The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), announced $1 million in funding for Prudential Consulting Inc. to establish an operating division in Atlantic Canada, a move which would help develop a medical transcription industry across the region.

The project would get funding support that would diversify and strengthen the region's economy and create up to 200 jobs across Atlantic Canada.

Prudential Consulting Inc. would train medical transcriptionists and provide transcription services to the medical community across the country. Medical transcriptionists ensure reports from healthcare professionals, doctors and specialists are typed correctly so they can be accurately documented in a patient's file.

Vikram Khurana, Chief Executive Officer, Prudential Consulting Inc. is optimistic about this venture and said that it would increase trained medical transcriptionists which would reduce the time taken for medical health records to be received by physicians, thereby improving patient care throughout the region.
It is expected that some of these medical transcriptionists would work through a remote workstation network, enabling them to work from home via a secure, high-speed internet connection.