I work for Echo, and I really like it. SM
Posted By: Chickadee on 2006-11-30
In Reply to: Can anyone tell me which companies other than the big one hires MTs for DQS and how are they to work - LMT
We use DocQscribe. I use ShortHand with it, but there is a built-in Expander you could use if you don't have ShortHand.
Management and QA are very nice, pay is fair, work is good. Some ESL, but not many.
Employee position. Only bummer is that there are very limited benefits. I've worked for MQ, Spheris, and TransHealth. I prefer Echo hands down over any of the above companies. I don't know if they're hiring or not, but I'll link their website below.
Good luck!
Chickadee
LINK/URL: Echo Transcription in Georgia
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I believe Webmedx and Spheris pay hourly, but also almost always hire for QA from within. I don't know about TransHealth or Transolutions.
Echo Sten-Tel
I think this company may be in North Dakota. Has anyone worked for them? I am thinking of applying with them but would like a little information from present or former employees. Thanks!
Does Echo have a website? Thanks. nm
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It has never happened to me at Echo sm
I'm not sure how many different accounts they have, but I have never been switched around. I've learned new work types since working there (like OPs), but it is all part of the same account.
I've been very happy there. I have experience with MedQuist, Spheris, and TransHealth. I thought MQ was okay...I hated the other two. Everyone's experiences are different (some love the last two companies I mentioned), but I have been an Echo employee for almost 1 year, and I have to say that I really, really love it here.
If benefits are your top priority, you might not be too happy here. They do offer benefits, but they are pretty expensive. But they offer PTO (given at 1-year anniversary), sick time, and have a very generous incentive program. They also have much less ESL doctors than I had with those other 3 companies.
I hope you find what you're looking for. If you want to know more about Echo, you can e-mail me at any time.
Take care,
Chickadee
I really like Echo Transcription, Inc. SM
Good pay, really nice incentive plan, PTO, sick pay, great management, great QA feedback, small percentage of ESL docs, employee status. Only bad thing, though, is that health and dental insurance are expensive.
Good luck in your search!
Chickadee
ECHO EMPLOYEES? SM
Are they hiring? Do they use DQS? Wondering if you can tell me if they have any clinic work or will hire someone with hospital but no OPs experience? Cost and type of med. ins. for individual coverage? Thanks for any info!
Echo Transcription, DSG
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Has anyone heard of Echo Transcription Inc.? sm
Care to share your opinion and experience with them? I tested with them today. They seemed nice and friendly. The platform was pretty user friendly.
Is there plenty of work? Is the pay fair? Do they have benefits? Thanks...if I'm offered a position, I'll find out all these answers, but I'm just really curious.
Just Me 
Echo Transciption Inc. in Georgia SM
I really like it there a lot. We have tons of work, excellent feedback from QA, great boss to work for, good pay. I spot check their counts against my count on MSWord (characters with spaces divided by 25) from time to time, and it is always exactly the same or 1 line more on DocQScribe.
Their website is http://www.echoti.com.
Good luck!
Chickadee
Echo Transcription in Georgia does. NM
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echo transcription in georgia
Anyone had any experience with this company? Would like some feedback, as recently applied for a part-time employee status job there
Is Echo Transcription still associated with CBay? nm
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Thanks for all of your responses. You echo my intuition.
Thanks so much for your responses. I agree with you. I do have a roving eye, just in case, but that would be for any job in this economy. But, I love TT, and considering the fact that I am willing to put the work in to get up to speed, I really don't want to leave, at least not yet. Frying pan to fire, etc. TT has a lot of things besides what I mentioned that I can't put into words. I guess it is just a right fit and where I want to be... so unless things change really badly.. I want my job and I want to keep it! Thanks again everyone for your help.
Anyone here ever worked for Elite Global/Echo? sm
(In Georgia) How did you like it? I'd love to hear both good and bad.
Thanks in advance.
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I echo your experience! Said the very same thing to me, but I quit them first.
Good riddance! On to better things! :-)
I echo BTDT and left a few months ago. Don't bother. NM
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Speaking of CBay, do they still have Elite Global aka Echo affiliated with them? Just wondering..nm
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As a whole.. nice people to work for, decent benefits but the get off/on the system, work/no work,
is maddening. I couldnt pay my bills or even work the schedule I was assigned. They would ask us not to work until work built up in the evenings and I specifically wanted to work days as I have kids etc. It just didnt work out for me but to each his own. It just seems there has to be a better balance in this business that what is happening.
I did speak with my manager. Work was promised. No work there when I needed to work.
I see the reports everyday too, but when I get work it is of bad quality, then there is no work unless I work diffrent shifts. Thank you.
My liaison always says to work on secondary when primary is low on work/no work. n/m
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That's going to be nuts...I do ASR work too, plus work split shifts. We'll NEED a spread shee
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Work is easy, very nice owner, pays weekly, work in Word.
A majority of at-home MT is overflow work with in-house getting the bulk of the work. If they clean
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Pay is always on time, direct deposit, very nice management to work with, and DQS platform, work
load normally busy, but low now because of the summer slow down on my accounts. Sound an issue on some accounts, but not others. Overall, wonderful company.
That is a BIG problem at TransTech is leads assigning work, rather than letting the work flow
This TT MT just admitted to that fact. It has been very obvious, as so easy to tell how work comes into our que and then gets pulled out as fast as it came in and replaced with YUKKY dictators. VERY frustrating to us other TT MT's who take the JUNK that is NOT assigned to other MT's, such as this poster.
Ever thought of a home health care aide? Usually paid training and start work right away. Can work
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Absolutely not! I work for the best MTSO. I am have been so blessed to work for the small company I
I will share this about the MTSO I work for. I called her late last Wednesday night after Church and told her I was compelled to help out with Hurricaine Katrina in some way and an opportunity arose for a small group from my Church to go to Louisianna this coming week. Would she be able to cover my work. She told me no problem without any hesitation and even donated money for the trip.
And I am sure there are plenty of good companies out there to work for. To compare us to migrant workers is just not right.
It does work, you do not need to "make" it work.. it works in all word based programs.
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I did some overflow work for Landmark.. they are wonderful to work for.. very nice people.. pay was
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They have to be flexibility because of the erratic work flow. No sense in a schedule if no work..
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I was told Escription would not work with Vista. Turned out it wouldn't work with my sm
Office Basic Edition 2003 either, but no one could figure out why, it was supposed to.
There is actually a section on the Dell website that offers Windows XP. I haven't checked it out as I'm not in the market, so I don't know if it costs extra. I have a Dell and it's been fine for me. I hate the ESL tech department, but it seems like most of them have that now.
Yes they do send work overseas and do not hide this fact. There is plenty of work and they do pay
well. Overall, I like having work as I have been at places where you had to fight to keep busy so this works for me.
There is NO work at Transtech. Maybe they just choose special people to send work to
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Are you required to work major holdays at KS. I know nature of biz to work them. Thanks for info. nm
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Great people to work for, but I had to leave due to lack of work. Hopefully that has changed. SM
Most of us who do not live in California had to go IC. When I was there, they did not have statutory status, although they told me they did when they hired me. Their pay for VR is VERY low, not a living wage. Many of the folks in the office are ex-YOG and great to work for/with. Good luck.
1200 lines daily is great if you have the work, personally, I never had enough work so
I left and have NEVER been sorry!
Don't know about radiology work load, but we have been scratching in the dirt for work for a numb
of months now. They hire, lose account, hire again before new accounts comes onboard, then have overhired, having to put new MT's on the current low workload.
Medical field is 24/7 work unless you work for a clinic or stand alone operation.
I just look at the other cool people working holidays and weekends in the ICU, ER, paramedics,and am glad to be there. When you work in a hospital for a length of time, it becomes a necessary evil to show up at the worst possible times.
Having a family or a life you'd miss from Friday at 5 PM to Monday at 8 PM must be hard and
I think that there is a place for you where they can meet your requirements (M-F). There are plenty of those jobs.
They require that you work in house until your have clean QA for 3 paydays then you can work
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All nationals I work for you only work 40 hours unless they approve overtime.
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I'm part-time and don't have to work all weekend. I work Tues-Sat.
I've never heard that from Chronicle, of course I didn't see the ad.
The bid has nothing to do with consistancy of work. MTSO cannot control how cosistant work is.
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I'll love to know who you work for. I also work every weekend with no extra pay.
It'd be nice to get paid for all the nights and weekends I work.
Like I said - it depends who you work for. I work for a hospital at home - not a company. nm
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I know two people who work 3rd shift for Keystrokes on radiology and have a lot of work. Maybe you
on an account that has enough work. I hate to hear that someone doesn't have enough work or that they have a problem because I know that Keystrokes works to find the right account for every person. They do a lot for us but you have to talk to them until you find the right account or volume or hours for you.
I think that a lot of companies are that way but there is a lot of job-hopping in transcription. Everyone is looking for the perfect job but the grass is not always greener on the other side. There are a few MTSO's really are not good but for the most part, the others don't intentionally drive people away. That would not make sense. They need us to work as much as we need them to have the work there for us.
I work on it. Usual amount of work. Not running out but not backlogged either. They seem to have
about the right staffing on it. Hope that helps.
Maybe is it for a particular account. I work M-F. You are required to work one weekend an month.
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I used to work for a company who separated the MTs by work type daily. sm
regret ever leaving that company. we had a max of 4 MTs typing a large training hospital with clinics. i was assigned consults and discharges with consults being my priority. another MT had ops and admits, etc. it worked so much better. we were RARELY out of TAT and each of us were trained on other report types for backup in case someone need to take off. not to mention that we were easily able to learn the ESLs because we got them repeatively enough to learn them, set up templates, etc. much, much more productive for us as MTs, for the company as work flow, and i am sure for the dictator because they got someone who knew them and their dictations well enough to be accurate. i don't understand why large MTSOs cannot comprehend how much more beneficial that would be.
I actually left about a year ago and work for another company that's running out of work. Have to
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I so wholeheartedly agree with you. Don't work for KS but work for SS - another company bashed
Works GREAT for me and I love SS. I never really care what the negatives are as I have found they are usually people that can't make their lines, don't work the hours they commit to or just overall do not care!
don't like ASR/VSR -- all work going that direction -- causing very low work situation for awhile
Just a little message since you asked. Hardly any regular paid transcription work left for TT MT's (transcribing as in the old days, I am speaking of).
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