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ABS-CBNNEWS.COM reports the latest trend among medical transcription companies in the Phillipines is to provide Technical Education and Skills Development Authority or TESDA-certified medical transcription courses to enhance the quality of experts in the country and improve its competitiveness in securing more outsourcing opportunities from the call center industry.
“TESDA certification gives a benchmark or standard level of excellence. Certification is the first step of ensuring quality and assures the people enrolled in the courses that they have the facilities available to them and that the company is not a fly-by-night operation. After all, people will spend five months of training on these courses and they would spend money,” said e-Scribir president Johnny Garcia during the inauguration of the company’s TESDA-certified medical transcription course.
As an attorney who no longer practices traditional law but has spent the past decade as a mediator helping people resolve disputes both within and outside of the legal system, I have many colleagues in the bar who are committed to these kind of innovations in the practice of law and the resolution of disputes. Many are outspoken advocates of these new ways of thinking and work to transform and reinvigorate the practice of law.
Many of them strive to illuminate for the legal profession as well as the public the art and creativity within the practice of law and to help attorneys reclaim the dignity and meaning in what is still an honorable profession.
You may hear “Verdict on American Lawyers” in a number of formats at the On Point web site and judge for yourself.
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Why I will not be observing One Day Blog Silence
No day of silence on April 30 at this blogBy now many of you, including those living outside the U.S., have heard of the murder this week of 32 students and faculty at Virginia Tech by a lone gunman, a Virginia Tech student who turned the gun on himself and died also. It was the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
Outsourcing Consolidation Wave
Forbes.com reports the business-process outsourcing sector is in the midst of a consolidation wave.
“The most important factor in a BPO acquisition is scale,” says Brad Smith, vice president of research at Kennedy Information. Because BPO is a low-margin, process-driven business, transaction volume is a crucial determinant of profitability–particularly in the finance, accounting and human resource spaces, which Smith says are likely to see the most consolidation activity.
“Unless you’re a fantastic niche player, you’re going to have a tough time surviving in today’s BPO market,” says Atul Vashistha, chief executive of NeoIT, an offshore advisory firm. “Customers have a lot of choices so they can say they won’t trust a small startup company.”
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Offshore Outsourcing Healthcare
InfoWorld reports healthcare organizations not considering offshore outsourcing are missing out on significant cost savings, but administrators need to be aware of potential risks, including lax handling of data security by some vendors and the effect on employee morale.