SPI - Medical Transcription Company Employs Workers with Disabilities

Outsourcing Company Extends Opportunity to Disabled Workers

SPI Employs Visually Impaired Medical Transcriptionists

Mysore, India (July 3, 2009) Earlier in the week, Inspinity, a wholly-owned subsidiary of offshore outsourcing business Software Paradigms International, (SPI) officially welcomed eleven visually impaired workers to its medical transcription team.

The effort marked the Atlanta IT and BPO firm's first step toward diversifying its workforce with the talents of special needs employees and was initiated through its Corporate Social Responsibility program, an effort through which employees give back to their community.

"This is exciting news for SPI and Inspinity, and it will be the first of many efforts geared toward recruiting disabled people with specialized strengths, such as listening," said Madhukar Venkataramiah, SVP of Operations in India. "We know that we have an opportunity that not all businesses have, and since our team is equipped and capable of bringing on visually impaired employees, we're honored that we're able to do so."

The new hires were inducted onto the Inspinity team following completion of an 18-month, onsite training, for which they qualified after earning degrees in Computer Applications through a three year program at JSS Polytechnic for the Physically Handicapped.

Since becoming officially employed with Inspinity, the transcriptionists have performed the same duties as other team members, but gain additional, visual assistance by utilizing JAWS (Job Access With Speech), a screen reader that provides users with access to information through interactive text-to-speech and Braille displays.

"We think that it's important that all companies recognize the ways that they can give back," said Inspinity and SPI CEO, Sid Mookerji. "Looking at what we do, we recognized that we have many listening-based positions and thought that medical transcription work could be a natural fit for people with visual impairments. We evaluated our internal conditions and capitalized on the situation. It's been a great move so far, and there will hopefully be many more of these initiatives in the future."

About Inspinity

Inspinity, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Software Paradigms International, is Atlanta's leading provider of medical transcription, medical billing and financial and accounting services. Founded in 2008, Inspinity's business process outsourcing solutions enable companies to re-focus on core business strengths through its accurate and reliable back office and data processing services.

About SPI

SPI is an offshore outsourcing company that reduces the cost of IT delivery through its application development and maintenance, system support and consulting services. The company has an offshore development center in Mysore, India and delivers solutions for enterprises within the retail, healthcare, finance and manufacturing verticals.