What Health Care Managers Need to Know–and How to Teach Them

"This is not a field for mile-wide, inch-deep managers"

Global health care is entering its most challenging era, with increasing demand for services from consumers newly arrived in the middle class, under-served people, and rapidly aging populations, all the while dealing with the need to manage advanced medical technology, transform core services to a digital platform, and the increased fiscal pressures created by the worldwide economic crisis.

Unfortunately, the educational programs for future health care leaders fail to provide many of the needed skills, according to a survey of CEOs of the world’s most innovative health care firms conducted by Harvard Business School Professor Regina Herzlinger.

Paul Guttry

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