Will the stimulus create jobs in the U.S. or India?
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Answer: In both countries.
I’ll bet you that President-elect Barack Obama’s job math will be fuzzy when he details the part of the $800 billion or so stimulus going to improve health care IT.
Many of the planned health care IT improvements, eliminating paper, creating portable electronic documents for patients and building vast databases to connect it all, involve application development and maintenance, which is the bread and butter of the offshore industry.
There is no doubt that this development work will be sent offshore by U.S. IT firms. Overseas firms may bid directly for this work but will likely get it as subcontractors. (more…)