VoiceSoft launches home-based MT training program

Yogita Kasture

NAGPUR: VoiceSoft School of Medical Transcription has launched supposedly

India's first online home-based medical transcription (MT) training program

whereby one can pursue the entire MT training module sitting at home.

A transcriptionist, with the help of the program, could work from a hospital,

a clinic or a production center according to his convenience if he had a PC and

the necessary hardware provided by VoiceSoft.

The package costs Rs 30,000 but its features allow a person to rope in as

many friends who can pay a combined fee to undertake the training.

Shashank Joshi, director of the project, said the study materials provided

along with the training program include text data and voice data.

An extensive study done by medical transcriptionists, managers, editors, and

service owners had helped in building the program curriculum, said an official

spokesperson. It could teach students the basic skills required for the

profession, like typing, grammar, anatomy, physiology, medical word building,

abbreviation, Latin plurals and medical specialties. The course also included

extensive practicals on real diction.

The launch of the Nagpur operations was part of Pune-based VoiceSoft's

strategy to set up training and production franchises across Maharashtra, Joshi

said. They had already appointed franchise at Kolhapur, Sangli, Satara, Solapur,

Pune, Latur, Osmanagabad, Amravati, Akola, and Gondia.

The company also planned to invest Rs 2.5 crore for a call center in Pune to

cater to the US and Singapore markets by the end of March 2002.