Omega Healthcare to hire 1,000 in Bengaluru

Omega Healthcare Mangement Services Ltd would hire about 1,000 people over the next six months to expand its operations, the Indian arm of the US-based healthcare outsourcing provider said on Monday.

"We are hiring an additional 1,000 people in the next 6 months to expand our operations horizontally and vertically in Bengaluru where we have about 4,000 employees to provide various healthcare services," said Omega co-founder and Chief Executive Gopi Natarajan in a statement here.

The company has also 4,000 employees at its Trichy operations in Tamil Nadu, about 330 km from south of Chennai, making it one of the largest white-collar employers in the southern state in healthcare services.

The additional hiring will enable the company to sustain its 30 per cent cumulative average growth rate in this tech hub.

"We have been able to provide alternate career options to life sciences graduates by training and providing them the required skills. Through our Omega Medical Coding Academy (OMCA), we aspire to train more people in medical coding and give them a platform to grow in this field," said operational location head Julius Raj Stephen in the statement.

The company, which serves about 100 clients in the US, has expanded its offerings to cloud-based data analytic solutions by acquiring WhiteSpace Healthcare in early May for an unspecified amount.

The US-based WhiteSpace has a development centre in Hyderabad.

"WhiteSpace Health's guided business intelligence platform enables better patient outcomes and improved financial performance using advanced data analytics. It's cloud-based platform unlocks the data asset value by integrating data from multiple sources, including call centre, patient portals, electronic health records, practice management systems and billing systems," said the company in an earlier statement.

The solutions help healthcare providers improve practice engagement, reduce cost, improve productivity and meet the reporting of core measures.

The 13-year-old Indian subsidiary also has two more operational centres in Chennai and at Bhimavaram town in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh.

--IANS

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