A while back, when you heard someone refer to healthcare outsourcing, you knew they were speaking about medical billing outsourcing and coding services.  Now however, healthcare outsourcing can refer to a myriad of different fields.  Healthcare outsourcing companies have diversified their offerings in order to be able to fit into the sometimes overstretched budgets of healthcare providers creating solutions suited specifically for the healthcare industry.

With a recent acquisition and two new contracts signed and another two possibly in the works, TCS (NSE: TCS.NS) UK subsidiary, Diligenta, is expecting a positive run for the months ahead.

The first quarter results show the trends the companies will take in the succeeding quarters. Companies will continually lower costs through divestitures and workforce reduction and pay cut. Revenue generation strategies will be consolidation through mergers and acquisition and outsourcing.