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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 fastgrowing Syracuse-based company that's taking advantage of the trend toward utilizing high-tech, medical-transcniption 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.

Medical transcription has become more sophisticated over the years, graduating from the use of simple tape-recorders to various hand-held recorders such as the Pocket PC and the Olympus digital recorder, as well as advanced phone-in systems.

Frank and Ancy Kunnumpurath, natives of India, founded Spectrum Software Solutions in 1997 and the SpectraMedi division in 1999. By the end of its first year, SpectraMedi generated about $100,000 in sales. This year, SpectraMedi expects to reach $3 million in revenue and more than $100,000 in profit, which was last year's total.

"We've seen tremendous, exponential growth," says, Frank Kunnumpurath, coowner of the company, along with his wife.

SpectraMedi's customers include specialty medical practices, family doctors, and hospital departments. Central New York clients include: Internist Associates of CNY, CNY Family Care, Colon Rectal Associates of CNY, Family Medicine Services Group, Loretto Health & Rehabilitation CTR, Orthopedic Medical Service Group, the Onondaga County Health Department's Bureau of Disease Control, Oswego County Opportunities, and Vivian Teal Howard Health Center. But 95 percent of its customers are outside the Syracuse area, Kunnumpurath says.

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