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[quote=fat_lazy_union_worker] Question: Anyone want to comment if radiologists are being outsourced to overseas doctors??? Don’t know. But that seems like to be a possibility. Anything seems to be a possibility with this outsourcing fear. [/quote]
Yup! There is even a term for it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleradiology
Telemedicine in general is a *huge* growth area. I know a few IT folks working in that arena, in fact.
However, I’ll comment that the outsourcing is more likely to go to another US hospital rather than overseas.
A great example of how nothing is safe from outsourcing is InvisiAlign. It’s basically off-shoring orthodontic work to Costa Rica.
Note that this hasn’t exactly put American orthodontists out of business. Patients still need to see a local dentist during the treatment process.
The whole trick with outsourcing is to embrace it and figure out how to benefit from it, vs. fighting it.
