Thursday, November 04, 2010
India's Outsourcing industry uses U.S. government mandates for funding
I found a Wall Street Journal article discussing how India's outsourcing the new government mandate that illuminated a trend for a new source of outsourcing. The U.S. is moving to electronic medical records. The previous method of patient history was as you all know the "patient chart" literally a few pieces of paper in a folder. It is time to update those to easily transferable electronic records. India believes much of this workload will be outsourced due to the laborious task involved. Moreover, the U.S. Government has mandated this change and will actually give hospitals money to accomplish it. So, if you follow the flow of cash, the U.S. Government could be seen as sponsoring India's outsourcing industry. Should this work be done in the U.S? How do you feel about this?
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Well here is a question, who can do it quickly and cheap? The type of tasks that have to be carried out require a certain commitment and large amount of labor that is not present in the US because of wage requirements, work conditions, unions e.t.c. It will ultimately be cheaper in India (all things being equal). Should this be the case? Well some fine tuning will have to be done with federal regulations in order to allow for jobs like that to be done here.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what Moti is saying. Through working in the health services industry I have seen the need for these records to be transferred to electronic records. However, it is going to take a huge effort and is going to be extremely expensive. I think he is right in saying that it will be cheaper to outsource, and it would probably be prohibitively expensive to undertake without outsourcing at least a large portion of the records.
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