Now doctors jump into BPO bandwagon (India)

[OhioChick]

18 May, 2008, 1410 hrs IST, PTI

NEW DELHI: After engineers and lawyers, now doctors are also gearing up to join the BPO brigade, with the outsourcing firms opening up alternative career options for medicos.

With more and more outsourcing firms moving into healthcare sector and medical transcription, the job opportunities for doctors and nurses in the country are getting widened, an industry expert said.

In a BPO firm, the job of a doctor can include medical billing, transcription and coding for the US hospitals.

Medical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession, which deals in the process of transcription, or converting voice-recorded reports as dictated by physicians and/or other healthcare professionals into text format.

However, some companies like the Patni also provides high-end knowkledge process outsourcing where a doctor is required to study the reports of elderly patients and do risk assessment and prepare reports for health Insurance companies in the US.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Now_doctors_jump_into_BPO_bandwagon/articleshow/3050702.cms

[Skittles]

1. it's the downfall of America

we are seeing America disappear before our eyes

[OhioChick]

2. Yep....

Blue and white collar jobs are leaving in droves, not to ever be replaced. What will be left.....?

[Aragorn]

3. not just out-sourcing

Friends, this is a lot worse than that. Insurance companies etc are paying people with "a degree" (but not licensed to practice anywhere is the USA) to give an official position about need for care, payment, etc - after the fact. Texas uses a system in Tennessee (?) to decide whether or not to cover Medicaid patients for certain radiologic testing. Do you think they ever examine or even talk to those patients? This system is even worse. It's all about the money!