MANILA, Philippines— The decision of incoming US President Barack Obama to spend billions of dollars to build a fully integrated health information technology system for American hospitals and doctors’ offices will generate new business for Philippine business process outsourcing companies, according to a domestic labor group.
The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) said it was counting on the conversion to electronic records by US hospitals and doctors to boost local outsourced medical transcription and data encoding service providers.
TUCP secretary general Ernesto Herrera in a statement said the next US administration was doing this to reduce costs and reinforce America’s health care system by having electronic records that could be shared online by hospitals, clinics, doctors, post-acute care facilities and home care agencies.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
RP to benefit from US plan on medical IT
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