Seminar on Setting Up an MT Business , a Resounding Success Raymond Eruma Medical Transcription Industry Association of the Philippines, Inc. www.mtiapi.com The Medical Transcription Industry Association of the Philippines, Inc. (MTIAPI) successfully held its two day Seminar on How to Set up a Medical Transcription Business in the Philippines – Laying the Basic Foundation of a Complicated Outsourcing Business”, last January 25-26, 2007 at Philippine Trade Training Center, Pasay City. The event was organized by MTIAPI in partnership with Philippine Trade Training Center of the Department of Trade and Industry. Adhering to its commitment to promote the industry through advocacy, MTIAPI spearheaded the event in its objective to educate and provide the participants with factual information on the important facets of MT operations and guide them as they venture in this field of outsourcing business. The seminar generated fifty seven (57) participants from various parts of Davao, Cebu, Bicol, Mindanao, CALABARZON and the National Capital Region. Relevant concerns such as HIPAA, Recruitment/Training, IT Infrastructure, Marketing and Curriculum Development and Training were some the topics presented by acknowledged industry practitioners. Among the resource speakers who shared their expertise include MTIAPI President Myla Rose Reyes (Total Transcription Solutions), Ms. Josephine Gonzalez (SPi), Ms. Evelyn Abat (People Support), Mr. Juanloz Botor (Textswitch, Unlimited, Inc.), Mr. Michael Chua (Transkripsyo, Inc.), Ms. Clarissa Caventa (Total Transcription Solutions), Mr. Juan Ramon Garcia (E-Scribir), Ms. Joane Rodrigo (Dictation Source, Inc.) , Ms. Sally Turado (STU, Inc.) and Mr. Raymond Eruma (MTIAPI). The all-out sharing of the featured speakers’ views and practices were taken by the participants with much appreciation. The participants were also given a glimpse of actual MT business operations to cap the two day activity. SPi, Escribir and Edata were among the companies visited by the group. Ms. Crystel Villamora, one of the participants expressed her views about the seminar. “I would like to congratulate you all for the job well done, that was really impressive, i mean your teamwork and everything. Most especially those speakers who were able to surpass pressures with remarkable grace from our very inquisitive and somehow too confronting questions as practitioners themselves as they are. They were able to represent their respective company with such pride, honor, integrity and prestige of course being the pioneer in the industry.” According to Ms. Myla Rose Reyes, MTIAPI President, the association recognizes the importance of this exercise since it provides an avenue to give a more accurate picture about the MT industry and its prospects to the general public. She added that MTIAPI has already lined up several activities to complement this undertaking. Participants attentively listened to the nitty gritty details of setting up and running an MT production facility An open forum at the end of every topic provided the participants a chance to interact and throw in their questions to the speakers.