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Keystrokes and SoftScribe - NYMT

Posted: Sep 20, 2012

Can anyone tell me anything about the above 2 companies. I have a phone interview next week with SoftScribe and am waiting for a call for interview with Keystrokes. I'm currently working in a hospital who has decided to outsource transcription. The company they chose is Mediscribes, who would give us jobs as employees, but we have learned that have not been forthcoming with information, keep changing the answers to the questions we ask and have even lied to us. So, need to find another company fast. Help please?

Dont expect to find ANY MTSO with morals. They all - lie. Every single one of them. nm,

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same boat - CALIMTDV

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I have the same problem. I think we have to make the decision for ourselves no matter what we read here. Everyone has a different experience at different places, some good, some bad. I worked for Edix for a very short time years ago and HATED them....loved the work but hated the constant email badgering BS that went with them and the lack of help or concern. I had editors changing my reports because it was not the "style" THEY would have typed it NOT because it was wrong. HATED the company but like I said, I loved the work.

Did you get severance pay or did they consider a job offer would suffice in lieu of severance? Are you by some chance in northern CA at FRMC? They just let go of 23 women in one shot and outsouced to Mediscribes. They were not offered severance pay because they figured offering them a job with Mediscribes covered it....but they let them take home their crappy antiquated computers..how nice of them...very sad. Some had been there for 25+ years and left with nothing. I would have taken the computer and beat it with a sledge hammer and left it on the front steps my last day!

I worked 14 years at another place and my job was eliminated by Powerscribe 360 Radiology from Nuance but was lucky enough to get severance. Now the doctors create their own radiology reports that look crappy..but hey...they cut 3 jobs and saved a bundle in wages and insurance.

Forget about whatâ��s on this board and think about what YOU need. If you need money right now than take a job right now. Give it your all and then if you hate it you can take your time to find one that might be right for you and still have an income.

If you mean SoftScript, unless you do not need full-time lines, I'd avoid it. sm - COMT

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I tried it twice (fool me once, shame on you, etc), and both times it was the same thing -- constantly running out of work. Fridays and Saturdays there usually was enough, but then on Sunday and Monday it would start to dwindle and forget making any kind of money the other days.

As for Keystrokes, I worked there for awhile and I was on the Meditech platform, which I hated, but I made decent money, I suppose. Since I have left, I have seen people post about line rates being cut, payroll being late, and benefits going down, so I am not sure about them either.

Good luck in your search.

Outsourcing - CALIMTDV

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Many years ago when the clinic portion outsourced to what was then Edix, the girls were guaranteed 10 cents a line. Most all of the girls took the job because back then it was a great offer. Unfortunately, they failed to mention that the offer was for a ONE YEAR period. At the end of the year they dropped their pay to 7 cents a line and there was nothing they could do about it....the ones that were still there quit in a rage.

They will usually offer a great deal to the MT because they made false promises to your company to get the account in the first place and they NEED you to keep the work done.

If you consider the offer from Mediscribes make sure to ask if the offer is perminent as long as you stay or for a certain period of time

If you go with Mediscribes, realize it is an Indian company and sm - btdt

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you will deal with techs in India who allocate your work to you and will bug you all day with instant messages. At least, that is, if it the Mediscribes that claims to be in Louisville, KY, when actually, the owner is an Indian who just has a home there. The company itself is in India.

There is another Mediscribes in Florida, and if that is the case, I have heard bad things about them as well, plus read an article a few years back about the big shot at the company and he sounded like a pompous bag of wind who thought MTs were chattle.

Good luck.

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