Control Operating Costs: The most important tactical reason for outsourcing is to reduce and control operating costs. Companies that try to do everything on their own incur higher expense in research, development, marketing and deployment. Access to the offshore provider's lower cost structure, is clearly and simply one of the most compelling tactical reasons for outsourcing.

Improve Company Focus: Outsourcing lets the company focus on broader issues while leaving operational details to an outside expert. For many companies, the single most compelling reason for outsourcing is that several of the "how" type of issues are siphoning off huge amounts of management's time and attention. Too often, the resolution of these issues are stuck in middle management "decision grid". This creates financial and opportunity costs that affect the organization's future.

Access to World Class Capabilities: The world class capabilities of VIS is a result of extensive investments in technology, methodologies, and people over a considerable period of time. VIS's capabilities include specialized industry expertise gained through working with many clients facing similar challenges.

Share Risks: Outsourcing is a vehicle for sharing risks across many companies. Outsourcing providers make investments not on behalf of just one company, but on behalf of their many clients. By sharing these investments, the risks borne by any single company are significantly reduced. The result is that when companies outsource they become more flexible, more dynamic, and better able to change themselves to meet the changing opportunities.

Improve Production and Eliminate Backlogs: Increased productivity - more forms or documents get processed in less time outside the company facility thereby allowing corporate energy to focus on core functions.

Immediate Access to Information: By providing the best way to process and store documents it becomes seamless to have nearly instantaneous access to all stored documents from any desktop.

Expert Professional Staff: The senior management of VIS boasts of a combined experience of over five years in medical transcription and data processing and have gained this experience by serving as an outsource vendor for processing thousands of medical documents since 1999. In addition, the company staff is comprised of highly skilled workers who supervise data as it is being processed.

Accuracy: Because VIS specializes in systems which contain strict quality controls, utmost data accuracy is preserved. We not only employ computerized validation routines, but our trained staff supervises the information processing at all levels ensuring quality and accuracy.

Efficiency: VIS boasts a quick turnaround time from as few as two hours to within 24 hours for recurrent clients, without sacrificing integrity or accuracy.

Convenience: Our professional staff is on hand to consult with you and answer your data questions at any time. And information may be transmitted to VIS's offices by fax, modem, Internet, FTP or through our toll free lines.

Additional benefits:

 
Convenient and simple to implement
 
Flexible & Secure
 
Reduce or eliminate storage needs.
 
Better morale - workers are used in higher skill capacities, which increase self-esteem.
 
Elimination, reduction or repositioning of data entry personnel.
 
Increased productivity- more forms / documents get processed in less time

Major benefits can be calculated in terms of organizational responsiveness and not just cost savings. In other words, redefinition of jobs, plus better use of people and corporate resources are very likely to play a greater role in the decision to outsource the data, forms and document processing. The benefit of outsourcing is field tested and proven. Few service bureaus can compete with the quality and turnaround time of VIS.