KG enters into medical transcription training

BANGALORE: KG Information Systems Pvt. Ltd. (KGISL) has tied up with Heartland Information Services for medical transcription operations. It is also planning to forge an alliance with a Detroit-based automotive company for offshore engineering and design services. KGISL director Ashok Bakthavathsalam said the services sector was set to undergo a change guided by trans-oceanic telecom links and the acceptance of outsourcing.

He said there was an entire set of offshore service industries waiting to be tapped from medical transcription to call-centre management, network consulting and management, back-office management, finance and accounting services, translation and localization, engineering design and human resource services, which his company wanted to address.

Mr. Bakthavathsalam said KGISL was into Internet software development, engineering design services, healthcare information management services and medical transcription, all of which were oriented towards the global markets.

He said KGISL has trained around 600 professionals in medical transcription and by December 1999, KGISL would have about 1,000 professionals either in production or training. He claimed that his company provided a full-time job opportunity to all candidates who successfully completed the 6-month training program. The company has plans to build a team of 5,000 medical transcriptionists by December 2001. To facilitate this, establishment of production centres in cities such as Madurai, Chennai, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram have been planned. A fee of around Rs 60,000 is charged for the medical transcription course and after completing the course, successful trainees could earn between Rs 5,000 and Rs 15,000 a month.