It was my assumption that there was more than one
Posted By: position to fill. sm on 2006-05-17
In Reply to: Congrats! :) I wish they had at least NM - Just Me
Did you try contacting them? I guess it doesn't matter now since you have already taken a job but I was just curious.
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Too much assumption going on here
we're just having a conversation about MT week, what should we ignore it? We are MTs and we're talking about MT week. We're not asking for the world here. I don't understand this underlying hostility re this subject.
WRONG ASSUMPTION!
 Looks like there are more unhappy MDI transcriptionists than you thought! Your assumption that I am JMO is TOTALLY INCORRECT, and I’m not even sure who JMO is. Nevertheless, I think it’s pretty funny how you all actually believe that there are only a handful of transcrptionists who are unhappy with MDI. Maybe MDI should consider the fact that they are NOT so PERFECT after all.
I know, I know, now everyone is going to say "no company is perfect" but believe me when I say on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the best, they are about a 3. The only real thing MDI has going for them is the fact that the pay is always on time.
Your wrong assumption
You are assuming I was talking to you? I was not. I was not even talking about MDI at all and JMO works for the Transcend side of things. 
Wrong assumption
It is a wrong assumption to think that outsourcing medical transcription is more expensive or delivers less quality than in-house transcription.
While we know MTs that work in the hospital setting tend to make a little less, the hospital pays much more for their benefits, their retirement, the space to keep their work, their IT, their systems, their workers compensation, their unemployment, and their education. As a matter of fact, if you ask a typical hospital nonprofessional (and, yes, MTs - we are unfortunately still considered to be in this category) - They still work at the hospital because of the "benefits," which are usually significant.
On average, a medical institution can expect to see a 40% savings to outsource. The benefits don't stop there.
HIPAA issues are significantly easier to deal with. An outsourcing company signs an agreement to keep all the medical records information secure and within HIPAA compliance from start to finish, taking ownership of the responsibility from the hospital for the transcription portion of the medical file. This also decreases not only cost but liability.
The assumption that the medical transcription done from an outsourcing company is not as good is inaccurate as well. Ask any MT recruiter hiring for a full-time acute care position as a home-based MT which one they would hire: An MT who has experience typing for a national for 3 years, or an MT who has been typing at the hospital for 5 years. Of course we know the answer - they'll take both, right! But, if they HAD to pick - It would be the MT who has the 3 years of experience with the national. Why?
Hospital MTs will get better feedback from the physicians, be able to correct the reports to his or her standards, but all in all, at-home MTs have to be more flexible, know more terminology, and are more adaptable. Most at-home MTs are also required to have some kind of acute-care experience or education. Most hospital MTs can be hired without that prior experience.
Regarding fixing our abysmal situation with the lower line rates and lack of professionalism, etc., I am afraid you're looking to the wrong place for salvation, if you're looking to the medical profession, and the associations, and the hospitals to come to your rescue. Unfortunately, most doctors feel like those of us who work at home are barely qualified to help our children with their homework, much less handle anything regarding medical transcription, but rest assured, they feel that way about everyone except themselves. The HIM directors and owners of the hospital care about one thing - their own pocketbook, and how much money they will save. Individually, they can be all be wonderful people. As a group, they are collectively concerned with nothing but saving money to add to their own quarterly bonus. Nurses and paraprofessionals working at the hospital barely understand the concept of outsourcing, how we do our work, and what challenges we face, but understand that they are much more wrapped up in the monumental challenges they face with their own professions, which honestly probably pale to ours.
And, that’s a fact.
Oh no, ASSumption again?? How clever--NOT.
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I wouldn't make that assumption...
It might not be that the poster is using her time unwisely, it could simply be she has drawn the proverbial short straw and has nothing but horrid dictators who probably shouldn't be in a voice recognition program.
I love the Escription program too and never had a problem with it, but I was sufficiently lucky to have a pretty decent group of dictators whose style of dictating worked well within the voice recognition system.
I don't think all MTs have such luxury, though.
I'm giving the poster the benefit of the doubt on this one...If I'm wrong, you're perfectly welcome to say you were right, Janet :-).
I wouldn't be so quick to make that assumption.
Administrations change, some contracts post date that event. People forget.
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