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They offshore to India, if that bothers you.

Posted By: What I was told 2 years ago on 2007-03-15
In Reply to: Does anyone know anything (good or bad) about DTS America? Haven't been able to find anything at - libby

 


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offshore to India, it's OFFSHORE (off shore), not outsource to India.
nm
They offshore to India.
MQ is a large company & is most definitely not secure for US MTs. They've already reduced their number of US MTs drastically & are sending more accounts every day to India. Cbay eventually laid off ALL US MT and QA employees. Bigger does not mean more secure. The bottom line is that if a company will stoop to offshoring work to India, they don't care about patient safety or the welfare of their employees. We all have to do what we have to do, and if that means no other choice than working for a company like that, then that's part of it. But there are companies out there who don't offshore, and I feel nothing but resentment for companies that do.
plus I understand they offshore to India...
at least that is what they told me when I interviewed with them a few years ago.
All India, all the time... 99% goes offshore. nm
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They offshore...not about abuot India, but definitely to the Phillipines....
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offshore (out of country) to India ... not outsource.
nm
ad - "multispeciality clinic" - the acct they offshore to India
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Focus doesn't offshore to India, they are an Indian company
that offshores to the U.S.  They have an office front in MA, I think.  
None of that bothers me, but that's probably because
Surveillance is just the way things are now. Technology always has a downside, and this is one of them. Still, who would want to go back to the days of no Internet, no computers, no ATM cards, no eBay, no debit cards, no pay-at-the-pump gas stations, no Google (and UGH! having to trudge into town to the library every time you need information). The list is endless.

-Topaz-
What bothers me is hiring new MTs

for internet accounts (the ad running) while others who have been there are mostly on dial-up accounts waiting for them to transition I suppose.  That doesn't make sense.  If they are taking on new accounts, give them to the people already working there.


I have to say this is the best company I have ever worked for and I will never leave there but every time I get a second job the work picks up and then when I let the other account(s) go the work slows down so I just can't seem to get on board with them solely or figure out how to balance things.  Other than work slowing down and being low at times (and seemingly cherry picking unbelievably which I've never seen before here honestly but which I am seeing lately - unless it is a system issue with work popping up that wasn't there or getting reports that were seemingly skipped) I still think the company on a whole is heading in an even better direction with the things they are implementing and it is already the best around save for the problems lately.


The only thing that really bothers me - sm
about FN is the direct deposit thing. I really don't want to pay $25/pay period just to get my check on time. I'm having a rough time making my decision.
It's your attitude that bothers me. I have just as much experience as you do and I also
am much in demand, yet I do not happen to carry the attitude you have. This profession has enough prima donnas.
It bothers me because the mistakes I hear about

are stupid mistakes, like typing cereal instead of serial, or misspelling a doctor's name when we have a doctor's list, etc.   This is carelessness that could potentiall cause the account to be lost.  All the ones I've heard about were mistakes I know I wasn't making and it bothers me that I have no control over it and that 1 or 2 people who produce sloppy work jeopardize the account.   I haven't really had a doctor do a correction in an ugly way, but then again I'm not sensitive to them that much because I know I'm not the one doing these.  I'm not saying my work isn't being corrected, just that I have never head a correction dictated that I was guilty of.  


I also dislike it when the QA dept. sends out a stern e-mail to the entire company about stupid errors, when I know I wasn't making the errors.


If I'm signing my name to a document I want it perfect so I don't blame the doctors for going over the reports with a fine tooth comb.  The reports are a legal document and could also mean the difference in life or death of a patient if there are errors in the report.  


 


It is true. But, what bothers me is the possibility
that I will again be given the run around in an MT job this year. This would be the third time, and I do not know if I am willing to go through that again! I know taking any job into the unknown is a risk, maybe I am not prepared for any risk at this time in my job. Maybe it is not just the posts here, but the fact that it is a bad time to try again. Bird in hand worth 2 in bush and all that.
What bothers me the most is making total fools out of us to sit and
wait on work.  That really gets to me.  I think we all discussed this before but to expect people to sit around and make no money waiting on work to keep everything on the second is absolutely bizzare and then complain when you dont get lines in.  Well, wheres the work.
Public board. Free speech, and all that. If it bothers
x
I dont answer the mass emails she sends out. What bothers me is we are not anywhere
near out of TAT and she just then sends out these mass emails and everyone piles on and runs the account out.  Then when you get a few more reports she does it again.  It just keeps going on like that.  I have no idea what the problem is.  I dont acknowledge the emails at all I just cant get a grip on why someone would function like that.  It is almost like she isnt happy until she runs the account out and then expect all the ICs which we are to sit around until it comes back in and then be at her beck and call.  It seems to be getting worse and worse lately with this.  She has taken the word control to extremes especially with ICs.  She expects you to let her know if you are going to move your butt of your computer for a half hour.  I just dont get it but it gets extremely old I must say.
offshore overseas.... not outsource .... correct term is offshore.
nm
This seems to be pro-offshore board. Messages against offshore often just disappear.
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India, Michael. The MT world is going to India. Wonder why? nm
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If the transcribed files go to India, are sent out from India to be transcribed, sm

then the transcribed work is sent BACK to India to be pasted into the GEMS platform and then sent back to the clients in America, how on earth can the company claim to be US-based because its Indian owner has a home in Kentucky?


 


...or from India. nm
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so done with india
so done with india.... they can't make it w/o us americans
It all went to INDIA....
Spheris over-hired all right.  All of your work went to India to the Combitore office they opened up.  Look into some websites and you will find it.  Indiadaily. com or something like that.  It talks all about the nice growth they are experiencing in India with the new Spheris office.  They immediately hired like 300 or some MTs.  Now that is going to take a bite out of your work isn't it.  Get out of that place and find a place that is not giving all of our work to India.  Plain and simple!!  Let them have all India workers for a while and when the quality gets so bad and they have to come back to US MTs, well then you should ask for a better rate of pay as well.  Spheris does not deserve to have even 1 good US MT to work for them.  They are biting the hand that feeds them.  As a matter of fact, people should not even use the hospitals that use Spheris as an outsource.  There is more than one way to skin a cat!! 
Not ALL of it goes to India.
I do not work there, but I have a friend who does and she works on an account for C-Bay that does not allow the work to go to India. 
india

Just wondering, do these MT companies actually give computers in India to those people like they do for their employees in US?  At one point does the Editor know their editing a foreigner's work?  Just a question I had.


India says? Says where?
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yes to India
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India
Can it possibly be worth it to these companies by time the pay someone out of the country and then QA. Wouldn't it make more sense to just have an MT who could do the job correctly in the first place! Guess not - since they are all going this route.
India
As the owner of DIT, I can assure you that we most certainly do not outsource to anywhere. All of our work stays in the U.S., always has...always will. We subcontract with MTs all over the U.S.

Donna, Owner, DIT Transcriptioj
India
I posted something a few days ago after the acusis/DRC buyout.  I said I would have to tighten up the budget until I knew what was going on.  Today I tried to call a company about an account I have, thinking I would close it out.  After speaking with a gentleman for a few minutes I wasn't comfortable with the answer I got from him because I had remembered something different when I signed up.  I asked him where he was located.  He named some city in India!  I then said I wanted to speak with someone in America.  He said that was not possible!!  He kept asking me, Is something wrong with my answer?  I asked his name - he said Mark, which I doubt.  I don't know, if it wasn't so sad it would be funny.  Maybe this belongs on the comedy board.  I was speaking with a friend today who owns a small transcription company, and he says that pretty soon the Indians will be having the same problem we are becuase they will be undercut by China.
In India
nm
I believe it. The same for India.
x
India
Lost two small accounts completely that were okay.  Now getting primary, but they are the worse dictators in the pool - not seeing any of the halfway decent dictators.  These are all ESL.  I'm lucky if I get 80 lines per hour because they are SO BAD.  As usual, can't get a response from PS or WFC. I looks like the same situation here that the decent doctors have been shipped to India. 
MTs from INDIA
Please do not use this site to contact me to find you a job.  I do not agree with outsourcing and feel our jobs need to stay here in the US.  Please find your own job in your own country because there are jobs in India that pay India wages to India resident.
MTs from India
Anon..I agree wholeheartedly with you. I used to have my bio on one of the sites and it would never fail....I would get online about 6:30 a.m. our time and there would be 3 or 4 Indian people wanting to talk to me about wanting to work for me and how much they could help me. I told them I was very sorry, but I felt that we needed to keep our own MTs busy and thus I did not outsource. Took awhile for them to get the message, but finally they did. We have to keep putting this message out there....American work for American MTs.
MTs from India
Has anyone heard that recently Indian companies (from India)are now outsourcing to Romania? Seems that the Indian transcriptionists in India are becoming disgruntled about pay, and sweat shop labor. Too funny!!! So, okay, let's move on to another country and exploit them!! HaHa!! It never ends does it - it's all about the cheap.
India
According to a Wikipedia article: More than four-fifths of Indians practice Hinduism. Islam, practiced by around one-sixth of the population, is the most prevalent minority religion. Christianity and Sikhism are each practiced by around 2% of Indians.

Here's a list of Hindu festivals/holidays:
http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/extra/bl-alm.htm

BTW, I had occasion to communicate with the India technical people at Acusis around Christmas, and every one of them greeted me with Merry Christmas or something similar. They have always been very polite and respectful. Actually, the people I have the most issues in the upper echelons of this company are those in the States.
India - every now and then
I reply to them and send them voice files to try out. This last time, I sent 3 voice files. I took one look at the result and my fears were confirmed. If any doctor in the US were to say I FORCED the patient to take his medications we would have a problem. The culture in these other countries don't quite get it. Needless to say, I didn't follow through (which I wouldn't have in the first place anyway). Flame me if you like but I am not going to trust our medical records to countries who don't know our culture and would open us up to lawsuits.
About US MTs and India sm

I have been a QA Editor for quite a while.  I used to disagree when some companies state that they have a hard time finding qualified US MTs.....Now, from what I have been doing QA on, I have to agree with some of the companies.  Is it that the quality is so poor because MTs just do not care anymore because of the low pay?  I don't understand.  Some of the MTs that I QA claim to have 15 to 20+ years' experience......but the quality is just awful!!!


At this point, I would prefer doing QA on work typed by Indian MTs.....It shocks me daily when I see what I have to QA.  I assume these MTs have typed this way for so long, they are set in their own way, but it is just awful and I am about to start typing again as I am so tired of sending the same feedback over and over and over again!!


India vs US
I would disagree - I have been in this business a long time and the quality of Indian labor is far below acceptable. PRN typed as PORN, medicines spelled wrong, dosages incorrect, etc. etc.
india vs us
I am sorry but I have seen the work that comes from India and they DO NOT remember the feedback and use it. They make the same errors over and over. I have sent work back to India more than once and they still make the same error each time. Keep the work in the US! Figure the costs, 5 cents per line PLUS 100% QA vs 8 to 9 cents per line for US labor and the QA does not take as long.
India MT
How do you know they make 5 cents a line? My PMD (who is foreign) told me the India MTs make approximately $500 MONTHLY which is roughly $3.12 an hour if they work full time. He wants to start his own transcription business to offshore to India and wanted me to give him pointers! Some nerve!! I told him to forget it!!!
Well, we have India to thank for
chump-change pay. Just recently had an interview with a company who advertised they did NOT outsource only to find out they did and I immediately declined the offer. I will stick to my guns and hopefully find a company who values what I am worth!
They are from INDIA
http://www.offshorexperts.com/index.cfm/fa/buyer.profile/p/228601

Gee, they are even HIPPA (sic) compliant! I feel so reassured.
Not just India
I was doing research for my own edification and came across an acticle (from 2005 and the actual numbers may have changed but the scale hasn't) in a Manilla newspaper saying,
The Philippines graduates an average of 30,000 medical professionals every year and Filipino doctors, nurses and healthcare providers are acknowledged worldwide for their keen sense for details, high degree of productivity and credibility assuring clients of safety of any medical information.

Also, around 25,000 college graduates from the total 380,000 are said to be qualified to do BPO work, with starting salaries of US$1.00 to US$2.00 per hour.

Medical transcription is here to stay. With more companies improving their cost position ...
and that point I had to subscribe to read more, which I declined.

But did everyone catch that? $1 to $2 PER DAY??

You can bet your bottom dollar (and may have to) that places offshore are aggressively positioning themselves to battle the anti-offshore mentality that many Americans have. That was another quote I read in an Indian newspaper article but could kick myself for not making a note of where I saw it.

At any rate, they know a good thing when they see one and aren't going down without a fight. That is their right, of course. They're pursuing the American Dream (if you catch the irony).

BUT, but, but, but....we've been too complacent too long. They're positioning themselves for success and we're whining about our wages going down, and I'm as guilty as the next person.

Time to participate in the increasing number of posts that are calling us to action.
Most of their MTs ARE in India
The worst dictators are left for the few American MTs they hire.
What's with you and India?......
I have nothing to do with India.
You lost it completely.

You are too old for this profession, MT30+.
Again what's with you and India, you
keep mention this.

Do you regard this tehutmost insult you can give?

I said exactly the contrary.
You lost it and you are going against the flow, too oldfashioned.




India
Politics my dear... politics. It sure stinks, doesn't it?
Wow, you are in India, right? nm
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