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Indian business process outsourcing companies involved in healthcare are increasingly eyeing a niche business in the US healthcare sector. The healthcare sector in the US is undergoing a sea change due to the need for compliance to the Health Insurance Profitability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which might result in off-shoring a good quantum to other countries like India, according to analysts. "The verticals such as healthcare administration, medical management and imaging are in high demand in the US and India can make this a niche BPO area," a top functionary of Atlanta-based STI Knowledge told PTI. As of now outsourcing...

Online marketplaces like RAC (www.rentacoder.com) offer enough reason to generate effusive prose. It's the kind of place where 110,000 software programmers from across the world log on to earn a living. Of these, roughly 50,000 are Indians --all the way from Srinagar to Bhatinda, and Surat to Nagercoil. Put the 70-80 marketplaces like RAC together and a picture emerges of approximately one lakh Indian software programmers who generate about a billion dollars every year. At sites like RAC, mostly small and a few mid-sized American companies hoping to outsource their IT requirements post details of jobs that need to be...