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India and the Phillipines. - Mountain typer

Posted: Dec 02, 2009

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.

Less than half, 2-3 cpl in India nm - BrokeMT

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Privacy issues will eclipse offshoring eventually - mte

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Once we are able to inform the public that their medical records are being sent offshore and explain to them the dangers inherent in that practice, it will start to pull back. It has already begun with the fed government who won't allow any records to go offshore. New York City has the same rule. It may take awhile with no advertising budget and just word of mouth. What we need is a way to inform the public.

I agree with you, mte! - Sunshine State MT

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People are up in arms about this insurance issue and not wanting our US government "seeing" their medical records . . .

They have no idea that they are being "seen" by Third World Countries with no regulations.

I agree with you and we need some way to inform the public because I "personally" feel that if the US citizens whether they went to the ER, hospital, MD office appointment knew that their records were being sent out of the country I think they would back us US MTs and hopefully change the course for the better!

Just my 2 cents . . . or is it 1 cent now!

In the meantime - Sam

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I am unemployed and someone in India or Manila is doing my job (to some degree). Email your state reps and also the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.

Amen!!! - kimba2

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You guys are so right! I have worked in the medical field for 10 years and am new to MT. I had NO idea that this offshore stuff was going on and it makes me SICK! I read somewhere that the state of California is not allowing this to happen. I agree it is only a matter of time before it is done away with. Do you think AHDI would ever help with the funding and try and get the word out, or is that just crazy talk?

The big sell out - travelinMT

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Kimba,
No way will AHDI do anything to help stop it, they are the ones that got it started. Years ago when I was teaching I was approached by one governing board members in AHDI and offered a job teaching Medical Transcription to students in India....that same person has a transcription service that was of the first services to partner up with an Indian company. Ironically she was having trouble finding instructors to go over there to teach because their semesters were opposite of ours and no one wanted to sit through 1/2 semester of no pay waiting for the job to start in India. Her solution to that for me was to offer me a job editing for her company until the semester started in India. She made it sound so good. You got a house, a cook/driver/housekeeper, clothing allotment, free phone call back to the U.S. once a week, once a month they paid for a night out to a play or opera and dinner at a nice restaurant. Sounds good huh? Yeah well I talked to a couple of instructors who fell for it...the house/cook/housekeeper/driver all lived in the house that you lived in with an Indian family.

Once they got their foot in the door and started raking in the money then other MTSO's decided they wanted a piece of the pie too.

I'm sorry they sold us down the river to the higest bidder.

Youre 100% correct about AHDI. - see msg.

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If anything is ever going to help us, it'll be somehow getting that organization and its lies out in the open for all to see, and with a bright FBI spotlight shining brightly upon it so it can be investigated and shut down. Or at the very least, run out of the US and straight back to India, where it belongs.

Maybe writing a letter to the "op-ed" page of your - areas largest newspaper?

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Or well-designed, eye-catching flyers posted on well-read bulletin boards. Posts on general forums in other areas of the Internet, not just medical. Where there's a will, there's got to be a way.

Advertising - Alice

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How about a direct, in-your-face method of advertising such as lapel buttons and bumper stickers? It's just a little bit louder than the standard word-of-mouth.

Could say something like, "Do you know who has your private medical information? Ask me!" OR, "When your medical record leaves the country, what happpens next? Ask me." "Ask me about your medical record." "FIGHT offshoring of private medical information"

I'm sure one of you can come up with a better statement.

In my area, I know that the local hospital has closed up its transcription department and DOES outsource to an MTSO that offshores to India. So, I can accurately provide that information to people local to me. Some really care and are shocked to hear it; others don't care. Of those that care, most will do nothing. If given a phone number to call, they might call it.

I think it would be most appropriate to have a flyer/brochure with a short, accurate, very careful statement of the situation, along with the names, addresses, phone numbers of the lawmaker who each person could contact in your respective state or region, or on the federal level. Regarding the federal level, I would think that would be the Dept of Health and Human Services, but I'm not really sure.

I've purchased business-related bumper stickers and lapel pins from the websites posted below. The minimum purchase for each is just one, and it is $4.95, including shipping:

http://www.makepins.com/

http://www.makestickers.com/

Simply passing out a flyer or brochure is a light approach, and avoids any heated discussions. Of those who accept a flyer, there may be one or two out of a hundred that will really respond. But, it is a start.

Some people will totally avoid, pretend not to see, act deaf and blind. That is their problem.

We do not argue or debate. We just state the facts and we move forward.

A number of years ago I got a bumper sticker with a - skull & crossbones on it that read:

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"Warning: HMOs can be hazardous to your health".

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