A few weeks ago I posted about not being paid at T.S.I and I thought I was the only one who was not receiving my pay. Since that time I am absolutely shocked at how many MTs work their fingers to the bone and then come here and post that they have not been paid. I cannot believe it. One company after another. What in the world are these companies thinking?? I truly believe you get in life what you put into it and if these people continue to take advantage of us then they will get it right back in some way.
Hey, don't u love that I have to abbreviate her name so the moderator wont remove it?! So instead of protecting others from getting scammed this website likes to protect the scammer. Incredible
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May 10, 2006
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Bangalore Meet - A NASSCOM - AAMT initiative
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Dear Friends,
There has arisen a few misconceptions about the above meet, I'll try to
clear them:
1. NASSCOM India ITES-BPO Strategy Summit 2006, will hold a workshop on
Medical Transcription Outsourcing - Opportunities and Challenges -
in association with AAMT.
http://www.nasscom.org/eventdetails.asp?id=486&head_id=1101
This is scheduled and is going to take place. MTIndia.org is not taking
registrations for this event. To register for the NASSCOM meet, please click
on the link above. The early bird discount is until May 15th.
2. What is being proposed, is to have another meet at Bangalore specifically
directed towards practitioner MTs and invite Peter Preziosi, Executive
Director, AAMT to participate in that event. They main agenda would be
directed at discussing the future of medical transcription as a career
prospect. Please note that this is not an alternative event being planned to
the NASSCOM meet, but one with a different perspective altogether. This is
the one we are running a survey for. Organizing this meet will entirely
depend on the response and enthusiasm from practitioner MTs in participating
in such a career prospect meet with the Executive Director of AAMT. The
response to the survey until now has been essentially from outstation MTs.
Unfortunately, it will turn out to be a logistic nightmare to hold an event
of this stature at Bangalore, if participants are essentially from
outstation.
So friends, I am keeping the survey open until this weekend. The date June
8th, between 6-8 pm (could be postponed by an hour).
Registration fees will be Rs. 200.
Please send an email to survey@mtindia.org , if you are interested in
participating. Please enclose the following details about yourself:
Name:
Company Name:
City:
Suggestions: (Keep it brief, please)
And Bangalore MTs, you do need to wake up and participate in the survey.
Without a good response, this event just doesn't happen.
Ciao!
Dr Amit Chatterjee, SM
Strategist / Founder ~ mailto:amit@mtindia.org
MT India ~ www.mtindia.org
The Community of MT Professionals
It takes years to become an overnight success! Inch by inch, it's
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1) Firm's focus is growth, Manor Care CEO tells shareholders, to exit
medical-transcription
Meanwhile, the company issued a federal layoff notice this week that it will
idle 102 workers in its Heartland Information Services medical-transcription
unit. Seven employees are in Toledo. A company spokesman said the cuts will
occur in early July.
The firm had announced it would be getting out of that five-year-old
business and took a $7 million accounting charge in the first quarter. I
worked my heart out for this company, said Mary Kirkpatrick, of Rockford,
Mich., who got a layoff notice. How many more jobs are [we] going to lose
to India or China?
However, Mr. Ormond said the firm's transcription business started in India,
and the company tried to bring it to the United States but it wasn't
profitable.
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060510/BUSINESS03/605100344
2) Spheris Hires Chief Financial Officer
Spheris, announced the hiring of Brian P. Callahan as its chief financial
officer. After an extensive search, we are extremely pleased to announce
the hiring of Brian Callahan as Spheris' chief financial officer, said
Steven E. Simpson, Spheris president and CEO. I am confident Brian's
experience and expertise in financial management, particularly as it relates
to operational support and capital markets, will add tremendous value to our
company.
Callahan brings with him more than 20 years of financial management
experience. Prior to joining Spheris, he served as executive vice president
and chief financial officer of Murray, Inc., headquartered in Brentwood,
Tenn. He has also held CFO and executive-level finance positions with Miller
Industries/RoadOne, Procter & Gamble and Georgia Pacific.
Spheris is headquartered in Franklin, Tenn., with major operations in St.
Petersburg, Fla.; Sterling, Va.; Milpitas, Calif.; Bangalore, India; and
Coimbatore, India.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060503/clw098.html?.v=12
3) Targeting Health Records: Arrendale Associates Utilizes Web To Improve
Medical Transcription Service
The management team at Arrendale Associates Inc., a software firm located in
suburban Charlotte, believes it has developed a means to enhance the medical
transcription business over the Internet - and through international
outsourcing.
AAI has developed a proprietary word processor and tools for medical
transcription along with custom work flow solutions that meet a particular
need in the industry, allow for outsourcing while remaining HIPAA
compliant, management told WRAL Local Tech Wire in a recent Q&A, and
delivering products and services over the Internet for ease of deployment,
support and use by physicians, nurses, clinicians and medical
transcriptionists.
http://www.localtechwire.com/article.cfm?u=13917
4) Leading Community Health Systems Hospitals Select Dictaphone PowerScribe
from Nuance
At Easton Hospital, radiologists, radiation therapy doctors and
cardiologists deliver a significantly more timely report by eliminating a
number of steps in the process including transcription. PowerScribe converts
physician dictation automatically into text and presents it onscreen for
review, correction, and electronic signature. The solution, which leverages
Nuance's award-winning Dragon(TM) NaturallySpeaking(R) technology, goes
beyond transcription efficiencies and actually reduces radiologists'
dictation time by offering the ability to create templates and report
Normals for frequent and recurring studies.
Staff radiologist Dr. Stuart Jones has been using speech recognition
technology off and on over the past 15 years, making him one of the true
pioneers of this innovative technology. Selecting PowerScribe was really a
no-brainer -- it's so far superior to other options. said Dr. Jones.
People worry about the accuracy of speech recognition technology, but
interestingly enough the technology makes the same type of mistakes that
regular transcriptionists make, only far fewer. The technology has become
very intelligent.
http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=1335829
5) Help wanted for Philippines outsourcing
Has outsourcing to the Philippines already hit a human-resource barrier?
There are growing indications that something may be amiss in the country's
fastest-growing industry.
Never before has Philippine labor had such negotiating power. Call center
recruits are now being offered signing bonuses before they start work.
Employees are given bonuses for finding new recruits - more often than not
poached from other call centers.
Still, call center managers complain about the lack of workers who are able
to speak American English. For the Philippines, which suffers perennially
from crushingly high unemployment rates, currently at 8% according to a
recent official survey, unmet labor demand is a new and unfamiliar problem.
The future of the industry is clearly at stake. ITES or cyberservices are
certainly the future of the Philippines, said Henry Schumacher, executive
director of the European Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines. But that
will not work unless you have English as a communicating base, and we have
seen over the last maybe 10 years that the English speaking capability [of
Filipinos] has declined. English was always one of the [Philippines']
competitive advantages.
Danilo Cruz, under secretary of the government's Department of Labor and
Employment, added, We used to be the third-largest English-speaking nation,
but call centers and medical transcription firms have failed to hire 100,000
[workers] they expected to employ in 2005.
Carol Dominguez, president and chief executive officer of the John Clements
Consultants, a human resources and executive search consulting company,
described the emerging skilled labor shortage as a national emergency.
It may come as a surprise that spoken English is actually in decline in the
Philippines, given that the country is a former American colony known for
its enthusiastic embrace of US fast food and pop culture. Manila-based
experts said that many factors had contributed to the recent national
decline in English language proficiency.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/HE10Ae02.html
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downing TT all the time on this board, that's who I am. I stated facts in my post. Just because someone (or we as stated) went to Vegas, this poster was furious. Well, it stated in the email it was a BUSINESS trip, and like I said, is management supposed to sit on their duff and hope work comes their way, or should they actively pursue it? I don't call it talking down to the poster.
as to whether they have enough work for everyone who is climbing aboard, or if most people just work part time for them. Perhaps MDI is not a place for people looking for full-time work? I have heard of their wonderful reputation and I realize that when one is an IC, one must take the slow times in stride. 
For all of you QA people out there wondering where the jobs are, that's your answer. I wish these companies could cross-check with their competitors to match names, they'd be really surprised at what is going on out there.
I know this is a dumb question, but I am considering testing for them. So, when you are sick or want to take off, you schedule it with your supervisor right? Then, it goes unpaid right? Are they pretty flexible regarding time off?
I guess if I need a vacation, I would need to save up money for it. How does it work for you?
AFter reading some posts regarding being taken advantage of and being treated like an IC by companies when its convenient for them and being an employee when its convenient for them, I must wholeheartedly agree. Therefore I decided to do some research and came up with rules as given by the US department of Labor regarding the definition of an IC. You will be surprised by what you read below. This is just an excerpt of a longer report. Perhaps next time a client tries to boss you around, you might want to show them this:
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