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Is my account going to India? There's work, but only ER. sm - estyhouse
Posted: Jul 31, 2010
Was told long time ago, the Indian MTs are very good, but not when it comes to American jargon. Wondering if this was the tip off.
I am so dumb - anon
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I was told twice that I was losing accounts -- one started with an "H" and the other with a "U." The way that it was phrased, I assumed they were chosing another transcription company because their contract was up. Now that I have been with the Q longer and am a LOT smarter, I think they went Indian~~~~~
I saw somewhere that more accounts were moving to India on July 1. Did that include a huge NY account including clinics that went through a large in-house audit about 2 months ago?
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Gosh this make me sick! It is not my primary account, but I have worked on this account, one you can actually make good money because almost no ESLs. Hopefully the little indians will screw up! ...
Everybody leave Medquist....go get other work -- working at McDonald's pays more and has better
benefits - at least you get to eat.
And see how well India does all the transcription -- they can't do it -- we do the hard work and they get the
cream. We are sitting her dying with their bad machines and bad dictators.
Let them have it -- they will corode.
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What a flippin joke. Didnt Amy say she was going to keep us in 1 account????
OMG, I have done evey account in my BOB this morning as well as some other Bob.
I cant keep my head on straight anymore. It is spinning like a top. My production is down to minimum and I am at risk of being fired for not meeting production because some idiot decides to open the cesspool!
GO CCMs! GET YOUR 100% TAT... SCREW THE REST OF US. ...
.... I read notes below to this effect. Oh, and don't forget to NOT count QC lines and scores when you calculate your QA score on FIESA.
...or just ignore it altogether.
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Not trying to be ignorant of things, but I read A LOT of reference to ESL dictators and work going to India. What are ESL dictators exactly? I am asking because I've worked for this company only for a short time, but I don't have any dictators that are ESL (I am assuming English second language speakers correct)? other than what is normal for my region AND I also have not lost any work to India.
I am concerned though as it seems to be a trend. I rarely run ...
Concerning Global Info Systems. Someone said they outsource or are owned by Indians. Well, they say they just got a contract with US government (Department of Defense). A 5-year contract. Will they outsource that?
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Why are these Indians taking over our jobs? Why are companies being bought out? Who is getting the money when these companies are bought? The government is cracking down on illegal Mexicans being in US - so why are they not cracking down on Indians. Are Indians legal here? ...
Was just curious really about how much MTs in India make. No wonder so much work is going over there. They can make around 5000 rupees a month, which is about $125 in U.S. dollar a month, plus line count bonuses. It makes me so angry that MQ is playing a part of the downfall of our economy by offshoring, instead of trying to help our country out by keeping work here. Wonder how much the unemployment rate would drop if every MTSO in this country stopped offshorin ...
India is doing our QA now!!??? I don't think so. Just argued one already where she "thought" he/she heard something different and then marked me for a MAJOR deduction. Arghghghghgh!!!! ...
My employer won't admit it but all of this month the work on my account will go from 50-75 reports well within TAT to suddenly nothing and this happens between 9-9:15 p.m. Typically that volume of report would last me and the others on the account until 11 p.m. or midnight. Ironically I note that 9 p.m. in the US is equal to 9 a.m. in India. Why don't they just admit they're giving work to India and stealing it from us, leaving those of us scheduled to work until ...
For the last two nights I have been editing almost all reports from MTs in India. The reports go through 2 MMEs in India and then come to me. It is amazing since they are supposed to be so "good" at what they do, that just about all of the reports come through with errors in them that were not picked up by MMEs in India. Just a thought. ...
I wonder how much editing the MTEs from India are actually doing. In the report was typed Cranberry Whistle as a medication when it was actually cranberry, Vistaril 25 p.o. q.4-6 h. p.r.n. in a medication list. Since the MTs from India are supposed to be much smarter than US MTs and this report went through 2 levels of editing in India, wonder how much they actually look at the report or do Google searches. Never heard of Cranberry Whistle as a medicatin. Brother. G ...
If the economy ever gets better, most of us will leave for jobs that pay better. Once they don't have enough of us, they'll simply send the work to India rather than pay us more. They will continue to insist on paying low wages. I think they saw an opening when the economy tanked with too many people, including us, looking for a job -- ANY job and took advantage of the economy by transforming this job into a minimum-wage job. Then they could tell the hospitals how cheap they could ...
I forgot to ask this question in my last post:
Assuming that most of us are getting 8-10 cpl, what are the Indian and Phillipino MTs getting? Half? Less than half?
Also, assuming that the need for MTs will continue somewhat - how long do you all think it will be before all the remaining MTSOs will outsource to India and the Phillipines - for nothing else, but to reduce their MT overhead??
Now I'm really depressed, and I have to start work.
Thanks everyone.
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What is the attraction about India, that so much of the transcription is being sent there? It seems to me that someone for whom English is a second language would not do very well in transcribing reports from the U.S. I would expect that a lot of those reports would have be heavily eited or completely re-done. So why offshore it in the first place? Am I missing some information here?
It can't be all about salary, because from the postings here, it doesn't seem like transcriptionists i ...
As compared to the total medical transcription work of US, the portion of MT work outsourced for India is very less it seems. Some are blaming offshoring of MT work to India as a cause of cheaper pay rates for US MTs. But the fact is different. Now a days MT companies in US are switching to voice recognition method of their MT work which requires only editors and proofers and not MTs. Hence MTs are eliminated from the scenario. The voice recognition software is doin ...
On numerous occasions over the past year I was told by my CCM that the reason they are outsourcing to India is because there is a shortage of qualified MTs because the average age of an MT is 55 and they are starting to retired. Like the infamous ***** and is ridiculous claim about 650 lph on ASR, that MTs have an IQ of about 6.
***** Do not name/identify individuals. Moderator ***** ...
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In your browser type in india.com and you will get "The Economic Times", one of India's newspapers. Interesting. What is even more interesting is to put in CBay up in the search bar (top right side) and watch what comes up. More information on CBay, but from India's newspaper perspective. Interesting to say the least. Always good to get an objective opinion!! ...
Here's a link to holidays in India. My opinion? Don't work on these days. It's the closest thing you can get to a strike. Could be interesting.
http://www.travelindia-guide.com/holiday_calendar.aspx
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My husband is in the stock market and has been checking up and reading things about MedQuist. MedQuist is now in a transition of sending more to India than ever before. According to the CEO and COO, they are looking to increase their volume of 15% of MQ total work to 45% in the next 6 months. The purchase of Spheris was a smokescreen. The contract with Spheris was that they could come in and set up shop with their own people and move the MQ folks out. Which is ...
I didn't know atleast was a word. I love the 100% HIPPA complaint processes. You've got to love it!!! See site for more errors.
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I have been waiting for hours, no work today, nothing. This is per usual anymore. My last several accounts went overseas, it would not have hurt the MTSO I work for to have kept me on any of the accounts anyway and they won't give me a secondary so that when the work does come in they can keep a tight TAT. I've been looking for other opportunities, but just can't seem to find anything. I don't have a car so have no transportation to even try find ...
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