March 2014 Edition

Welcome to the first edition of .

Like the magical lens of the Kaleidoscope, our Wall Mag is where you can showcase

your ingenuity.

In this issue we are featuring an amusing journal, poems in English and Kannada, a

beautiful painting, photographs, and a humor corner to tickle your funny bone.

There is also a technical paper on ‘Future of Medical Transcription’.

We would like to thank all the people who helped us; Abhilash and Rosh for their

ideas and inputs, Anupama for driving us (up the wall ), Vani for her creative

touch, team members Chandrika and Radha. As for Arun, we missed you.

Above all, thanks to our contributors for chipping in to help us develop what we

hope will be a beautiful and lively magazine.

And to all of you, for making it real!! ...Enjoy

Please feel free to mail (wallmag.kaleidoscope@acusis.com) us your comments on the articles and to share your thoughts.

Thanks,

Rishma, on behalf of the team

CONTENTS

1. Technical Writeup – The Future of Medical Transcription

2. Poetry

a. Straight from the Heart

b. Where are You?

c. Bhavanegalu Padagaladagha (Kannada)

3. Journal – Opium Dairies

4. Photographs

a. Great Tibetian Dadima

b. Sitarist, Anoushka Shankar

5. Painting

The Future of Medical Transcription

Being associated with the medical

transcription industry for a

significant amount of time, you

must be aware of the innumerable

debates on the future, as this is one

of the fastest growing sectors in the

healthcare industry.

Ever since healthcare reforms were

announced by President Obama

and $19.2 billion USD allotted for

healthcare IT, medical transcription

started to gain prominence.

Especially with digitization influencing our life and with significant growth in the

number of Baby Boomers reaching the retirement age, Bureau of Labor Statistics rightly

projects excellent job opportunities and growth of the industry by almost 11% through

2018.

Unrelenting demand for health documentation professionals would be steady with

more and more people of the country gradually turning grey. Three major trends

identified would influence the future of the medical transcription industry in the coming

years - the progress of the voice recognition software, EHR and new guidelines

monitored by the Department of Health and Human Service, and lastly, outsourcing of

transcription functions.

Voice Recognition Software

When the speech recognition software was introduced, doomsayers were proved wrong

and instead a demand for the medical transcription editor to edit the software

generated documents was created.

Electronic Health Records (EHR)

With the introduction of the EHR and its meaningful uses, as

defined by the Department of Health and Human Service, the

need of a standardized format was highly felt. The traditional

narrative method of transcription in a word document would

not be treated as a part of the ‘structured data’. With the

introduction of software, the future looks promising indeed.

Outsourcing

Considerable amounts of outsourcing have been noticed in

the industry with secure data transmission of healthcare

information electronically. However, an adequate amount of

editing is required to make them accurate, and hence the

demand for well trained professionals is on the rise.

In summary, the future looks promising for the medical transcription industry and the

demand will remain strong in the years to come. Reliance on sophisticated transcription

solutions will help optimize workload along with additional features for enhanced

marketability and better management of business operations.

‘My sight’ in this vast space

Travels only in straight lines.

Obstructed by lot many things -

Living, dead or never born.

A taller man in the front row – the stage,

Mountains – the sight of horizon,

Woods - the lake,

Roses in the garden – Insects

(And the perspectives of an entomologist in me),

Water – the riverbed,

Moon – several galaxies,

Idols – the GOD,

My own eyelids – everything else!

Yet I see right into the bottom of your heart.

Because a straight line exists

Heart to heart, through our eyes –

Unobstructed by

The opacity of the flush.

- Abhilash UA

OPIUM DAIRIES Dated: April 11, 1997

My first encounter with Bubblies

When I opened the casing, they were waiting for me. I knew how eager each one of them was to come to me. What more to ask for?

To me they looked cute and also enchanting in their green, amber, and transparent outfits. I saw them being bubbly and cool.

I kept wandering….will they be sweet or not?!

I could wait no more, they were really tempting…

Thup…

I poured my very first beer into the glass and took that chilling sip of a lifetime… Woooooooo

And that’s how amazingly I have gained my entry pass into the heaven of Bubblies and spirits.

Opium

Great Tibetian Dadima: She is the oldest resident at the Tibetan

Namdroling Monastery at Bylkuppe near Kushalnagar, Coorg.

- Photographed by Raghunath KM

Sitarist Anoushka Shankar, Daughter of Legend Pandit Ravi

Shankar, at a Sitar Recital in Bangalore.

- Photographed by Ranjith. E

- Painting by Abhilash U A