Anthelio Business Technologies, an IT and business process outsourcing service provider to the healthcare sector, will hire 1,800 employees in the next 16 months, to take the total to 2,000.

About 15-20 per cent of the new recruits would be clinicians – doctors, both allopathic and homoeopath, dentists, physiotherapists and nurses.

“We started off operations with 75 in February and employ 375 now. We will hire 300 more by December 2011 and 1,500 more in the following 12 months,” Mr Viswanath Sivaswamy, Managing Director of Anthelio, told Business Line .

“At present, clinicians are 5-6 per cent of our staff. We would like to increase this to 15-20 per cent. The biggest problem is to convince those who fall under this group to switch to a technology job. India does have deep domain knowledge in healthcare but when it comes to clinicians with IT knowledge it is very scarce,” he said.

These clinicians would talk to doctors and other medical staff in hospitals and tell them how to address technology-driven processes in day-to-day hospital work. “Because they both speak the same language and convey the message to one another properly,” he said.

India focus

The Dallas (US)-headquartered company, which focused only on the US market as of now, has set its eyes on the Indian healthcare market that emerged as one of the top healthcare services provider in the world.

“We are assessing the opportunity here. There is good potential. But what we are looking at is affordability for hospitals. We are wondering whether we need to introduce low-cost solutions. There is no point increasing healthcare costs,” he said.

“Hospitals in the US are in a consolidation mode. Similar trend can be witnessed in service provider space too. We are open to acquire or ally with,” he said.

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