US healthcare reform offers opportunities for Indian cos

US healthcare reform offers opportunities for Indian cos

Chennai: The US healthcare reform announced by the president Barack Obama has thrown huge opportunities for Indian BPO, KPO, ITeS, revenue cycle management, electronic medical/health records (EMR/EHR) companies as healthcare providers in US are facing a tough time to meet the deadline.

Apart from huge demand for healthcare outsourcing professionals, particularly coding and billing professionals, requirement for professional in EMR implementation and RCM will be huge, said a research done by ValueNotes, a leading consultancy tracking the IT industry in India.

The Obama administration has been spearheading several changes to the US healthcare system. Cost pressures along with the after-effects of the recent economic meltdown have triggered major reforms intended to control healthcare costs and provide universal coverage. The reform, enacted in 2009-10, poses significant challenges for healthcare providers including a potential increase (estimated to be about 30 million) in the volume of records driven by rise in the number...