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Keep US Healthcare information jobs in US! - Doubtful MT

Posted: Jun 14, 2010

See for yourself: http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=555879&publicationSubCategoryId=71 Offshore medical transcription companies who are probably losing clients because of the US recession are 'fooling' themselves (and others) by saying they can expand their businesses because of the Healthcare Reform and the need for more health information exchange. This is very upsetting!

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MT group to provide more training programs
(The Philippine Star) Updated March 08, 2010 12:00 AM

MANILA, Philippines - The Medical Transcription Industry Association of the Philippines Inc. (MTIAPI) recently concluded its first short but intensive course in Basic Medical Coding and Billing held at the Philippine Trade Training Center.

The training was a result of collaborative efforts by the MTIAPI, CITEM-DTI and Media Focus.

â��The Medical Coding and Billing Training is only the first of MTIAPIâ��s series of seminars and workshops in order to beef up the Philippinesâ�� new generation of workforce that is now expanding into servicing the entire health information management sector,â�� said Myla Rose Mundo-Reyes, MTIAPI president.

Various medical careers relating to health information management are opening new avenues of challenging career growth and great earning potentials.

Reyes said that with the increasing demand in US health care documentation, the MTIAPI is now looking at opening these opportunities to provide employment to thousands of displaced medical and nursing graduates in the Philippines.

Reyes said, â��Thereâ��s a huge opportunity for the Philippines to carve out a substantial share of outsourced services in the US health care documentation sector such as medical transcription, coding, billing, patient education, electronic health record, digital archiving, medical claims recovery and management and so much more.â��

Participants were highly satisfied with the conduct of the training and requested for more sessions similar to this.

â��This seminar was an eye-opener to possible business opportunities in the medical billing and coding industry,â�� said Aileen Ced of the Medserve Healthcare Services Corp.

The MTIAPI will also offer retooling programs to raise the level of competitiveness of medical transcriptionists in the country through continuing education, certification and speech recognition editing training.

These programs will be offered to medical transcription companies and schools, as well as to independent or home-based MT practitioners.

For more information on the succeeding activities and programs of MTIAPI for the year, visit www.mtiapi.com or e-mail at info@mtiapi.com.

AMERICAN DICTATION SHOULD STAY IN AMERICA!!!! - old mt

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My question. Which of the big companies over here are helping them!!!!!???????????? This is such a bunch of C***. What an insult to us all.. AMERICAN DICTATION SHOULD STAY IN AMERICA!!!!

Its also why, even if i get out of MT, Im not going to - bother with learning billing or coding.

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Until the "Black Greed Hole" in American business if plugged, I really don't see much hope for this country in all work sectors, not just ours.

I wonder which of the schools are teaching people overseas to take our jobs? - Wondering

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I think M-Tec and Andrews enroll students only from the US and Canada - not overseas - See message

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Unless I'm mistaken or their policy has changed, both M-Tec and Andrews may only be available to students in the United States and Canada. I don't know about the others.

No MT schools accepts students who LIVE abroad - sm

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one has to be a US citizen or a permanent resident in the US to be accepted into a US MT school.

I'm not sure about that. Why do you believe that to be true? - Wondering

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Not quite true... - anonymous

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While CS, M-Tech, and Andrews won't allow students not in the US to take their programs, TRSi actually has established schools in other countries and are training them in transcription and ASR..and their rates are much lower than ours...not quite as low as India's, though.

Career Step does - Typin_away

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I believe they have a MT school and a coding school located over there. No surprise when they sell their program to any institution that wants it.

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