Article is from 12/04/05 edition of Nashville Medical News
Posted By: presley on 2005-12-04
In Reply to: Article in local paper about Spheris and outsourcing to India - presley
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SPI is a company out of the Philippines with an office in Nashville. Formerly Med-Type in Nashville
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Any more news about QT Medical?
Are they still going under? Can't get any information out of the office staff - only that work is kinda slow right now. The only info I've gotten so far is what I've read on these boards. I'd appreciate an update if anybody has heard anything new. Thanks!
Any news on Sound Medical
Anyone heard of Sound Medical Transcription, good or bad? amj
Follow the AAMT BOS 3rd edition. sm
Most companies want you to test following the AAMT guidelines. If you do it that way, you should be safe and score well.
BTW: q.day is a forbidden abbreviation, expand out to daily or every day.
Book of Style 2nd Edition
This says without the apostrophe is preferred but that the apostrophe is acceptable if that is what's dictated and/or the client wants it that way.
I only have the home edition of XP, but I was able to take the test just now. sm
I do have the pro version of Microsoft Office, and I do already have WordScript on my computer . I hope I have not done all of this for nothing. 
No news is good news for me. I check my audited reports all the time
If I need to talk with one of them, I call or IM them. But, no, I have learned that if I am doing a good job, they leave you alone to do your work. They are not in any way a company that micromanages as long as you do what you are supposed to. If you give them a reason to think you are not doing what you are supposed to be doing, they will keep an eye out on your work, etc.
I thought no news is good news, too. Then got email about
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No news is good news! If there's a problem, they'll
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I guess no news is good news! :-)
Thanks anyway!
If no news is good news why is a person
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I agree - no news is good news - sm
They are busy making sure you have work and want you to stay productive and busy. What is there to talk about? I personally like being left alone to do my work. As long as you get a check and the work keeps flowing, just do your thing! 
Is this news should have been labeled NEWS ALERT ...
This is breathtaking information and everyone who works at TT or is considering has the right to know. It will be buried with a title like is this news? It seems as if you are responding to the first poster's complaint of no work.
MQ Nashville
I heard Leslie was promoted to regional manager? Who is the office manager there now? Jerry still the tech?
Nashville MT--Please SM RE M. Turner
Martha was killed Monday evening in a car wreck. I thought this was something you might want to know.
I'm with the Nashville office...
I haven't really heard anything good or bad about them. I've searched but came up with nothing. I'm hoping that's a good sign since the bad ones seem to come up a lot. Which office are you with?
Does anyone work for DTS out of Nashville?
Would love to hear any opinions/comments on this company. I tested with them recently and will be re-testing again soon. Thanks,
RT
I thought TRS was in Nashville. sm
I know of a TSLLC in NC. I know I wanted to work at TRS at one point, also.
AaMT - Nashville, TN
Does anybody know what is up with this company? I started with them and there has not been any work on their system for a week now. They were a part of Synthescribe. If anybody works for them please let me know what is going on! Thanks!
Does Medquist still have an office in Nashville? Does
anyone know what the plans are for that location?
Hi there, I worked out of Nashville, too. I have been switched around SM
between several CSCs due to closings. This one seems okay, at least the office staff is friendly.
I work for the Nashville office...
I do acute care work. I had less than two years' experience when I was hired. I tested for clinic work but they asked me if I'd be willing to do acute care even though I had no experience with it. I have no idea if 0.825 cpl is a good hiring rate. I was coming from a company that only paid 0.065 cpl so it was better than what I was making.
C.C.
Any info on DTS America out of Nashville
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Excuse me, my co's IT dept is in Nashville and sm
Seattle. Don't say that the majority has IT support out of India, because it's not true. Even Spheris (with a large presence in India) does IT out of Franklin, TN.
Philippine company with an office in Nashville
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Sometimes.....NO news is Good news. sm
Maybe you are doing just fine and everything is correct. Maybe they do no feel you need feedback because your quality is excellent!!
Good thought for the day :-) !!
good news and bad news ----
Good - plenty of work, just landed a new acct.
Bad - Check posts from a few weeks back. Out of the blue, everyone got a huge pay cut.
RE:Sure is and the gal out of Nashville that runs it is a rather dishonest person - to boot. nm TNMT
Even the long time Cymed recruiter jumped and went to another Nashville company.
i'm totally amazed they are still running but i feel an implosion any day now.
article
Rochester Business Journal - August or Sept 2005. And it wasn't all 15 years ago.... charges still pending in 1999 -- but read the article for accurate information on the convictions and judge for yourself.
I saw that article too
They pay their MTs the equivalent of about $135/month US, which for the year is more than 3 times their national average of about $500/year US. My electric bill is over $135/month.
Here is the article
http://www.ajc.com/search/content/business/stories/2008/05/25/ga100transcend.html
If they delete this link, email me; I have the article saved.
Very interesting article.
Sadly, the wave of the future, I suppose. I'm glad to see some of the transcriptionists spoke up, but unfortunately, people who don't understand transcription are always the ones making the decisions! Thanks again for sharing.
This was a great article.
Thanks.
did any other HISers see this article? sm
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060408/BUSINESS03/604080390
I saw the article...AND the CEO's pay. Yowza. nm
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Interesting article
In 2003, Indian employees, who were working on medical records for Ohio’s Heartland Information Services, threatened to release confidential records unless they received a cash payoff from the company.
http://blj.ucdavis.edu/article/604/#_ftn60
It's a slightly old article -
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Right. That's what the article said, basically.
That all correct English is the same, wherever the country:
English in India may have a British hangover but by no means is it vastly different from American English or any other correct English for that matter.
She expects Indians working for American countries to have excellent English ... like hers. If only our visitor could write like that, we wouldn't be appalled.
what article?.....and why would I be disappointed?
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i looked at the article...
and it still does not clear up the line count issue for me at all. : (
Can you link this article?
I am interested in reading this and how they came up with their figures. I QA Indian reports, and maybe 5% of the MTs could pass a quality audit at 98%. I wonder what kind of guidelines they are using to get this 99% figure.
It is definitely going to India....big article
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Do you have Link to article? nm
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Here is the article - they do offshore
and seem mighty proud about it. LG states that about 15% of the work is outsourced to India (that was in May, 2008 - number more likely 35% by now), but that the clients are in the U.S. That was a strange quote, IMO.
http://www.ajc.com/search/content/business/stories/2008/05/25/ga100transcend.html
If this link disappears, email me. I saved the article.
Good article.
That's right — the Franchise Tax Board and IRS come after you and, at the very least,
disallow your related business deductions.
Yikes, only one more reason not to work for the companies that treat their ICs like employees.
Link to article
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_12022094
Can't bring up the article - could you cut and paste - sm
it so that we could read it??
Thanks
What is the storyline title to the article?
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Toledo Blade article....let us know on here
if it gets published..I'm down in Lima and can pick up a copy..would love to see it..I know I can read it online but I would rather see it in the paper down here. Good Luck!
According to the article posted, one of the proposed
Am I googling correctly, that Nuance is affiliated with both Dragon (speech recognition) and Focus Infomatics (Indian??).
So, if Philips sells to Nuance, what are the implications? Does Focus have American MT's?
I know these are scary questions and purely speculative at this point.
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