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petition to BAN outsourcing medical records - Midnite Rider

Posted: Aug 23, 2013

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/ban-the-outsourcing-of.fb29?source=s.fb&r_by=6200837 We have 779 signatures...new goal of 1000! Please join us.

don't you mean offshore not outsourcing? - MT

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I mean, all MTs who work at home (and want to stay working from home) are dependent on the fact that records are outsourced.

Nothing - sm

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makes your plea look ridiculous than not even using the correct terminology.

what is ridiculous is your ridicule - just sayin

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How sad it is to pick apart wording when the complaint is totally valid and many US transcriptionists have lost their jobs over it. The fact that our jobs are being sent overseas itself is ridiculous! At least she posted a link to a petition, trying to do something about it, and if nothing else letting others know why so many people are unemployed and what's happening with their medical records. She chose to stand up and do something where u tend to sit back and ridicule. That in itself is sad. There were almost 800 signatures on that petition last time I looked at it. I am thankful that those who have signed and posted comments didn't share your sad demeanor.

truth is, if you ban outsourcing that means they cannot send out ANYWHERE - and we all go back to the facilities

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outsoursing is sending work out - that's us at home (as in left the building) AND other countries (as in left the building). Offshoring is out of the country ONLY. Still want to sign? Outsourcing will, however, eliminate the MTSOs along with MTs at home and other countries. That would be nice to see.

I'm not signing something that will kill my job and limit me to local opportunities, number one. 2) with technology what it is and the money involved that allows the whole shebang, and the money invested in that - do you really think they'd cow down to a petition no matter how many sign over and above the required? Just means they have to consider it, not accept it. They're gonna say, "Hell no. You're stopping progress." Especially when companies like IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Pfizer (drug company) to nname a few, would have to stop offshoring and, well, this is America - money talks.

You really think we're the only ones in this??

P.S. Perhaps you missed this from initial post a while back. - article for you. see msg

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This is just a drop in the bucket of companies that we are up against who obviously will fight the demise of outsourcing/offshoring, written in 2011. This is who we have to fight, who we are up against.

You really think it's just about us??

oh goodness - sm

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You missed the entire point. There was no ridicule. Outsourcing is how most MTs work. If you work for an MTSO, you are engaged in outsourcing. The problem is OFFSHORING. There is a BIG difference.

Signing that petition is going to shoot all of us in the foot! Be sensible! We need to stop OFFSHORING, not outsourcing.

just sayin' - SM

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A little education so you know what you're talking about goes a long way.

If you can't differentiate between the terminology, how do you expect others to have a clue what it is you want?

800 sheep = 800 sheep, nothing more.

no clue? really? - just sayin

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guess the other 830 some odd signatures with comments have NO CLUE what the complaint is about either right? like I said before, sad, very sad indeed!

ok, go ahead, ban outsourcing. MT is over anyway. - off with the MTSOs heads too! NM

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-n-m-

I agree - nm

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Yes you mean to say offshoring. As always stated - sm

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outsourcing allows us to work at home. To the below poster who said nothing...nothing in your post makes the least bit of sense.

FYI - there is no "nothing" post "below" and what? Don't know a typo - when youu see one? anonMT

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...and you're criticizing others? Gutzy.

or perhaps it is posted in response to the wrong post and maybe it was meant for original poster - then it would indeed make sence.

The "nothing" post is the 3rd one in line after the OP's post. - nm

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nm

Yes, indeed. You were the one that didn't quite hit the mark - so to speak wihch made your post hilarious.

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sorry, but seems WE ALL make mistakes, huh? Just pointing that out.

You're talking to the wrong poster - sm

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I only made one post, and the one you're accusing me of isn't it. Please stop trying to pick fights with random people.

you really thought you had to show me where the - nothing post was? NM

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LOL! Sorry I confused you with the other.

You said one didn't exist. Guess I didn't understand your attempt at humor? - nm

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nm

that's ok. But its right in the subject line in quotes: There is no "nothing" post - "below" . NM

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petition to BAN outsourcing medical records - Midnite Rider

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I totally agree that the correct terminology should have been "offshoring." However, I was not the originator of the petition. The originator has been contacted so hopefully will address this wording. I do, however, commend the originator for actually DOING something! "United we stand, divided we fall." "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success!" All I am asking is, Let's do something. "Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something."

"Understandably, it is often easier to get caught up in the crusade fervor than to step aside - to resarch the truth.

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SO, PROVERBS OR FORTUNE COOKIES ASIDE, LETS GET EDUCATED, SHALL WE? THINK WE OUTNUMBER THESE PEOPLE?

Exerpts from: Outsourcing and Offshoring American Jobs

"Sitel and Genpact are two of the largest global outsourcers. Sitel, a Nashville, Tennessee global outsourcing provider, employs 60,000 workers in 27 countries including: 11,000 in the Philippines, 4,000 in India and 9,000 in the Latin American bilingual countries of Columbia, Brazil, Panama, Mexico, and Chili. Genpact was created by GE. (OH MY)

Offshore outsourcing is no longer limited to back office and call-center jobs. Today it includes: software design, skilled programming work, accounting, microeconomics, radiology, financial analysis, electronics, architecture and more.

Proctor & Gamble, Dupont, Cisco Systems, ABN AMRO, Unilever, Rockwell Collins, and Marriott (OH MY!!) each signed offshore megadeals worth billions. In 2004, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals moved its entire clinical testing operation to the outsourcing specialist Accenture Ltd. Big Pharma allied with partners overseas in China, India, and Russia to do extensive molecular research. (WHO SAYS IT'S NOT ABOUT MONEY?)

General Electric has 13,000 employees in a research center in Shanghai. Pfizer Drug has 200 employees at this same center. Pfizer is running 44 new drug trials in an outsource center in India. Microsoft has 1,500 employees at research and development centers in India and China. Nokia is building a new $150 million mobile phone plant in India that will employ 2,000 workers. Intel has 2,500 employees in India working on a micro-compressor called Xeon7400. They have established a $500 million capital technology fund in China for investment in wireless broadband technology and media communications. Other big name corporations involved in outsourcing in China and India include: Daimler Chrysler, GM, Siemens, Matsushita Electric, IBM, American Express, Hewlett Packard, and Johnson & Johnson.

(COLLEGES AND CORPORATION TRAINING, TOO. WELL, IF YOU CANNOT GET A US JOB WITH A DEGREE AND ATTENDANCE IS DOWN - LETS OUTSOURCE COURSES ONLINE.)

Cornell University is now operating a medical school in Qatar. Microsoft is building a $28 million research and development campus in Beijing. Currently in India, over 14 million high school graduates have reasonable to good use of the English language. Since 2002, bachelor degrees are down by 50 percent in the U.S. in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Usually, degrees in any of these areas have virtually guaranteed employment in the U.S. Based on media representation, American students of all ages have backed away from these lucrative career choices. Those considering medical transcription careers should know that with the advent of voice recognition software, jobs in that industry will be scarce in less than 10 years. (AND IT HAS ONLY BEEN TWO YRS SINCE THIS WAS WRITTEN.) Nicaragua center has 1,400 workers with university degrees and 75 percent earned them in the U.S.

What's the intrigue of off-shoring? It allows small companies to compete effectively with huge corporations. Off-shoring is rated in three categories. The first is financial attractiveness. In 2009, Ghana was number one in this category. Second is skills availability. India ranked first place in the same year. Third is business environment. Chili took the number one spot also in 2009. Many would say that labor-cost reductions and taxes are the only drive. After factoring the costs of telecommunications and management expenses, off-shoring a customer service call can save a company up to 55 percent. It costs Eli Lilly & Company $1.1 billion dollars to develop and release a new drug in the U.S. The same process costs $800 million overseas. Processes that pay $10-$12 an hour in the U.S. can be hired out for $4-$6 an hour in Latin America. India and China are the primary countries for outsourcing electronics. Mexico is the leader in manufacturing jobs and engineering.

Understandably, it is often easier to get caught up in the crusade fervor than to step aside and take the time to research the truth. It is certain that global outsourcing is a permanent manifestation.

Natural resources, labor and capital would have been difficult to move between countries two centuries ago, but now with telecommunication innovations rapidly developing, Guatemala has access to New Jersey pretzels and Kansas can order Macadamia nuts hand picked off an Australian tree.

It's time to look to the future and take our place as the progressive leader in the Global outsourcing economy in which we now live."

SO, I'LL THINK TWICE ABOUT BAD-MOUTHING THE AHDI OR WHATEVER NAME THEY DON NOW, FOR GOING GLOBAL, SEEMS THEY STOLE THAT IDEA FROM CNN LONG BEFORE WE SAW IT COMING.

SPEAK UP IF YOU WILL, BUT STICKING TOGETHER AS THE 1/1,000,000 PORTION OF THE SCHEME - WHO DO YOU THINK WILL BE LISTENING? BY THE WAY, NOT YELLING, JUST WANTED TO SEPARATE MY STATEMENTS FROM THE ARTICLE.

YOU NEED TO GOOGLE THIS SUBJECT AND READ. APPROACH THE NAY-SAYERS FOR OFFSHORING (REMEMBER OFF-SHORING)FROM THERE, AND BAND WITH THEM. MTs STICKING TOGETHER ARE NOT ENOUGH - OBVIOUSLY. I DON'T BELIEVE ANYONE CAN STOP PROGRESS, THO. NOT WITH THE WORLD-WIDE SPREAD OF THIS AND MONEY INVESTED IN IT. WITH EVERY NEW TECHNOLOGICAL UPGRADE - COMES ANOTHER COUNTRY'S LOG-ON. YOU'D BE BETTER OFF HIRING HACKERS TO TOPPLE THE DOMINOS - THAT ONLY A TEMPORARY FIX. A FOR EFFORT, BUT GET REAL. THE DAYS OF MARCHING ON WASHINGTON ARE GONE.

This petition is about patient rights and sending private information overseas without patient knowl - Fired Up

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You seem to misunderstand that patient's rights and lives are not the same as research, fabrication, education or electronics. We are speaking to the fact that patient information is being handled in foreign countries that do not have the same privacy laws and do not abide by the same privacy rights that we have here. If you don't understand that try looking at your own medical chart and see just how much personal information is included in the information being handed out worldwide. Identity theft is already issue enough in this country alone do you really want to allow the entire world access to your personal files?

you care about your jobs as we all do. - anon NM

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How do I know - I just lost my house to this professsion...yeah like I care about the medical records of strangers when I can no longer take care of my family. Banning the offshoring of patients' medical records IS our work so don't try to fluff that that up by BS'n the "I fear for the patient" card.

Bologna.

Of course part of it is over jobs; however, Americans taking care of American patient records is the - Fired Up

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The "job" is to protect and correctly record patient information so of course it concerns the MT jobs as well thats a given; however, if you do not see the implications of patient privacy then you shouldn't be in this profession but I personal am more pissed off to think of my personal information hitting the internet for all to see at any given moment.

geez louise - sm

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You might be surprised but the average person has no clue how or where their records are produced and would be just as upset knowing Suzy-Q down the road having access to them as they would be Ahmed doing them.

Tell me, so many of you keep spouting off about privacy laws and them not being enforceable, etc. Would you mind pointing me to your references on that? I ask because it's blatant garbage just the same rhetoric that so many like to throw around.

And your identity is at risk from the moment you're born and someone puts your name and number in a record. It's no more at risk now just because someone in India is sitting with the record. If your ID is stolen, it is just as likely (actually probably more likely) to be stolen right here in the good ol' USA.

Your credit reports are global, your credit cards are global, your health/life/car insurance is global, your medical records are global, and likely some portion of your HR is global. Just how many signatures do you think it will take to change that? You aren't able to count that high.

I dislike losing my job to offshore labor as much as the next girl, believe me, but trying to put your finger in one hole that is leaking in hopes you will stem the flood tide, well if it makes you feel useful do it. YOu've all put your real names out there, some with your hometowns and then posted it all over facebook and all over the forums (so please about that whole identity theft stuff), without any real regard to the possible pitfalls of that.

And you've done it on a "petition" that isn't even using the correct terminology.

If this were funny, I'd see Laurel and Hardy, but it's not funny, it's all just incredibly sad.

wow your really upset by some people trying to make a difference - Fired Up

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smh it takes all kinds but at least some of us are trying.

upset? not over that, more power to ya. It's your not - listening, and constant needling

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to change our minds. It's irritating dear. Good for you, you're trying. But realize if we sound irritated - that's the point you need to realize you're not gonna sway us and stop.

p.s. I am another poster, not 'gesh louise sm', just wanted to chime in...you're making more than one miserable.

I'm stopping here with you, maybe that'll do it, think? Good luck.

lol finally :) - Fired Up

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have a nice day :)

omg - you do realize no one opposing you is trying to - get you to stop your cause right?

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Or did you just HAVE to have the last word? Much like the kid who cries as long as it takes to get their way.

I see now.

well said! - nm

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I alerted her - did you too?

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It is impossible to unbake a cake. - nm

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nm

But this is not a cake - American Cake Baker and MT

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And what has been done can be un-done but only if we decide we have to do it, and we realize we CAN do it.

We do indeed have to stop this wholesale offshoring of our American economy, and we need to follow in the footsteps of our forefathers (and since we are mostly women, recognize the courage and the determination of our foremothers) to find the will and the purpose to do what is seemingly impossible. We need to protect the inheritences of our children and grandchildren, one of which is a thriving national economy. We, the MTs need to do it in terms of specifically addressing the reasons for keeping medical record documentation here because we are the experts, we see and understand what is happening. But we are also American citizens, and we must as well, coalesce, with other American workers in every arena of our economy who are also seeing this happening to their industries, acting together to stop this crazy bleeding of our nation's economic wealth into the third world.

For the sake of our own national defense in this war-torn world, if nothing else, we must keep our own people employed, blue collar, pink collar, white collar, factory worker, service worker, butcher, baker, engineer, surgeon, and MT.

An inaccurate medical record is a life and death matter, and it is our duty to put to stop to this cavalier (and callous) approach that is the current paradigm of medical record documentation. And secondly, barely less important, we must join those who are trying to create an awareness of what is happening to us nationally; to stop the dismantling of our infrastructure and sending it to China and other places with their slave economies. Free men and women cannot compete economically with slaves and if we do not recognize this, then we will become slaves too.

Also, as an aside, become aware of the destruction of our agriculture industry by over-zealous environmental do-gooders!

We can, and should, and must, do all. We can walk and chew gum. We can bake cakes for tonight's dessert, and then write letters to congress. We can hire lobbiests, we can descend, en masse, upon our congresscritters' townhalls, we can even march on Washington whether or not some consider it pointless, it can still serve a good purpose. We must do whatever it takes, find what works and what doesn't, find new ways and old, to get the attention of those in power whose responsibility it is to keep our people safe and our economy prosperous, and replace them if they fail to do this, and they are failing, all of them, catastrophically, so completely out of phase of what the problems are here that instead of recognizing the flood of American job loss, they want to bring in floods of people from other countries so they too can be unemployed.

Once upon a time, the brains that run the place, on all sides of the political spectrum, with a few exceptions (Ross Perot comes to mind) could only see the economic benefits of off-shoring and, indeed, there were some benefits initially, when it was only a few vocations, a few professions, a few industries were sent away, but now we are all experiencing the devastating consequences of jobs and infrastructure in every sector of our economy being stolen away.

WE, the American people, must put a stop to this, and WE, the American MTs, must be the ones to put a stop to what has happened to our profession.

(I fear there are more then a few spelling errors in my post, please mentally QA me if you will, but please think about what I am saying because we do have a fight on our hands, whether we will it or not.)

BRAVO!! - Fired Up

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Well spoken!!

The cake needs to be thrown out; its been poisoned - Winnower

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Agreed that just signing a petition will likely do little, but in concert with talking, in most cases in a friendly way, to every individual you come in contact with via phone or face to face like with bill collectors asking for their money, the services you call to question billing, to tweak down your levels of service or to disconnect altogether and bluntly tell them why, strike up a conversation with people in a queue especially the older folks who face a lot of scary things regarding whether they will be allowed to live or die based upon their amount of disposable income or credit (ooops, there's goes your house; sorry, kids) when Medicare denies coverage, tell your doctors and their office staff, if you can still afford that luxury, why you can't buy your medicines anymore or receive any of that compassionate care offered through them or the facilities they staff even though your chosen career has been in healthcare all your life (I find this most egregious of all) while you unhappily type/edit along as your teeth are crumbling, your vision blurs and your bones ache, and the biggest networking social club of all, your church. Wean yourself off the antidepressants for a while and get a little angry; I did. Lexapro is pretty great at numbing the pain while the world crashs down around you.

Write a letter and mail it to any TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN you can think of. I write letters all the time just to relieve the stress not necessarily with the intent of sending them, but sometimes I tweak them all together and do; it can actually help when things get tough. The people I speak with have no idea offshoring is going on; I can audibly hear them deeply inhale; and I encourage them to take charge of their healthcare, obtain their records and detailed invoices, and keep a close eye on their old folks and without fail, even after our conversation has gone in another direction, they always remember to thank me for telling them. Then, there are those in denial because they've been led to believe differently. Just today, my brother goes to his PCP to try to get them to refill his scripts without an appointment (impossible) and brought up the topic with the nurse, as related to him by me. She said "Oh, no. We use ______ _____ voice recognition. You don't understand. You talk and it writes it for you." They must have a super-duper version of this particular VR program, or perhaps not as many cooks in the kitchen spoiling the recipe of it ability to "learn" from editing. So, he further tries to convince her re: hospital medical records. She said, "Oh, no. None of it leaves the country." She evidently has been told the truth as they want her to believe and now refuses to budge. He knows more she does and, look, I've even have him trying to educate people after his witnessing my downward spiral, so get your family and friends involved.

But the American job that should have replaced it is in INDIA! - cake baker

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There should not be one single solitary American MT job in India when one single solitary MT is unemployed!!!

Of course, our jobs will change with advances in technology, but there are PLENTY of American MT jobs but they are in India! And the American money paid out for that work, a majority of it by the US taxpayer, should be circulating in the AMERICAN economy creating new jobs here for displaced MTs as technology progresses.

You have a very valuable skill that took years to acquire. It makes me very angry that you have been conditioned to think this worthless because your valuable and vitally important job, for which your skills are needed, have been taken away from you and sent to India -- and being done not very well by a person(s) who has no right to your job, funded largely by the American taxpayer -- as long as you are unemployed.

True, technology changes, the buggy whip makers are displaced by horseless carriages, but in a strong LOCAL economy, there are employers who will make use of the existing skills of the buggy whip makers, and adapt those leatherworking skills into something they need, making leather upholstered seats for the new horseless carriages, and so should it be with you. Your MT skills should go to an employer who can use them right now as is, not drive you onto foodstamps, foreclosure, homelessness because some pirate, some corporate raider, took your paycheck and pays a very small percentage of it to some doctor in India who ought be treating Indian patients not doing American medical transcription, and kept the rest for himself. This is wrong, every way you look at it.

Furthermore, as technology progresses, you are the one whose MT skills, whose knowledge of medical language, etc., should be channeled into new opportunities here in America, not just handed over to people in other countries while too many of you are facing hunger and homelessness. Do you get it?

We all need to stop this negativity, this passivity. In our past, when things came to their most awful, it was often women who came to the forefront and insisted that the battle must be fought and won. Stop and think how important the two Harrietts were in bringing about the end of slavery in this country!!! Harriett Beecher Stowe and Harriett Tubman! Hariett Tubman with her practical hands-on determination to get as many slaves out of slavery as possible, often at the risk of her own life. Harriett Beecher Stowe, a minister's wife, who took the time from her busy life, to write an impassioned novel that provided the spark that was needed to inflame the hearts of Americans everywhere to bring about the end of slavery so that the life's work of Harriett Tubman would not have been in vain, that in her own lifetime she would see no American caught in the bondage of slavery. We are American women too, we are their spiritual descendents, and perhaps literal descendents as well, but ARE WE THEIR HEIRS? Stop this, stop this, stop this. If there were no MT jobs India this might make sense. But there IS a job for every single underemployed or unemployed -- or young MT to be -- that has been sent to India. Do you understand this????? Go forth, young woman, old women, and every women in between, and get your jobs back!

I don't get... - Winnower

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...if you are for or against the offshoring of U.S. taxpayers sensitive medical data; allegedly, all an ID thief needs now is a name, and offshore has access to names and even better birth dates; or are you saying, "Off to school you go, old woman"? Everybody I know and talk with have jobs totally unrelated to their degrees; they're not very happy either. Education is just another scheme to rob you blind. When I'm ready or forced, I'll either be educated or use what I currently possess to work for myself as far away from medicine as possible and it will have been a great 37 years except for the past decade and half when Mr. Grinch came on the scene making it "Stink, stank, stunk." In the meantime, I will engage in educating the U.S. Citizen and if it leads to point and click for all, so be it; its time doctors take responsibility for it all, though we'll all suffer from it.

I am completely opposed to offshoring - Cake Baker

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For the reasons you mention as well as the part it plays in the destruction of our American economy.

I think the best medical transcription happens in hospitals with small local companies or IC's handling the overflow. Every MT who processes the medical record,whether transcribing or VR, has access to the hospital and can quicky and accurately get answers to questions that may arise in the course of processing the report, the MTs know the hospitals, they know the doctors, they know the area. There are hospital clerks available to them to handle questions regarding democraphics, cc's, and so many other problems that can come up (I think what I miss more than anything else about this work are those wonderful clerical angels of the medical record departments who made our jobs possible. A good medical record/transcription clerk was worth her weight in gold now matter how heavy she might be.)

Anyway, I've said enough. Been called doughboy for my pains. Good night.

Yes!!! - Winnower

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Absolutely. A well-oiled machine we were, especially the crew I worked with at night. Even the operator would transfer calls to us when she just didn't know. The almighty budget reared its ugly head and hurled; we had to go. I suppose its a good thing no one knows how standards have been lowered. By the way, I love the doughboy.

be careful - I called her doughboy and she blew a gasket! - s/m.

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Went off on me with a full page of personal attacks and used the S word ('suit'). That post was removed by morning and possibly she was banned and/or reprimanded, I don't know.

wasn't calling her a name - was a "cake baker" synonym.

personal attacks and calling names all the same childish behavior - smh

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shows true colors

Agree. That post was removed by moderator. I jokingly - referred to her as doughboy, said nothing nasty

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to her, post is still above. Just a synonym for Cake Baker and she lost it, tore into me for several things, a full page worth. Like I said, her post was removed - just a cooling off period, I suppose.

we ALL are. Even the nonpetition people. - anon s/m

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they just feel it is a losing battle and waste of time. You really don't get it do you?

We get you don't think it will work but - jeez

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What we don't get is why do you keep bothering to posting at all unless its just to argue with those that want to put out more effort?

My job was lost because of new software, not outsourcing (sm) - Laid off MT

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You are only fighting part of a losing battle. The software being developed daily is giving doctors the option to not have to spend their time dictating and not have to pay for medical transcrption service. It is just a fact of life. I had feared Voice Recognition software improving to the point of us becoming obsolete, but that was not the devil that got me. What took my job was a point and click system. And they are getting better every day. Between point and click, VR, and outsourcing, we all need to look to other fields of work. It is like individual seamstresses trying to fight against big factories that came in and machines did their job. The small amount those with jobs are even able to make these days is not even worth it. A very select few are still lucky in their positions, but for the vast majority, we are at the end of this era. It was a great job and gave me many years at home with my kids and I appreciate it. But it is OVER. And I am depressed and sad, but a petition against offshoring is not going to fix it.

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My husband's father had a brain tumor many years ago (back when I first started dating him) and had surgery. Unfortunately, the surgeon never stopped the bleeding completely before closing him up and waited too long to take him back to the OR, so he remained in a coma for numerous months until he passed away. My husband's mother many years later also passed away. My husband is starting to have periods of extreme forgetfullness and completely not remembering something ...

Jul 26, 2012

I don't see much talk about EMR taking over the MTs job. This has happened to me with my last three companies (small transcription companies) that I have worked for. With my last job we had an account with a large hospital that had a cardiology group we transcribed for. EMR came in and we were immediately out of a job. Just wondering if anyone else has had this experience...pretty much sucks ...

Nov 26, 2012

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Apr 17, 2013

Did anyone else question that advertisement? First, they say that you can work at their locations, then later on they say that the candidates need to have internt access, that does not make sense. Also, the list of people they consider good candidates does not make sense. Coders and RNs to scan records? I'm not saying it's beneath them, but it's just seems a little strange that they would seek those type of people (as well as some others on the list) for an ...

May 02, 2013

Hi I am a bit worried. I had to be put out of work, and probably for a while, because of hip and knee problems that are causing me so much pain that I can hardly walk and I cannot sit for long before my hip and back are killing me. Thing is, I have "been with the company for only 9 months" so I do not qualify for family leave act. Does anyone know if they are quick to fire you if you file under the other: ADA Qualifying Impairment. I was a "bring over" from another company, but they a ...

Mar 06, 2014

Curious. Thanks! ...

Dec 22, 2009

How many amongst you have used any of the popular EMRs like practice partner(http://www.practicepartner.com),infraware (www.infraware.com). EMRs have suddenly become very hot since they will become mandatory by 2014. I had read some where that there are some security issues with them.What do you think are pros and cons with EMRs? ...

May 27, 2010

and paid to have them sent to me. The last 20 pages were someone else's medical record. I called the records dept and told the clerk, and she acted like it was no big deal and could I bring them back? At first, I just wanted the extra 5 bux back that I paid for these (5 bux per 20 pages is what they charge). Then I wondered if someone else got a part of MY medical record? She assured me not. This really sounds like a big fat HIPAA violation and I think th ...

Jul 30, 2011

I have heard and read that Obama is really pushing the EMR, and by the year 2014, he wants all hospitals/clinics to implement this or else be taxed. He also is supposed to be offering grants and incentives if they do also. So any hospital or physician office that doesn't will be taxed more and will not get incentives, grants, etc. So I think most will try it cause they don't want more taxes and want the incentives, etc. So where does that leave us? If you work for a hospital, what ...

Oct 24, 2011

Anyone out there transcribing directly into EMR? I'm wondering about using text expanders in EMR and, how are you counting lines in EMR? Or do you know of anywhere that addresses these issues? Thanks! ...

Nov 30, 2011

My sister has recently taken on the task of medical record compliance at her husband's dental office. They are electronic (just going that way), and she is trying to be HIPAA compliant. I know this doesn't concern transcription, but I though maybe someone has an MR person in their office who could direct her to a blog, or website where she could get information. Thanks! ...

Jul 11, 2012

I'm wondering if anyone has actually done the testing for this company/job (for medical records summarizer). I applied and they sent me a packet and a test. They want me to review 45 pages of medical records and summarize it! This is all sketchy to me. They have an AOL email address, no company info, nothing. Not sure if this is a scam or what. ...

Aug 03, 2012

The family practice I go to is using this. The doctor asks questions and constantly inputs into his PC tablet as we speak. Its not looking good for the MT field. Anyone else worried? I worked on a project transferring hospital charts from Legacy to Epic. Once they were done with using us for that project, we were let go with no notice. Just thinking my time is running out and I need to get to medical coding school fast! Then I am worried will medical coding too be forced onto the doctors ...

Sep 15, 2012

and at the bottom there is a section for comments, I then selected re: her news show. I asked her to do a followup regarding the off-shoring situation. Please, let's try to get this story out! If she gets enough emails, maybe we can make this happen. She's the person to do it, I think. TYIA. ...

Jan 05, 2013

http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/nm/copying-common-in-electronic-medical-records ...

Apr 16, 2013

Is EMR the same as voice reconigition? ...

Jun 19, 2013

On the Los Angeles news tonight. ...

Jul 13, 2013

How they wound up there is anyone's guess. ...

Mar 17, 2014

I saw one advertised I was interested in, but wondered if the EMR is going to do away with that position, as well. Thanks for any info! ...