ecare India Pvt. Ltd., the leading medical billing service provider, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, celebrated the “World Environment Day 2010” & “World Blood Donation Day” on June 5th in association with Jeevan Charitable Trust at ecare India’s office premises.

As a part of the celebration, team ecare wore green clothes, caps and ribbons and took oath to spread awareness about the environment, possible ways to save our mother earth including but not limited to Planting Saplings, reduced use of paper at Office and home, reusing plastic bottles, wise use of electricity and fuel resources, shift to alternative resources as and when possible, avoid polybags usage, collection of Trash and Garbage from public places etc.

For the year 2010, in line with the theme 'Many Species. One Planet. One Future', this year’s events will celebrate the incredible diversity of life on Earth as part of the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity.

World Blood Donation Day – Token of love for mankind

The “World Blood Donation Day” is celebrated worldwide on June 14. As an added initiative towards Social Welfare and as a celebration for “ World Blood Donation Day”, ecare India had organised the Blood Donation Camp on June 5th, on its premises from 10.30am to 5.30pm. This program had been intended to increase the awareness among the public on “importance of blood for the needy” and promote the value of “sharing blood”. ecare Employees actively participated in the blood donation camp. Each participant had taken oath to “make earth a safer place to live”.

Speaking on the special joint celebration of the ‘world environment day and the world blood donation day’, Mr. Deepak Sanghi, the Managing Director, ecare india Pvt Ltd said “It’s our moral responsibility to take care of mother nature, conserve natural resources and protect the planet by using less and acting more and that is what each ecare employee is committed to do”. “Each one of us should highlight resources, initiatives and methods that promote low carbon economies and lifestyle such as: improved energy efficiency, alternative energy sources, forest conservation and eco-friendly consumption, Moreover, this blood donation drive is an initiative that ecare India has taken to save lives” added Deepak.

About ecare :

ecare India is a leading healthcare outsourcing service provider that offers end-end medical billing solutions. Ecare is also an ISO 9001:2008 company and the first Indian Medical Billing company to obtain ISO 27001:2005 certification. ecare does 24x7 offshore services enabling focus on clients’ practices and transformation into high performance businesses.

About Jeevan :

Jeevan blood bank and research center started on 24th September 1995 with the vision of providing, on demand, safe blood and blood components collected from non- re numerated voluntary blood donors using appropriate and current technologies and in accordance to international standards.

Jeevan is a non- profit community blood bank situated in Chennai, India and managed by a board of trustees. Jeevan has collected over 85,000 blood donations and made available over 160,000 units of safe blood components to the community.

2010 Medicare Physician fee schedule final rule correction has been published on 05/18/2010. As per retroactive provisions under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the final fee schedule is effective for services furnished since January 1st, 2010 through December 31st, 2010. Florida Medicare has published the revised fee schedule and the link to download the same can be found below

http://medicare.fcso.com/Fee_news/index.asp

ecare India, a Premier Healthcare outsourcing company that focuses on medical billing and coding services to healthcare industry announced that it has been certified with ISO 27001:2005 for information security management. In fact, ecare India the first Indian Medical Billing company to get certified under ISO 27001:2005 at the time of certification in July 2009.

Conforming to the ISO guidelines, ecare India is committed and continuously thrives to provide high levels of efficiency and quality service to its customers. As part of the compliance, an internal audit team conducts regular internal audits to identify any non-conformity in procedures or documentation. These internal audits are meant to identify errors in processes or procedures thus helps company to continuously monitor our performance and make the best decision.

Commenting on the Benefits which ecare can leverage to its customers, Deepak Sanghi, MD, ecare India said “We have always been pro-active in addressing the needs of our Clients. As security and handling of data being sent offshore for processing is a major concern and point of discussion in the US, ecare's ISO 27001 certification addresses this concern and provides greater confidence to the companies in the US to do business with us”

Earlier Company was certified with ISO9001:2005 which also has been renewed with ISO 9001: 2008 certification later last year, which is the most established quality framework and benchmark for Quality management System.

About ISO and ISO Certification :

International Standards Organization (ISO) is an institution recognized worldwide as an authority for quality management. ISO seeks to establish standards for quality and organization of information and management systems. It outlines a process approach for implementing a quality management system and lays down the good management practices. With an aim to enable businesses to transact globally, it helps to standardize the way businesses are run and ensures all the requirements in processes and systems are met.

ISO 9001

ISO 9001 is one of the most established quality frameworks worldwide and sets the standard for quality management systems. It helps organization to identify the best processes for delivering quality services to customers and helps in improving the way organizations are operated and managed.

ISO 27001

These standards provide good practice guidance on designing, implementing and auditing Information Security Management Systems to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information. It is designed to ensure the selection of adequate and proportionate security controls that protect information assets and give confidence to interested parties. The Information Security Systems are reviewed and monitored on an on-going basis to ensure continual good practices.

About ecare India :

ecare India is one of the leading and experienced outsourcing service providers in the medical billing filed. Its wide spectrum of services includes Revenue cycle management, Medical coding services, Accounts receivable management, Credentialing, Eligibility benefits, indexing and data conversion.

ecare India provides flawless high quality end-to-end billing solutions for all major medical processes. The services are customized to the needs of Physician Practices, Large Physician Groups and Medical Billing Companies who can outsource their medical billing process to ecare India and use the time and effort saved to focus on their business and patients without any apprehensions. ecare India is one of the few medical Billing companies to be certified with ISO 9001:2008 for its processes and quality management and was the first Medical Billing company to be certified with ISO 27001:2005 for its information security management systems.

Please visit www.ecareIndia.com or write to us on info@ecareIndia.com for detailed information.