Healthcare Management Skills

The healthcare market is considered to be one of the future growth markets par excellence, the expansion of which is being driven significantly by demographic developments and advances in medical technology. These factors and the control deficits in the system of statutory health insurance lead to a growing need for financing, which the legislature has tried to curb through ever stronger interventions, so far largely in vain.

Due to the unsuccessful state interventions and the increasing globalization and internationalization, competitive processes will play a dominant role in a future health care system. This will not only lead to an expansion of the range of services, but also to a change in organizational forms. Due to a closer integration of the service areas, the requirements will continue to change both in the inpatient and in the outpatient area.

In the future, new contract elements will promote the integration between the service areas. Therapeutic decisions thus also receive an economic reference. An important element will be the orientation towards the course of treatment of a disease, so that a holistic, individualized treatment management is required. In order to continue to be successful against the background of this emerging change in the healthcare system, managers not only need to have the necessary sensors and knowledge of the processes in the healthcare system, they also need sound management knowledge in order to take advantage of the opportunities that arise and the associated opportunities to limit the associated risks.