MUMBAI, April 24 -- Inventurus Knowledge Solutions (IKS Health) aims to be the leader in the US rural healthcare outsourcing market after its acquisition of TruBridge on Thursday, its top executive said.

"IKS is in the business of taking away or outsourcing chore tasks from healthcare providers in the US, so that they could focus on their core of taking care of patients.when you look at rural healthcare and RCM (revenue cycle management) within rural healthcare, TrueBridge is the largest player by far," IKS Health founder and global chief executive officer (CEO) Sachin Gupta told Mint in an interview. "In the rural healthcare market segment, once we combine effectively with TrueBridge, we will be the undisputed leader," he added.

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