[lelio]

The Indian government recently decided to keep medical transcription a nontaxable industry
Sounds like the US should do the same for here, and tax foreign work.

your medical records, along with your SS#, and other pertinent information could be going overseas
How long till someone realizes that offering a person $500 to a person that makes $5k a year is enough of an incentive to give them any information that comes across their desk? I'm waiting to see some CDs printed with everyone's SSN from their records being sent to India.

[right-sidedNYer]

How long till someone realizes that offering a person $500 to a person that makes $5k a year is enough of an incentive to give them any information that comes across their desk?

This is always one of our arguments. Americans are not above some pretty sleazy stuff - I'm not foolish and/or arrogant enough to think otherwise - but the cost to find someone willing to do some pretty sleazy stuff overseas is going to be a heck of a lot less than it is here. Again - who would then enforce any laws we have in place here? First rule of medical transcription - confidentiality. Confidentiality, confidentiality, confidentiality. It's drilled in to our heads from the day we start training and working. We sign confidentiality agreements - and now there's HIPAA - which some companies have paid big bucks to make sure they are in compliance with. If I were to break that confidentiality agreement - there would be financial penalties I'd be responsible for. That's not going to be the case overseas. Who the heck would enforce it?

People should care that there medical records are going overseas, if for no other reason than to have them as accurate as possible.