Thesis Statement for Job Outsourcing

Job outsourcing is a detrimental practice for the domestic job market. While some good things can come from it, generally speaking, a job needs to stay in the U.S. for the U.S. to thrive.

6 Articles

falseAli, Abbas. International Journal of Commerce & Management14. 1 (2004): I,II,III.

Geishecker, Ingo. Labour Economics vol. 15 issue 3 June, 2008. p. 291-314

Ghimire, Bhumika, Ubiquity, ISSN 1530-2180, 08/2005, Volume 2005, Issue August, p. 2

"The Healthcare Off-shoring Industry in Developing Economies- Institutional and Economic Foundations: An Indian Case”, International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 24, Issue 6 (July 19, 2011)

“Offshore Outsourcing-How safe is Your Data Abroad? Overview of Privacy, Data Protection and Security”, Global Jurist Topics, Volume 6, Issue 2 (September 09, 2006), p 1204

Roy Chowdhury, S. Economic Modelling vol. 27 issue 1 January, 2010. p. 380-387

Professional Articles about Job Outsourcing

Geishecker, Ingo. Labour Economics vol. 15 issue 3 June, 2008. p. 291-314

This paper analyzes the employment security of individuals. It combines household incomes and other factors and the results are then discussed.

Roy Chowdhury, S. Economic Modelling vol. 27 issue 1 January, 2010. p. 380-387

This article really takes a look at the North and South and determines the job industry or lack there of by geographic location and issues. It also takes into account the fact that job outsourcing has such an effect on job loss.

“Offshore Outsourcing-How safe is Your Data Abroad? Overview of Privacy, Data Protection and Security”, Global Jurist Topics, Volume 6, Issue 2 (September 09, 2006), p 1204

This article concentrates on the information we hold so dear going overseas to be obtained by anyone. It is a dangerous practice.

"The Healthcare Off-shoring Industry in Developing Economies- Institutional and Economic Foundations: An Indian Case”, International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 24, Issue 6 (July 19, 2011)

This article focuses on the outsourcing of Medical transcription, billing/coding types of jobs. It finds that the medical industry is shifting from a low to high value information technology enabled health care services.

My popular audience

I think the popular audience for job outsourcing is the middle class American with a middle class American job. While a lot of the jobs going overseas are actually more administrative, the middle class American is the one that reads the story in the newspaper or sees the blurb on the news. We are the ones that hate calling the phone lines and getting someone in India that we cannot understand. Our audience needs to know things are getting bad because we know they must get bad to get better.

Genre Analysis Rough Draft (VERY ROUGH)

An Abstract

Amanda Alexander

Outsourcing of jobs is a problem many Americans face these days. One career affected tremendously by this is Medical Transcription Technology. Popular opinion ranges from not even knowing MTT existed to being very concerned by the fact that our medical information is being sent overseas to other countries for dictation. Professional opinion seems to concentrate on the lack of security around our records but defends the practice as good business sense. How can eliminating American jobs really be good business sense? How can our information stay protected when we are willingly giving it to others?  Understanding that we all need to make money in this world helps me to cut the industry a little slack. Voice recognition software has become popular with many doctors and could provide some help in reducing costs of transcription in the long run. Our information is being jeapordized by sending it overseas.

Unfortunately, outsourcing usually only bothers those that it directly affects. The larger jobs tend to be noticed when jobs are outsourced. A company sends 300 jobs to China and it will be in the newspaper and on the news. A hospital sends 2000 dictations to Asia and no one bats an eye. MTT outsourcing is not something the average Joe knows about much less cares about, until they catch wind of the practice and figure out they are affected by the process.

Having our own information compromised is not acceptable for most of us. The popular opinion runs with the fear. Fear of whom might have our private medical information. HIPPA only protects each person so far and doesn’t include MTT.

Professional opinion still stands firm that, while it is not ok that our information is out there for anyone to see, it is a necessary evil of industry. Costs are rising and everyone needs to cut corners and reevaluate needs. Do we need to keep this one MT working? I pay her .12 per line when I can pay someone in India .03? Easy choice, right?

We can pretend this trend of outsourcing doesn’t exist but it does. We are stuck in the throws of it all. We need to protect our jobs.

 Works Cited

“Offshore Outsourcing-How safe is Your Data Abroad? Overview of Privacy, Data Protection and Security”, Global Jurist Topics, Volume 6, Issue 2 (September 09, 2006), p 1204

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The Healthcare Off-shoring Industry in Developing Economies- Institutional and Economic Foundations: An Indian Case”, International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 24, Issue 6 (July 19, 2011)

http://www.longwoods.com/content/18426

http://library.ahima.org/xpedio/groups/public/documents/ahima/bok1_022546.hcsp

http://www.majorhealthblog.com/outsourcing-of-medical-transcription-common-issues

Professional Perceptions about Outsourcing Jobs

It appears to me that the professional perception of outsourcing jobs in the medical field is that it is just a necessary part of the business end. Transcription costs money to everyone involved. The business side has to take hold at some point. It is clearly cheaper to outsource jobs to other countries. We now understand that our information is only protected so far and this is a definite exception. Though we run the risk of having our information compromised, it will continue to happen.

 Works Cited

“Offshore Outsourcing-How safe is Your Data Abroad? Overview of Privacy, Data Protection and Security”, Global Jurist Topics, Volume 6, Issue 2 (September 09, 2006), p 1204

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The Healthcare Off-shoring Industry in Developing Economies- Institutional and Economic Foundations: An Indian Case”, International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 24, Issue 6 (July 19, 2011)

Popular Perception of my Hot Topic

Medical Transcription (MT) is one of the types of jobs that no one really thinks about. Many do not even know it exists. Having been a growing trend for a while, jobs are becoming harder to find for recent Medical Transcription Technology programs. One of the reasons that this is true is the act of outsourcing the dictated medical paperwork, many offshore. Pakistan, India, and other Asian countries are just examples of where our information and jobs are going. While an important part of our medicinal field today, HIPAA’s privacy rules apply only to healthcare providers, payers, and clearinghouses that are covered entities. This does not apply to MT’s necessarily therefore, information can be exchanged overseas for the work.

Backers of such practice site expense and convenience as major roles in the choice to outsource MT. It is hard to understand that the buck can be strong enough to render Americans jobless and put our medical privacy at risk.

The websites I found were far and few between with real information to them. I suspect this could mean a trend to keep jobs here? I plan to research this much further.

http://www.longwoods.com/content/18426

http://library.ahima.org/xpedio/groups/public/documents/ahima/bok1_022546.hcsp

http://www.majorhealthblog.com/outsourcing-of-medical-transcription-common-issues