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| erich 2005-12-27, 10:52 am |
| Greetings!
I am a medical transcriptionist and a resident of the Philippines. My
colleagues and I are interested in setting up shop and we would welcome
an opportunity to transcribe reports for doctors working in the US. We
have all the equipment and software needed to transcribe the reports
here but we do not have the technical knowledge or the software needed
to receive the voice files that the doctors will be sending. We are
also unfamiliar with the way home transcription works. We are
interested in finding individuals with firsthand info on how the system
works from the dictator side and we would like help in sourcing
accounts for our venture. Anyone who could help our venture would
naturally be the marketing and managing facet of the venture while my
colleagues and I could handle the production side of the project. We
are all experienced MTs and all of us are graduates of allied medical
courses. We are in dire need of help as most of the people in the
transcription business here are very reluctant to share their learning
experiences. You may email me at erich_espiritu@yahoo.com.
thank you very much.
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| Jeannie Wilson 2005-12-27, 10:52 am |
| "erich" <erich_espiritu@yahoo.com> wrote here for all to
seenews:1135695456.620744.111200@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:
> We are in dire need of help as most of the people in the
> transcription business here are very reluctant to share their learning
> experiences. You may email me at erich_espiritu@yahoo.com.
Internet searches will provide you with much of the information you need.
If that fails, perhaps you could hire a consultant.
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The colleagues in your area would definitely be the ones to consult
because simply receiving the sound files and transmitting the reports
are the least of your worries. The most important factor is HIPAA
compliance, which is something all MTs must be concerned with, but more
so anyone outside of the U.S. You may or may not receive much
assistance on this side of the ocean as many MTs are not too happy
about losing work because it has been outsourced to countries whose
employees will work for a fraction of what is the going rate here.
Sorry, that is just my honest opinion and no reflection on your
abilities as your post seems grammatically clean.
erich Wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I am a medical transcriptionist and a resident of the Philippines. My
> colleagues and I are interested in setting up shop and we would welcome
> an opportunity to transcribe reports for doctors working in the US. We
> have all the equipment and software needed to transcribe the reports
> here but we do not have the technical knowledge or the software needed
> to receive the voice files that the doctors will be sending. We are
> also unfamiliar with the way home transcription works. We are
> interested in finding individuals with firsthand info on how the system
> works from the dictator side and we would like help in sourcing
> accounts for our venture. Anyone who could help our venture would
> naturally be the marketing and managing facet of the venture while my
> colleagues and I could handle the production side of the project. We
> are all experienced MTs and all of us are graduates of allied medical
> courses. We are in dire need of help as most of the people in the
> transcription business here are very reluctant to share their learning
> experiences. You may email me at erich_espiritu@yahoo.com.
>
> thank you very much.
--
JCav
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| RaeMorrill 2005-12-27, 5:55 pm |
| Sounded like the OP was saying people "here" aka the Phillipines - were
not very helpful. At least this outfit was smart enough to use a
frontman who can communicate well in English. I'd be amazed if the
actual transcriptionists are as capable.
JCav wrote:
> The colleagues in your area would definitely be the ones to consult
> because simply receiving the sound files and transmitting the reports
> are the least of your worries. The most important factor is HIPAA
> compliance, which is something all MTs must be concerned with, but more
> so anyone outside of the U.S. You may or may not receive much
> assistance on this side of the ocean as many MTs are not too happy
> about losing work because it has been outsourced to countries whose
> employees will work for a fraction of what is the going rate here.
> Sorry, that is just my honest opinion and no reflection on your
> abilities as your post seems grammatically clean.
>
> erich Wrote:
>
>
>
>
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| Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to send 2005-12-27, 5:55 pm |
| RaeMorrill wrote:
> Sounded like the OP was saying people "here" aka the Phillipines - were
> not very helpful. At least this outfit was smart enough to use a
> frontman who can communicate well in English. I'd be amazed if the
> actual transcriptionists are as capable.
I think that even the average Filipino has better English language
capabilities than the average Indian, so I wouldn't be surprised.
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| erich 2005-12-28, 10:53 am |
| Hello again!
Thanks for the messages guys. Medical transcription as a profession is
fast becoming a rave here as most people are lured by the promise of
higher pay and being able to work from home. Most of the older MTs are
graduates of medical and allied medical courses like physical therapy,
dentistry, medicine, biology, medical technology, pharmacy, etc. It is
sad to note however, that recent news features on medical transcription
refer to it as a high-paying job that anyone can do so long as that
person understands English. This, of course would spell a downward
spiral in the quality of MTs this country produces. We understand your
concern about your jobs and I urge you guys to take it as a challenge.
You are better than us.
Regards,
erich
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| RaeMorrill 2005-12-28, 12:51 pm |
| There is no challenge. I recently lost work when the client my MTSO had
went to (we found out afterward) India. It was out of this office's
hands from a corporate practice and the doctors were very happy with our
work (and I know that because one of the ones I transcribed told me so).
There was nothing I could do or could have done (save work for dirt
perhaps) that would have changed that. Trying to turn out high-quality
work had no bearing on this.
erich wrote:
> Hello again!
>
> Thanks for the messages guys. Medical transcription as a profession is
> fast becoming a rave here as most people are lured by the promise of
> higher pay and being able to work from home. Most of the older MTs are
> graduates of medical and allied medical courses like physical therapy,
> dentistry, medicine, biology, medical technology, pharmacy, etc. It is
> sad to note however, that recent news features on medical transcription
> refer to it as a high-paying job that anyone can do so long as that
> person understands English. This, of course would spell a downward
> spiral in the quality of MTs this country produces. We understand your
> concern about your jobs and I urge you guys to take it as a challenge.
> You are better than us.
>
> Regards,
>
> erich
>
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| Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to send 2005-12-28, 12:51 pm |
| erich wrote:
>
> spiral in the quality of MTs this country produces. We understand your
> concern about your jobs and I urge you guys to take it as a challenge.
There is no challenge. MT is considered a cost center, and with the
current drive to control costs, everybody is trying to minimize the cost
of transcription.
And it's not only transcription - there are other fields where work is
being outsourced to overseas because they will take the tradeoff of
mediocre quality for a cheap price. Unfortunately, that creates a
snowball effect.
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