Sunday, May 21, 2006

Healthcare and Offshore Outsourcing

Healthcare is probably one of the last industry segments that is going to be touched by offshore outsourcing in a big way going forward. The potential for offshore talent to be used to reduce cost is huge. There are a lot of companies that are already ahead of the curve other are catching up and a few have no clue what it is. Let us look at the landscape of what is going out of the country in each segment..

What does offshore outsourcing mean to Health care industry?

1. It means getting more done with less money
2. Faster turn around because of follow the sun 24x7 model of operation
3. Reduced cost of care to the patient
4. Every segment can be touched by this phenomenon - Payors, Providers, Medical Devices, Pharma, Biotech, CROs

In competitive terms causes a un even playing field between players, if Payor A outsources and saves $$ the other payor has little choice but to leverage the model. Hence the question is not "Will they?" The question is "when will they?"


Payors

1. "Greed is Good" - they live by that so early adopters
2. Claims processing is a dud job let the offshore vendors do it
3. IT application maintainence - throw it out to India
4. Application development - partly going offshore as it needs SME knowledge
5. IT infrastructure outsourcing - going going and gone..

Medical Device Companies

1. R&D services
2. Enterprise IT application development and maintainence services
3. IT infrastructure services
4. call center services for product support and claims management
5. Enhancements of device applications
6. Enterprise Planning application outsourcing - SAP, Oracle etc.

Providers

1. IT application maintainence and development services
2. Clinical process outsourcing - radiology reads, claims management, collections
3. Total IT infrastructure outsourcing

Pharma

1. One of the biggest adopters of the model
2. IT ADM services and Infrasturcture services
3. Pharma R&D services
4. ERP implementation services
5. Clinical Reaseach and Trials services


Ok.. hope that gives a flvour of what jobs will stay and what jobs will go. I feel there is enough money being spent by each of these industry segments to keep every resource busy.

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