Health Care Management: Totay’s Need

Bachchu Kailash Kaini, PhD

Health service is concern of everyone from policy makers to the public who consume services at different point of their life. Health care is a dynamic field with various specialities and sub-specialities attached to it. There are many types of health care professionals, who deliver services to service users through different types of health care institutions. They need to be managed and supported by health care managers, administrative and support staff. 

The modern health care institutions focus on developing and implementing stringent and structural system and processes for the delivery of quality services. Moreover, today’s health care institutions are being managed in a business model focusing on developing the best service models, delivering services in competitive price, utilizing resources in an optimum way, reducing wastage and making service users happy in many ways. 

In this context, health care managers and leaders play a vital role to deliver the best possible care to service users and to manage health care institutions in exemplary ways. Today’s health care managers are future leaders of the 21st century health care institutions who progress in executive roles in due course of time of their career. 

The revolution of leaders and managers in health care is brought about by planning, organizing, directing and control of health care institutions. Leaders and managers work through a team. Health care institutions rely on a strong and competent team. They benefit from health care managers and leadership and management training and courses to manage their workforce and resources. 

Health management gives insight of theories and practices of all aspects of leadership and management. The management development program, training and educational program in health care management should be designed in such a way that give skills, knowledge and competencies to be an efficient and effective leader who manage health care institutions confidently in any situations.