business combination.

Dave Woodrow, president and chief operating officer of SPI's
healthcare division, will lead the combined SPI-CyMed group, while
Lynch will join the SPI senior management team, but his position
has yet to be announced.

http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php?news=1649

2) Bhutanese English language skills poor?

That Bhutanese in general have good command over the English
language may be more myth than reality. At least that was the
experience of Bhutan Business Solutions, a private firm, which
wanted to employ at least 80 Bhutanese youths to start a medical
transcription service in the country.

Of more than 500 graduates and Class 12 students interviewed over
three months, only 39 got through the selection interview to train
for the job. "The interview itself was the most basic requirement,
which most candidates failed to fulfill," said the firm's
spokesperson and former business partner. Of the six partners, five
have reportedly pulled out. "The main thing here is that this
business is not a mechanised industry, it is entirely human
resource based," said the spokesperson. "It is labour intensive."
He said that the firm needed 80 people to start off with. They
would be trained for six months by professionals hired from India
to become certified medical transcriptionists who would be
recognised globally.

The chairperson and the managing director of Bhutan Steel
Industries limited, Damchae Dem, who is continuing with the
venture, said the interviews couldn't be easy given the high
standards required by C-Bay, a medical transcription centre based
in USA. According to the firm's spokesperson, C-Bay, USA gets the
transcription contracts from abroad and C-Bay, India, sets up the
transcription centres in India. C-Bay India would set up the
transcription centre in Bhutan.

http://www.kuenselonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7287

3) MedQuist Licenses Healthcare De-Identification Software

De-identification of medical records and reports is a critical
success factor in the creation of new quality reporting solutions
and the capacity for healthcare providers to conduct
population-based data mining. In support of these goals, MedQuist
Inc. announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement with
De-ID Data Corp. of Philadelphia. The agreement will foster
development of new medical data repository and reporting solutions
using DE-ID(TM) healthcare de-identification software, enabling
MedQuist to safely and securely import patient data from
participating customers. DE-ID provides MedQuist with a powerful
application to better serve its customers while still maintaining
the highest levels of data security.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-01-2006/0004407673&EDATE=

4) 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.

Advantages
* Corresponds intuitively to the physician's usual method of
working. Dictation remains the most intuitive and least
time-consuming means of data entry.

* Physicians can dictate anytime, anywhere using PDA, Dictaphone or
telephone at their convenience.

* Providers need not change the way they practice just to
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
EMR vendor.

* It requires minimal training for physicians.

* Provides expressive power to describe patient's condition and
other health related events

http://www.powerhomebiz.com/News/082006/medical.htm

5) DTS America gets another $500,000

Just days after reaching the goal of 101 employees on the payroll,
DTS America, the medical transcription service that started
training employees in Carlsbad about six months ago, came back to
council for another $500,000 and the request passed unanimously.

DTS is the first medical-transcription processing center in the
nation, and won't be the last, DTS Chief Executive Officer Doug
Hardwick told council Tuesday night. The first two classes of
trainees are at the on-the-job training level at the predicted
quantity and quality of work, Hardwick said. DTS jobs pay about $10
an hour with earning incentives for productivity.

The city had entered into a Job Creation Agreement with DTS at the
recommendation of Carlsbad's Department of Development. DTS wanted
$2 million to provide 200 medical transcription jobs for a minimum
of 5 years. The city agreed to $1 million up front and another
$500,000 upon reaching the goal of 101 full-time, Carlsbad
employees and the next $500,000 when the 151st person is on the
payroll. What surprised council was that DTS leaders themselves had
predicted it would take longer to get to the 101-employee level.

http://www.currentargus.com/ci_4154046
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