[Prince of Space]

My long-time transcription job at a Phoenix hospital was just sent to India. The Indians doing American patient's medical reports are doing the job in their homes and have access to your SSN, DOB, address, and phone number, not to mention all of your medical information.

Heck, I had access to that information as well, but I never used it for nefarious purposes. Of course, I don't live in a 3rd world country making slave wages....well, not yet anyway.

Mrs. Prince of Space

[FourPeas]

I’m sorry about your job. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but I’d think something as technical and important as transcription would be done by a native English speaker. A family member did hospital transcribing and from the stories I’ve heard, having an excellent grasp of the language is essential.

I also know of health care companies that have outsourced jobs to India that involve having access to SSN, wages, personal heathcare information, etc. There’s no special security done on the Indian workers, and there’s no way of knowing what is done with the information they have access to — it all relies on the honor system. Scary.