Sten-Tel is bringing all of their offshore work back in to USA. Per the client's wishes! nm

• Companies that offshore - Please list them in subject line
  • CBay transcribes all work in India. Has some US editors but also has Indian editors. - Ohio MT
  • SPI outsources and Medical Bazaar does too. nm - SPIer
  • CORTIMEDICAL HAS CLIENTS THAT DO LIKE FOCUS INFOMATICS - Beware!
    • CorT is a client of Focus actually. sm - Actuality
  • TRANZ EMR - OFFSHORE
  • Focus Infomatics - OFFSHORE
  • Ascend, almost all the Sten-Tel franchises, Spheris, Transdyne - nm
    • Sten-Tel is bringing all of their offshore work back in to USA. Per the client's wishes! nm - Reality.
  • TSI does - alamomt
  • Heartland Information Services - nm
  • Diskriter off off offshores - and on some hospital accounts - they have not informed the hospital - no name
    • How would you know the hospital doesn't know?? sm - Current Diskriter MT
    • yeah - they haven't told a couple of hospitals that they are offshoring their work - but I think - agree
      • I think one of the hospitals is onto them about offshoring their work - ooops
  • JLG does - good luck
    • Do you have proof that JLG outsources offshore? If so, please email the Administrator. - Thank you. Administrator (sm)
    • INTELLITYPE OFFSHORES - Birdie
      • I actually heard it was the Phillipines and not India....That came from... - lilworried
        • When people refer to offshoring, don't they mean the Phillippines as well as India? - txmt
          • uhm......i was responding to what was in her post when said they outsourced to India. - lilworried
          • oops - typing police where are you. I meant Philippines - txmt
        • INTELLITYPE - Birdie
      • ha!!! I knew it. I QA'd a few reports and every common phrase was wrong. - lilworried
  • Voice Systems - PLH
    • Is this the Voice Systems in Georgia? nm - G-girl
      • Sure is - nm
  • Acusis - nm
  • Do NOT work as editor here, do NOT work here at all! - ! OSI OFFSHORES !
  • PRECYSE SOLUTIONS (no message inside) - exPS
    • they certainly do - me
  • MedQuist and Spheris both offshore. - Busy MT'ing

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Could not find any recent posts about Sten-Tel. Before I accept the job offer I would like to hear from anyone who might be working for this company. Thanks for any information!

I've sent in several requests for more work, and I just am not getting the lines I need.  I love the company but I have bills to pay.  Problem is, I'm a newbie (less than 2 years, anyhow).  So I was just wondering if anyone else is running into this, or if you have advice on how to get around it?

TIA

Hi SC.  First of all, let me say good luck to you in your quest for a raise at your present job.  I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you. 

My personal experience is that in the 20 or so years that I've been in this industry I've never received a raise from the MT service at which I was employed at the time that I asked for the raise.  Either they hemmed and hawed or just ignored my request altogether.  (Let me specifically state that my work experience has been comprised of both MTSO's and nationals.)  My solution, unfortunately, has always been that when I got to the point that I felt my increased skill and experience along with the cost-of-living merited it, I moved on to the next service.  The new service/national would always offer me a significantly higher line rate.  Ironically, I've been with my present employer for about 2-1/2 years of so.  I emailed my supe about the possibility of a raise about a year ago ... and never received a response ...

Hopefully others will be able to present a more positive experience in this area.

for all of you.  May all of you have the best of fortune and not lose your jobs to some foreign country, have abundant work and may there be a chicken in every pot.   After all, this IS America.  United we stand, divided we fall.

that states that China will be taking over the USA in 2039....hopefully, by that time, I'll be dead!  *LOL* but not really laughing.

And this might not mean much, but I note that the fortune cookies given out by Chinese restaurants in the SE USA now are educating us all to their alphabet and numbers; in other words, their language! 

Many years ago, when I worked in house for a local clinic, we had a Transcriptionist who had just graduated from a medical transcription course (I believe it was through the local community college since this was back in the early 1990s), and everytime this gal came across something she didn't know, she would ask the other transcriptionist or I how to spell it.  I truly think sometimes one of the BIGGEST problems is the fact that nowadays, people are not taught the proper way to spell or even how to research for that matter; for example not realizing that a spelling with an f sound could be spelled with a ph or Pf et cetra.

One classic example was a few years ago, and I was doing QA for a company and this company hired a friend of mine an older lady, who had decided to go into medical transcription and had completed a course.  Well, the company hired her on my recommendation and she called me one day, very upset and saying that she had received another email from a QA person, whom she felt was picking on her.  I asked her what the error was about and she stated that it was over the word chem as in chem-7 (which as an aside, I have NEVER abbreviated; always spelled it out as chemistry-7)  -- well anyway, my friend had typed it as Kem-7, so while I was on the phone with her I made her do a search, and what she came upon with the first hit was some rock band in a foreign country!!!!  This, is what I and older, more experienced transcriptionists get angry about is the fact that many people if they use the internet to do a search will use the first thing that comes to mind, rather than tryng to spell it several different ways to see if it fits in the PROPER context.  Sorry for this being too long.

The thing with eTransPlus was not a good fit for me either.  I think it is probably a good company, it just didn't work for me as my start date kept getting pushed back, I was running out of work, there were program glitches, etc.  Sometimes some things are just not meant to be.  I hope you get on with Keystrokes again.  I know it sounds kind of gushy, but I have found them to be truly wonderful people.  I don't need someone to constantly sing my praises or anything -- decent pay and plenty of work is enough -- but it is kind of nice to hear thank you every now and then, and know that if you have a problem arise, someone will listen and try to help you. 

Again, thanks for posting -- great to hear from you!  Good luck! 

I worked for MDI.  I loved MDI.  I have always known D to be someone of yes, integrity.  I don't believe her integrity flew out the window.  There is surely a lot we don't know.  And of course, D would not have been at liberty to discuss the coming merger before it happened.

D is a businesswoman.  The purpose of a business is to generate income.  She ran her company with honesty and integrity.  I can't say I wasn't suprised, shocked even, at what has happened.  But I have known D since the early 90s and I know she is a good person and truly cares about people.  I don't know how to reconcile that with what has happened other than to think there is more to the story than we know and that it is the decision that D needed to make at this time for whatever reason, whether it be to ensure a secure retirement, whether it was because she was no longer able to compete with offshoring and VR (I think this may be part of it because she had told me at one time they were having to cut line rates to compete with VR and offshoring) or whether she was just tired and ready to not be the one at the helm any longer.  Maybe it's her health, or her husband's health.  We just don't know. 

This whole thing does make me afraid for the future of medical transcription, because another thought I had was that D saw the writing on the wall and knew it was either make the leap now and profit from all her years of hard work, or end up losing it all when transcription becomes obsolete for the most part, or at least for those who don't use VR or offshoring.

Whatever the reasons, I choose to believe that D is still the person of integrity I have always known her to be.  I just choose to accept that there must be more to the story than I know.

I wish the best to D and to all MDIers.  I feel like an era has come to a close and it will never be the same again.  But I feel lucky to have been a part of Signal and MDI and to have known D.

I feel like we are on the Titanic and we just saw D either jump to safety or jump into shark-infested waters, we don't know which, and we don't know whether we should jump or cling to the boat - because MDI was the last lifeboat and now it's gone.

I just got off the phone with someone from Precyse and they have terrible communication and no flexibility.  She kept IMing another lady to ask questions.  Had to check with another person to see if I could do Monday through Friday.  Made it sound like she would really have to do some fancy talking to get that.  I had put in my info that I wanted to work from 6 am to 12 pm and she just read that as she was talking to me and said there was no way.  Told her that I am capable of doing full time line requirement in those hours and she said there had to be the hourly coverage there.

I was just not impressed at all.  She really did not seem like she knew what was going on, could have been a little more prepared for an interview.  I just wasted 10 minutes of my time! 

Sugestion - when MTs complain their account is too hard. Instead of giving them something easier and pushing hard work on more experience Mts, assign the complainer exclusively to hard account until they are competent. Only way to be fair to distribute. Everyplace I work the complainers get the easy accounts.