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Advantages of Healthcare Outsourcing

Author: Sirisha Mangaraju

Introduction:

Outsourcing is the assignment of core services or operation of the organisation to provider that focuses in that area of service or operation .Most of hospital and top reason hospitals are choosing outsourcing support services to reduce operating costs. India is one of the best destination for the outsource of health care services .so many advantages are there by this outsourcing services.

Roles and responsibilities of outsourcing services and the benefits of outsourcing in health care sector……

Healthcare outsourcing has become gradually increasingly common as similar health system administrators try to enhance profitability and efficiency¹. While maintaining clinical excellence.

Outsourcing in the areas of emergency medicine, like radiology, laboratory services and environmental services provides concerning evidence of potentially large downside when outsourcing is driven by short-term cost concern².

Outsourcing provides many potential benefits to health care organisations. Outsourcing provides staff to operate the facility. There are some major advantages of outsourcing are Radiology, in the radiology the outsourcing routine X-ray and scans help to decrease the heavy workload for the hospitals in house physicians. This will help to patient such as improved patient care and to spend more time practicing medicine³.

Another major benefit is the cost-saving which is resulting from reducing the temporary staff and training associated with that staff. Organizations  can invest capital in new medical equipment and supplies rather than in staff and technology to complete core business process such as billing and coding ⁴.

Outsourcing vendors strive to provide the non-core services that allows the hospitals to focus on the business of servicing patients. If a hospital can shed some of the managerial responsibilities for some of the functions that support the healing environment they can focus more intently on the medical necessities⁵. Some benefits of the health care outsourcing are….

• Highest profit margin at a national cost
• Work completed ahead of to-do list
• Increase level of productivity and efficiency
• Make huge saving on capital expenditure
• Better business performance
• Accuracy 99.9%.

Conclusion:

Health care is a unique and consequential services, and the decision to outsource should never taken lightly⁶.

A framework of service outsourcing decision making is proposed as well as a set of outsourcing characteristics and resulting risks that are considered by firms outsourcing⁷. Outsourcing as an effective strategy resulting in increase in the personal, client and stakeholders satisfaction. It helps to increase benefits and decreases cost for public sector⁸.

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