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Arrests Made In Indian Black Market Medical Records Investigation
November 12, 2009 10:30 AM by Jay Vance

The Daily Mail Online is reporting today that two arrests have been made and an arrest warrant is out on a third suspect in the case of confidential health records being offered for sale to undercover journalists. Vikas Dhairyashil Bansode, the head of Read More...

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Indian Business Consultant Says U.S. Largely Responsible For Demand For Black Market Medical Records
November 3, 2009 3:23 AM by Jay Vance

From Na Vijayashankar ("Naavi") at www.naavi.org comes a strong response to the Indian black market medical records scandal in general and the resulting comments by Webmedx CEO Sean Carroll in particular (emphases mine): "To put the incident in the proper Read More...

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Medical Transcription Service Provider Webmedx Reacts To Indian Black Market Medical Records Scandal
October 28, 2009 1:14 PM by Jay Vance

From PRNewswire.com comes a press release from Webmedx, fourth-largest U.S. medical transcription service provider: Atlanta-based Webmedx , the fourth largest medical transcription company in the World, cites the news of black market sales of medical Read More...

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Offshore Medical Transcription Training In Barbados Experiences High Failure Rate
October 20, 2009 11:10 AM by Jay Vance

From the Nation News in Barbados: The majority of Barbadian workers who underwent one year of Government-sponsored training in the medical transcription field, were put on the breadline because they were performing below the required standard of work. Read More...

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Potential Offshore Outsourcing Catastrophe - Medical Records For Sale In India
October 19, 2009 7:47 AM by Jay Vance

According to articles in The Economic Times and The Daily Mail , an undercover investigation by Britain's ITV1 television program "Tonight" has revealed that medical records of UK citizens are available for purchase from Indian black marketeers. Quoting Read More...

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