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MTing NOT DEAD - HOPEFUL
Posted: Nov 22, 2011
MT'ers transcription may not be dead after all. I had an interview with a local hospital that has many clinics and outside services. They have had all of their transcription outsourced aside from various departments in the actual hospital. However, they have discovered a better quality of work if they keep their work onsite. They are pulling ALL of their services back to using on-site transcriptionists. Some at home work after training, but there will be no MTSO. This particular medical group used a consuting firm and discovered they will not only save money, but will have better quality of work and faster TAT. They were also made aware that many, many HIPPA violations were occuring using MTSOs that send work overseas. Hopefully, other hospitals and docs will discover that it is more cost effcient and quality efficient to omit the MTSOs altogether!
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[ In Reply To ..]Just curious what State do you live in? I am in CT and I wish the hospitals and clinics would hire on-site transcriptionists. CT has a high unemployment rate as it is.
MTing NOT DEAD - HOPEFUL
[ In Reply To ..]North Carolina and the unemployment rate in my area is horrible.
MTing NOT DEAD - MT
[ In Reply To ..]I also have that same experience. A local hospital in my area had went to the point and click system, but doctors were finding it too time consuming and complaining and the hospital and clinic eventually started hiring transcriptionists back on site as well. Also an MTSO that I worked for had the same experience...lost accounts due to hospitals offshoring only to realize they got crap work and brought it back to the smaller MTSO I had worked for.
MTing NOT DEAD - HOPEFUL
[ In Reply To ..]Hopefully this trend will continue. Maybe they will finally figure out that quality does count and they are not saving money.
Congrats ... I just got a new client (SM) - Midwest MT
[ In Reply To ..]and the first thing they asked was do I outsource to India. I had to laugh and say no, I'm too small to outsource outside the local area.
Guess what ... I got the account! I think a lot of the smaller hospitals and clinics realize that the bigger companies give them crap work so maybe there's hope.
Good luck with your new job!
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