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Offshoring to India - earlymusicus

Posted: May 27, 2010

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 in the States are paid all that much.

I'm confused.

Cheap labor - see message - Anonymous

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And that has lowered everyone's wages because the companies know they can always find someone else to do the work cheaper than what they pay US MTs, and yes it comes back here for someone else to correct.

Re: Offshoring to India - earlymusicus

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It seems a stupid practice, to me. And as I said, it doesn't seem like US transcriptionists are being paid all that much - what do the Indian workers get paid? 1/2 cent a line??

And it's not just this field, either. The whole concept of offshoring is ruining the quality of life here in America, for everyone (except, of course, those at the top). We won't have any kind of an economic recovery until companies are forced to bring the jobs back here. I don't how that could be accomplished but something needs to be done. You can't have a strong nation if everyone is unemployed or, at the least, underemployed.

Oh well - who am I? A nobody, in the general scheme of things.

Republican mentality - is what it is

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I know not all Republicans feel this way but in general as a party as long as those at the top are getting paid and there are profits it doesn't really matter how those profits are made or how many of the little people lose their jobs. Just my opinion though!

Precisely why Ive voted against all of them - consistently for 30 years! nm

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India.. - king

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Do you think the Indian MTs are happy with the kind of pay provided to them.

Companies are duping Indians too in large extent. They not just pay less.. They dont pay us in so many occasions. There is no need to get it back. It is on the verge of coming back, as they are not getting quality MTs in India.

Judging by how the MT biz works in America, Im - sure the Indian pay is being - s/m

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constantly chipped-away at, just like ours here in the US is. It's the nature of the MT business: Crunch those numbers, make those profits, get as much as possible for as little as possible from the peons, no matter how adversely it affects their lives. After all, they're "expendable", and there's always someone else, in some other country, who will gladly do the job for less.

Yes, lots of other business operate that way. Lately that sort of dishonesty seems to be a cancer that is spreading rampantly through all American business, not just MT.

But still... just because "everybody else is doing it" doesn't make it right. Right is still right, and wrong is still wrong. And the deplorable exploitation practiced by most MTSOs in this country, as well as others, is just plain WRONG.

* Rocky Raccoon *

Thats why anyone considering a malpractice suit should - have their lawyer check their medical - sm

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records, and investigate where those records were done. Slipshod transcription would only be condoned by a slipshod hospital or medical group, and might help them prove their case.

It's hard to believe organizations that have malpractice targets painted on their backs, who hire and pay big bucks for Risk Management people, etc., are so stupid as to blow off their medical records, and those who produce them, as "unimportant fluff" in their organization.

voice recognition software - santhosh

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Voice recogniotion software now does most of the MT work, that is why MTs are not getting work properly. For example, Focus company executes its 70% of work by voice recognition only. By voice recognition, they need only editors and proofers and not MTs. If Americans not getting work, the method of executing work by voice recognition is the main reason and not the process of offshoring MT work to India. The percentage of MT work offshored to India when compared to total MT work of USA is very less. If Americans to get work, they should persuade the MT companies not to execute work by voice recognition.

Offshoring to India - vintagefine

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If they're paying us 8 cpl, they're probably paying 3 cpl in India, so that would be the attraction.

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