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Long-distance Transcription

September 15, 2004 - Review of Ophthalmology

SpectraMedi. This company offers the digital recorder or phone-in options.

“We archive transcripts for five years,” says Frank Kunnumpurath, SpectraMedi’s owner. “This allows doctors to search their transcripts for any key word. So if a physician wanted to see how many of a certain procedure he performed in a six-month period, the system can pull transcripts with that procedure in them.”

The company can also just keeps one note per patient that is constantly updated when new transcription arrives, rather than a different note for each visit. “Each one includes just a summary of the last visit,” Mr. Kunnumpurath says. “It then adds the notes and the date of the current visit.

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SpectraMedi rides the medical-transcription wave

September 3, 2004 - The Central New York Business Journal

SYRACUSE — The days when doctors and other medical professionals would use hand-written notes to record and convey information about patients’ health are rapidly fading away. Spectrum Software Solutions, Inc., through its SpectraMedi unit, is a fast-growing Syracuse based company that’s taking advantage of the trend toward utilizing hightech, medical-transcription services.

Medical transcription involves converting medical records dictated by doctors and others into data that can be sent to a transcriber anywhere in the world, who then types it up. The material transcribed includes patient history and physical reports, clinic and office notes, operative reports, discharge summaries, letters, psychiatric evaluations, laboratory reports, X-ray results, pathology reports, and other medical records. These transcribed records are used for archives, reference, or for legal proof of medical advice.

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Spectrum Solutions does a little of everything

January 16, 2004 - The Central New York Business Journal

What does the company do? : It provides information-technology (IT) and medical-transcription services.

On the IT side, the company provides on-site human resources for software-application development. When on-site assistance is cost prohibitive and the job can be done remotely, the company also provides software services from experts in a business in India, which is owned by Kunnumpurath’s other family members.....

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Foreign Competition: A Two-Way Street

A good medical transcriptionist is hard to find, says Frank Kunnumpurath, who has hired about 200 of them during the past three years.

Typing a doctor's hastily recorded notes requires familiarity with medical conditions and procedures. Hospitals and medical offices want the work done quickly. They expect meticulous attention to detail. But they don't want to pay a lot. Facing a shortage of suitable workers in this country, the solution for Kunnumpurath has been to hire medical transcriptionists in India.

His Salina-based company, Spectrum Software Solutions, added a medical transcription subsidiary three years ago that now has 170 clients and more than $2 million a year in sales.

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SpectraMedi Is Front Page News

Syracuse Web Link to India

When a doctor at Internist Associates of Central New York dictates notes about a patient, the words are converted to data, encrypted and sent some 8,000 miles across telephone lines and undersea cables to southern India. ....

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BROOKTROUT TECHNOLOGIES PARTNERS WITH SPECTRAMEDI

Brooktrout Inc., Needham, MA has announced the selection of SpectraMedi to evaluate and develop dictation applications using their new product "RealComm 100 Software Developers Kit." 

As a participant in this program, SpectraMedi will be granted exclusive features and privileges including a high degree of focused technical and development support. Specifically, SpectraMedi will incorporate the award-winning software into the enhancement and new version of its present phone-in dictation and voice recognition system. 

This cooperative program is the result of over two years of team effort by both parties to create new efficiencies using customized software solutions.

Founded in 1984, Brooktrout has taken a leadership position by offering core technologies that marry the telephone to the data network. Brooktrout approached SpectraMedi due to its leadership role in technology solutions in the medical transcription arena. .

Olympus & SpectraMedi Team-Up to Develop 'EasyPlay'
An Exceptional Digital Player for Medical Transcription

EasyPlay took six months to develop and test and has a launch date of October 31, 2001

Olympus of Tokyo, Japan has partnered with SpectraMedi to provide software components enabling the integration of their DS-3000 hand-held digital voice recorder with the medical transcription company's new versatile digital player called EasyPlay.

The DS-3000 works with Windows Me, and features 330 minutes of digital dictation on a 16M MB SmartMedia card.

SpectraMedi will continue to provide and support the use of the UHER DH10 handheld digital recorders.