gosh -- it's been over a decade since I've heard of anyone being sued ....
Posted By: dandelion on 2009-08-08
In Reply to: ANYONE ELSE BEING SUED BY TRANSTECH MEDICALFOR POSTING ON THIS BOARD?? - gourdpainter
I could understand if they wanted to fire people who they felt were bad actors or had bad atttitudes, but I've never understood how/why they'd sue individuals for expressing their opinion -- unless they could prove that there was deliberate misrepresentation going on --- and I personally cannot imagine why anyone would try to make any MT company look artificially worse -- so many have such real problems -- like overstaffing, crappy platforms, lousy supervisors, crazy-making QA departments -- endlessly -- and so on
I remember when I first started with a national years ago (not TT) and discovering that they had sued MTs for posting over at MT Daily -- I couldn't imagine why they'd bother. Even then there was more competition for really good workers (who might chose to work elsewhere based on some internet postings) than there seems to be these days ...
What a waste! Better they all clean up their practices and spend the money doing some employee satisfaction polling ...
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I've only heard of Intellitype. Never heard of Teletype.
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Go back to your STM or over his or her head.
I've been a QA 15 years and I've never heard
of any company only paying for the actual Keystrokes of the blank. You would literally make less than minimum wage that way. Waaay less.
EMR has been around for over a decade...
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I've always heard...sm
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I've always heard it used
as in jockeying for position, as in jones'n around to strike the first blow in a cat fight.
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Wow! Ridiculous! I've heard it all now.
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Here's a company I've never heard of ...
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I've heard of the same problems with others, which is probably one
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I've recently heard about
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Hmmm - now where've I heard THAT before?
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I've never heard of this company.
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Like I said, I'll take my decade of first-hand knowledge of her over
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"A major development took place in February 2006 when Burlington-Massachusetts-based Nuance Communications announced that it would acquire Dictaphone in a cash deal worth $357 million. In a news release Nuance Chairman and CEO Paul Ricci commented on the acquisition, which was completed by the end of March, stating: 'The combined resources, experience and talents of Nuance and Dictaphone will help accelerate the adoption of speech recognition to eliminate most manual transcription for healthcare in North America this decade, delivering over $5 billion in savings to care facilities and transcription service organizations.'
Under new parentage, Dictaphone was named a division of Nuance--the Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions division--and Schwager was named its president.
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Never heard of them. I've been in the industry 30 years.
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I've heard it is worse now, using their own software
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And it sure as hel* doesn't hurt to let the general public know either!
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I've heard good things about both...sm
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