Unrealistic view that a lot of MTs do not understand. The offshore companies sm

• To the MTSO who posted - C-msg
  • I edit Indian work and it's pretty bad - no way could you send it in to a hospital
  • Offshore solution sm - Hmmmmm.
    • I am not the MT police, but sometimes I wish - the client would give me a "chose" too!
    • Sorry, C-smg, I didn't see your post. GMTA. nm - Hmmmmm.
  • There are clients out there who do not agree with "offshoring" and want only USA and will pay - Smaller MTSO
  • Unrealistic view that a lot of MTs do not understand. The offshore companies sm - MTSO2
    • I do understand your position. We live in a Wal-Mart world. Some days I wonder why I bother - C-msg
    • My personal opinion is MEDICAL RECORDS as we know them will not be around in 3 years. - The electronic chart is what coders will use.
      • Totally disagree with your statement - Milton's Red Stapler
      • In a litigious society such as ours, medical sm - ICme
      • are you nuts? Documentation is not going to - amazed
  • Fine, You try telling your clients that and let us - .
    • So you believe offering 2 options to clients is impossible? It's pretty cut and - C-msg
      • Make everyone admit offshore is a fact. sm - Get that elephant.
    • Sad but true ... - CMT-me
      • Right on! - MTness
        • our kids will have to learns skills such as - mechanic or hairdresser
        • Excellent post MTness - She's a Dandy
          • would you be... - MTness
            • Tell me more. - She's a Dandy
              • to - She's a Dandy - MTness
                • Science...MTness - She's a Dandy
      • I wish the majority of sheeple in this country would wake up and - C-msg
        • Sheeple is good. I usually refer to them as lemmings. - nm
        • Sheeple!!! LOL - I agree. I wonder if Germany outsources it citizens work out of the country. - NM
        • Sheeple - MoodyJen

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advertising, with multiple ads no less, when they obviously do not have enough work.  To me, this seems somewhat like false advertising.  This has not happened to me personally, but I would sure be po'd if it did. 

To all of you who have had this happen, hang in there!

from main board:

MTStars has been staunchly against the offshoring of American Private Health Information, but realizes that MTStars must evolve with the ever changing views of conducting business in the global economy. The hands of time cannot be turned back on the widespread transfer of information globally and as of January 1, 2006, MTStars opened itself up to include the global environment.

For anyone wanting to keep the work in the USA!!!!!

AMPHION

AXOLOTL

ENCOMPASS

FAST CHART

KEYSTROKES*

LANDMARK

ORACLE (OTI)

SILENT TYPE

SOFTSCRIPT

TRANSFORM

TRANSHEALTH

TRANSTECH

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WEBMEDX*

ZYLOMED

Are there any companies that pay a good line rate and are good to there MTs that do not offshore there work?  I am trying to help a friend looking for part time work, but she is staying clear of those that offshore..

Any help would be appreciated.

If not, can we list them here?  I'm tired of getting laid off or not having enough work from companies who're sending work to India. 

If you know of a company that doesn't offshore, it would also be nice if you could say whether or not they require VR.

Thanks in advance to anyone who participates -- we're all in this together!   

http://www.angelfire.com/mt2/transcription/medical_transcription_services.htm

Notice AlphaBest is on there and she SWEARS she does not  send work to India.  I worked there and i knew she did but she refused to admit it even though it is in writin now.

If you had any other job and didn't meet the expectations of your employer you would be terminated.  What makes this job any different? 

May of 2008 is when they went live with their SR program.  They hired a bunch of the QA people that were fired from Focus in their shake up in early May.  They hired everyone in at hourly pay because the SR supervisor told mangement that there would be a learning curve for the SR engine.  In other words, the QA people hired at the beginning would be teaching the SR engine by making corrections to the reports typed by the SR software.  We were basically transcribing entire reports in an effort to teach the engine.

Within two weeks of starting the program, JLG management was crying about losing money because they were paying us hourly and we weren't producing where they thought we should be.  The supervisor again tried to explain to them that as the SR engine began to learn, our production would increase significantly because we would need to make fewer corrections.  This shut them up briefly.  Then they began to cry again and said all SR people need to be paid on production even though they had contracts with each and every one of us stating we were to be paid hourly.  So the decision was made to put everyone but the team leads on production. 

Still JLG management wasn't satisfied because they weren't lining their pockets well enough or quick enough.  They kept pushing and the SR supervisor turned in her resignation.  They in turn told her she was terminated as of that day instead of letting her work her final two weeks.  They then cut her off completely and told her to not have contact with any of us.  Within a week of her departure, the team leads were then contacted and told they had to go on production as well.

Still not satisfied, management began to scrutinize each SR editor, putting some on 100% QA and bombarding them with email, making them feel as though every move they made was being watched.  It was a very stressful situation.  Management played games such as cutting off work so there was no work in the SR queue for anyone or putting in some phantom editor who was doing SR at a rate three times faster then the rest of the SR team.

Some of us were producing upwards of 3000 lines a day on SR and still were made to feel it was not enough and if we were producing enough, then our quality was called into question.

Now this.  Now they just pull the plug.  We put our blood, sweat, and tears into making SR work for JLG and they have had no intentions of letting work --> well at least one person specifically had no intentions of letting it work.

So there is the sad saga of the JLG SR fiasco.

You have to admit when doctors say stuff they don't necessarily say/spell it right.  It's your job to do so, and that includes producing a readable, understandable report that is uniform with those that are in use in whatever facility it goes to.  If everybody did things their own way imagine what a mish-mosh of things would wind up in a patient's chart, not to  mention there would probably be no end to made-up things or things inserted because it seems to fit.   

I wrote a letter to Hillary Clinton today, and I also wrote one to Mitt Romney.  I am also going to write ANOTHER letter to the Editor as soon as I can compose my thoughts.  Just think, if we ALL did this someone might say, well what's up with all this? and maybe we would eventually see a change.  This didn't happen overnight and it won't change overnight.  And it certainly won't change at all if everybody just sits around and complains.  Strength in numbers, they say, and I'm sure we MTs are a large one. 

And I would type 40, three refills, I believe that's what the BOS says.  I don't see it as particularly rebellious on your part. 

On the other side of the coin, yes, being a newbie there was difficult because they threw so much at me at once, so many specialties, over 100 physicians all at once on a verbatim account.  Yes, I did get e-mails where I had to go back and point out to QA where they were contradicting the account specifics.  They had too much to handle.

BUT -- and this is a HUGE BUT -- I left there knowing so many specialties precisely because I got it all dumped on me at once and it had better be right.  It was not a job, it was more like a school and I was being paid a little bit for doing the work. 

Where I am now, no matter what they give me I can do it.  I've had experience in almost every specialty, close to 30 or more.  I've learned to push and push and not give up and take advantage of the overload to better myself.  My Stedman's books are loose from the covers at this point.  I don't think any school could be harder than OSi because of the pressure, the exposure to so much all at once, and you HAVE to do it as fast as you can because for me at least it was my only income.  Sometimes the worst experiences pay off the best in the end.  But as of the time that I left which was not that long ago, I would not advise a newbie to go there unless they had another source of income and could afford to get fired.  They are VERY strict.  I won't even go into the line counting debate.