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there are NOT plenty of companies who don't outsource, directly or indirectly.

Posted By: mqmt on 2005-08-01
In Reply to: You idiot, there are plenty of jobs with companies that DON'T offshore. Go somewhere else and - sm

as for you calling others "idiots" your credibility is gone.  hope you are careful where you shop and what you buy regarding your loyalty to not participating in companies who offshore.  good luck.  hope you have plenty of time and plenty of money.


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    Not all companies outsource and Spheris shouldn't be (sm)
    your last hope for heaven sakes. By the way, your husband sounds like a real winner.
    that's what these companies do, outsource from clinic/hospital
    nm
    Tax breaks to companies that outsource overseas... tic tic tic
    Apparently, the President has vowed to stop giving tax breaks to companies that outsource jobs overseas.  That is a GREAT thing for MT's!  Woohoo!  Can't happen soon enough. http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/15/obama.taxes/?iref=mpstoryview
    It hasn't been allowed since HIPAA. MT companies who outsource...
    get away with it because they don't tell their clients, and internet wav file capabilities enable them to do so without anyone knowing. Some policy and investigation needs to be enforced to stop this. I say start slapping companies who outsource with huge fines and see how long we have to deal with outsourcing problems. What gets me most is "I can't even get a copy of my own medical record from my doc unless he has a release of medical records form signed by myself on file in my chart, but a doctor can dictate John Smith's medical history, send it to a company who in turns sends it out of the country and back here! Ridiculous.
    Trust me, there is no legislation in place allowing companies to outsource confidential ...sm
    patient records. Clothes, food, etc., yes, but not patient records. Start slapping the "biggies" with "big fines", and see how much lobbying pull they really have.
    There are plenty other companies out there...sm
    You don't have to put up with this.  Read the boards closely and check out the Jobs Forum.  Best of luck to you.
    There are still plenty of companies
    that value patient safety more than their greed and don't use that awful VR. Find a better company.
    There are still plenty of companies willing to pay for advertising

    on the TV and radio.  Besides, I'd never pay for radio or TV.  That's just silly.


    There are plenty of online companies set up this way also-nm
    nm
    I agree, but there are plenty of companies that don't - sm
    Can still put food on the table working somewhere else. 
    Plenty of rad work out there - try the companies that specialize in it. sm
    I have been with Keystrokes for 4 years and love it. I have radiology-only accounts, plenty of work and get paid well. The hospital I worked for outsourced to them and they hired me right away. Best move I ever made.

    My sister is also an MT and works for another company doing rad but runs out, so be careful that the company you go with has a lot of rad-only accounts.
    You idiot, there are plenty of jobs with companies that DON'T offshore. Go somewhere else and

    quit your raggin on this board. 


    That THEY DO NOT outsource!
    nm
    NO MDI-MD does NOT outsource NM
    x
    no outsource
    I honestly don't think they're going to go to outsourcing any time soon. Besides...I'm not going to be at this hospital for years and years. My husband is graduating from college in June and we may be relocating after that. I'm just wondering if I should ask for a raise for the extra work that I put in, or at least a bonus or some sort of recognition or compensation.
    OUTSOURCE OVERSEAS
    and you will be begging for work. get ready to brown-nose to get enough money to live on.

    good luck. you could do much better.
    They outsource to India
    They are funded by George Soros (look him up-- he has big bucks, is very "global", and has bankrupted a lot of foreign countries). Look at the two articles on the MT News board about Spheris. If you like all the new MQ rules and regulations, you will love Spheris, as they have all the same ones. I checked into them about 6 months ago and said, "No, thanks".
    Transcend does NOT outsource!
    xx
    so who types it? they only way around that would be to outsource
    and that seems ridiculous.
    Pretty soon they will outsource THAT
    /
    Nothing like a reminder that they outsource.
    x
    Because if they don't outsource presently...sm
    they will do it some day. Is the bottom line the buck. Unfortunately!
    If you can't outsource, then bring them here

    Just stopping the flow of records overseas is not going to solve the problem.  There is a special class of visa that industry can turn to if they cannot find enough American workers to do a job.  This has been used for engineers, IT professionals and nurses among others.  It is not necessarily that there are not Americans that can do the job, but that they will not do it for a low wage.  We need to pay attention to the immigration debate as well.  It isn't simply about poorly educated, low-skilled workers being involved in a guest worker program. 


    hospitals outsource because
    they are sick of all the MT drama (as we can here on this board); therefore, there are not many in-house positions left ;)
    hospitals outsource because
    ooops...I meant "as we can SEE how much drama is going on here on this board"
    reversing OUTSOURCE trend ?
    that I will not make the money that the hospital pays me. But is it true - that outsourcing is being reversed? I'd love to hear that ... so many more options for decent employment would come our way.

    THanks !
    Does Transcend outsource overseas?
    Thinking of applying with them as an IC.  Anybody with any input?
    They probably just outsource their tech work to there.
    x
    There was a discussion not long ago that they outsource
    I was checking into them, but when I read all the controversy over their outsourcing (one person said the owner was from India, I believe), I changed my mind. I can't remember what all was said, but maybe you can go back about a month or so ago and find the conversation. Good luck with your search!
    HP/Quicken/Norton outsource
    I agree.  My printer/fax machine died and had to get a new one.  There was a piece in the way so that I could not get the ink in, so had to call Customer Service.  Two hours later, with understanding only 1/3 of what he said, I finally got the information I needed.  My computer crashed on me (not a good year), had to call HP and Norton, both of which use India for their Customer Service - finally went and bought a new computer as got no help.  Couldn't get my Quicken loaded, so called the help desk, and guess what!  He was not understanding my question/problem at all.  It's like I cannot get into that part or I would not be asking for help!  Finally, a friend of mine helped me and got into it so I could do a backup to restore my data.  I am sick of this so-called "service", and sure hope American companies, hospitals in particular catch on soon before our whole world crashes down on us.
    we were told how much the outsource service
    gets paid every month from our overflow work - they get paid $48,000/month!!! A MONTH!!!! In the beginning, some of us were so mad that were coming in early and grabbing all the easy work and typing it as fast as we could just so it wouldn't get picked up by the outsource service. With our staff of 14 transcriptionists, plus the outsourcing, is it any wonder these hospitals are getting sick of having inhouse transcriptionists!
    OUTSOURCE OF DMV RECORDS TO MEXICO

    Check this out - it seems that the outsourcing is growing and growing.  Now the DMV in Orange County, California is outsourcing to Mexico.  It seems they are blaming the media for publicizing this, but not admitting to the potential for danger that this poses.  See the link below:


    http://michellemalkin.com/2007/07/27/outsourcing-dmv-data-to-mexico/


    They outsource to India... go figure
    We all lost our jobs a few years back when Dell made the decision to close all the call centers and send the work over to India. They are "programmed" not to fix the problem, but to get you off the phone as quickly as possible. Their answer to everything is to format and reinstall. I was with them for over 2 years before we got the ax. If anybody ever needs help with their Dell, just "yell."

    On a side note, I had to laugh when I saw an article in Reader's Digest about Mr. Dell and all the "great things he is doing for the US." If people only knew....
    Lawyer tells you how to outsource

    Please don't send this to the gab board as this pertains to US, the US MQ employees:






     


    Nationals who outsource to India

    Will the nationals in this country face financial hardship if the Obama/Biden administration cuts tax incentives to companies who outsource their MT work to India?


    I know of one company who outsources and they are not doing too well financially and their CEO resigned not to long ago, no reason given. I know a lot of MTs refuse to work for companies that outsource but many domestic MTs do work for them and maybe now is a time to bail out. Any thoughts???


    Looking into nursing. I figure you can't outsource the..sm
    people you take care of. I did billing for a hospital before I got into transcription. At this point I don't think it would pay enough for most of us, it was considered an entry level position where I worked. I don't know if that has changed or not.
    US to outsource obesity to India....

    With our jobs, come our problems.....very interesting article.



    http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-616323,flstry-1.cms


    TransTech Medical does not outsource offshore.
    p
    It's a service in the USA, but I hear they outsource to India.
    So I'm not too hopeful about it.  I'm going to at least talk to them, but like I said, I'm not too optimistic.
    Yes DIRECTLY FROM THE ......nm

    What I would tell you directly sm
    I know you want a better job and for whatever reason, it just has not happened...YET.

    Anything worth having is worth waiting for. Up to a point, the longer you wait the better it will be. Though, after a while it seems useless, it really isn't.

    I had a wonderful job up until summer of 2007. Like a fool, I had $$ in my eyes and I took a job at 10 cpl. It was hard work and the line counts weren't great, but then they started to regularly run out of work. That was year ago this month. I started actively looking for work and I had offers, but I didn't take them because the grass is usually greener over the septic tank, rather than on the other side of the fence. I have been burned and didn't want to be so again. I sent out one last resume just before Christmas, but didn't think anything would come of it. I was wrong. My gift for Christmas turned out to be my dream job, so I quit the one I had.

    In June, the one I quit in December begged me to come back and I accepted, because as a PT job, it would be perfect, and it has been. The boss I disliked is gone and a great gal is in her place. There is also a great deal of work.

    I have the same time in you do, 15 years. I have waited much of that time for a full time job and a part time job to come together in a way that meshes as perfectly as these two do. All good and wonderful things come to those who wait.

    I am wishing YOU all good things and soon. There is a company out there wishing for a hard worker, looking for their needle in a haystack and that needle is YOU. Best wishes and good luck!
    This is very true. None of our local hospitals outsource their pathology, as far as I know. But...sm
    I work for MQ's Seattle office and for a time was assigned to a pathology account there. I was always curious how/why they outsourced their pathology. Anyway, I quickly found it BORING (especially the gross dictations) and asked to be taken off the account because I made NO money (very short jobs + software slower than molasses = no money).

    Hope this helps some.


    I cant figure out why she is so upset if she has such a perfect job that doesn't outsource??
    x
    Angry, this happened in our hospital with our outsource service - sm
    we had not been checking the outsource service's work for months. Well, it came back to bite us in the ass, because low and behold there was a Transcriptionist that worked for the outsource service that could not type whatsoever - in fact, we even suspected that it was being offshored without our knowledge - that's how bad it was.

    anyways, it came back to bite us in the ass because an outside doctor's office received a copy of a hospital dictation and it made us look stupid. So needless to say, we asked that this certain transcriptionist be taken off the account. It was our fault for not looking at the transcription services work, but then again, they guarantee accuracy and crap like that.

    Maybe this is what happened in your situation. That all of a sudden the hospital decided to do a QA or some doctor finally read his dictation.

    Don't be hard on yourself. You will get the hang of it.
    see inside......*S* if post remd go to outsource forum

    http://www.workingamerica.org/wa_splash3.cfm


    http://www.outsourceoutrage.com/


    these are websites to report offshoring...........


    No, I do not outsource my clients dictation overseas. That is my choice.

    /


    As a service owner, I like to hire MTs from hospitals that outsource to us sm
    and often ask if it is OK to talk to the MTs at the hospital. I make sure that they know that I did not "take" their job - it it were not us, another service would have gotten the account.
    I was not meaning you directly at all
    guess I was just trying to get across the point that in other parts of the states southerns are protrayed as such. I am white, my husband is black and my mixed daughter was an English major in college here in the south and an accountant now, She, along with me, shutter when we hear ebonics. Like where you live and where I live outsiders would probably not believe with all the diversity, huh?
    Jan -- I type directly into the EMR
    Your doctor can still dictate but you will type directly into the EMR but you need to do it in house unless they allow you access from home -- which they might.  But it is hard to charge per line as there will be some "normals" that they put in.  So I do it hourly at the clinic.  Have done this twice now for clinics.  The first one, only one doc did the dictation, then another started and pretty soon all five were doing it and I had to quit as they needed someone full-time and I have my other own accounts.  I did it just to help them out at first and get out of the house.  But they did not like the hours they spent after seeing the patient doing the charting.  So one never knows.   Good luck but don't burn your bridges.   Charge them reasonably but not out of anger.  
    Please see the post directly above yours.
    While you are right that SSDI is different than SS, you forget that there are hundreds of children out there who have lost one or both parents and receive SS until age 18. They are certainly not retired so you're argument that it is SUPPOSED to be an account that helps people after they retired is inaccurate. It is, as originally stated, a program that was meant to help people who fell on hard times (not retirement).

    As far as judging someone else, I'm just stating facts.

    Like many other hardworking people on this board, I am not especially fond of watching my tax money be spent in a wasteful manner (I am not calling SS wasteful), and I certainly do not appreciate the people out there who are looking for ways around the system.

    I could go on in this vein for a while but I've got to get back to my work. :)
    Wow, this must be directly for a facility. Sm msg

    Very hard to imagine an MTSO paying that type of money, although it is well worth every penny!  Good luck!  Grab it quick!