Outsourcing

Outsourcing clinical trials to India

Clinical research in India costs has become very easy and cheap compared to other countries, which has lead to an increased outsourcing of clinical research to India. Outsourcing in the field of IT can be taken as a boom to the economics and development of India, but Outsourcing in // clinical trials is a great havoc to India, as humans are becoming a source of experimental animals a...

Outsourcing Medical Records Risky: Unison

UK's biggest trade union Unison has alleged that medical records of patients that are typed outside the country have many errors that could cost the life of a patient. //Many NHS trusts are outsourcing the work to countries like India to save costs, the union said. However some typing errors like "hypertension", which means high blood pressure, instead of "hypotension", which means lo...

Lab Tests And Diagnostics - Next Wave Of Outsourcing

India is on the verge of another outsourcing wave: high-end laboratory and diagnostic testing! Indian labs offer a comprehensive test menu - over 1,500 tests under one roof. // A number of hospitals in the US and UK are outsourcing laboratory and diagnostic tests to India as it costs about 70 to 80 per cent less to conduct them here. At the moment, this is generally limited to highly-s...

GlaxoSmithKline Signs Outsourcing Deal With TCS

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Britain's largest drug company, // has signed an outsourcing deal with India's Tata Consulting Services to establish a drug development support facility in Mumbai. A company statement said that under the terms of the deal, TCS will support GSK's global clinical research and development programme by providing outsourced data management and medical trial reportin...

Outsourcing Farming, a Chinese Initiative

Plagued by scarce water supplies, China is turning to a new trading partner 15,000 miles away - Brazil - to supply more protein-packed beans essential to a richer diet//. For more than 2,000 years, the Chinese have turned soybeans into tofu, a staple of the country’s diet. In China, vanishing cropland and diminishing water supplies are hampering the country’s ability to feed itself....

Outsourcing of UK Hospital Records to India Opposed

Visions of deaths caused by possible mistakes made by medical secretaries in India have been raised to prevent transcription work in British hospitals// from being outsourced to India and the Philippines. Several hospital trusts of the National Health Service (NHS) have outsourced medical transcription work to India, with more considering the option to cut budgetary deficits. The move...

Irish Outsourcing of Smear Test may Result in Cervical Cancer Being Undetected

The Well Woman Centre of Ireland has warned that outsourcing of smear may result in cervical cancer being undetected in some patients. It could also lead to lead to inconsistencies in the interpretation of results by Irish doctors. The Well Woman Centre has criticized the Health Service Executive (HSE) for sending cervical smear tests to the US, as it could have serious ramificat...