Indian Healthcare System & Role of Higher Education

Dr. Kamal Kishore SharmaFellow of IIM Ahmedabad

Professor & Dean, School of Management StudiesAnsal University

Gurgaon

…the bottomline first

While science of medicine will keep evolving, where we are failing is in the management of the health care system

…prevention is better than cure

How big is the problem errrr…the opportunity?

• Fitch - double its size over 4 years ~ US$ 100 bln by 2015• Frost & Sullivan ~ US$ 160 bln by 2017• India will need ~ 1.75 million additional beds by 2025• 189 mln to be > 60 years of age by 2025 higher

healthcare spends• Investment need >500,000 crores to achieve 1 doctor, 2

beds & 2.3 nurses per 1000 people by 2025• GoI increasing health expenditure to 2.5 % (1.4%) by 2017• Technology/Telecom revolution explosion of

Healthcare Information Technology Market in India.

Science or Art ?

Need for professional management…closer to art

•Professional doctors - two-fold problem• “management” task pretty arduous• unable to devote sufficient time to their patients

•GoI (through PPPs) - public hospitals also need to be run professionally

Multi dimensional focus…again closer to art

• Draws from disciplines as wide as behavioral sciences, applied social sciences, biomedical sciences, and social policy• Health Care domain coverage:• Health Care Field Application Project• Health Services System • Managed Care and Nursing Care • Health Policy: Health Care Reforms & Future of Indian Health Care Industry• Economics of Health Services Delivery• Legal Aspects of Health Care • Financial Management of Health Institutions Health Care Marketing • Comparative & Indigenous Health Care Systems • E-Health: Business Models and Impact • Health Care Entrepreneurship • Private Sector Role in Health Delivery

What do we expect from Health Care Managers?• Understand and manage the opportunities and challenges in the

environment• Develop a strategic level of understanding of the healthcare industry

domain & its components• Active collaboration with medical professionals to assist in practical

problem analysis and decision making• Help comply with codes and regulations in the health care industry• Participate in ongoing community education • Marketing, community & government liaisoning, insurance

administration

…in short bring professionalism in the art of management of health science

Managing the Learning Curve• Focus – Knowledge as well as Leadership• Faculty – need to keep pace with the

dynamism• Pedagogy – Conceptual & Analytical

skills necessary by products• live case studies, projects, seminars, guest

faculty interactions, practitioner sessions & simulations.

• A trans-disciplinary professional learning environment

PREPARING BUSINESS LEADERS

FORHEALTHCARE SECTOR

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ANSAL UNIVERSITYSector-55, Golf Course Road, Gurgaon

Tel: +91 124 4750541/ 99101 22364Toll Free 1800 200 5520

www.ansaluniversity.edu.in