Healthcare: Industry Structure and Value Chain
Description
Comprehensive understanding of healthcare industry architecture, key participants, value creation processes, and interconnected relationships between different healthcare ecosystem components.
Learning Objectives
IT professionals will analyze and evaluate the healthcare value chain structure, identify key stakeholders and their roles, understand value creation mechanisms, and assess how technology solutions can optimize processes across different value chain components to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes.
Topics (10)
Study of vertically and horizontally integrated healthcare systems, their operational models, and the technology infrastructure needed to support integrated care delivery.
Introduction to healthcare as an economic sector, its contribution to GDP, employment statistics, and fundamental characteristics that distinguish it from other industries.
Detailed examination of Michael Porter's value chain framework as applied to healthcare, including primary and support activities that create value in healthcare organizations.
Comprehensive study of healthcare financing including private insurance, government programs, managed care organizations, and their impact on healthcare delivery and IT requirements.
Analysis of hospitals, clinics, physician practices, specialty care facilities, and emerging care delivery models including their technology infrastructure needs.
Examination of how employers, government agencies, and other purchasers influence healthcare markets, quality standards, and technology requirements.
Comprehensive overview of pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, healthcare IT vendors, and other suppliers in the healthcare supply chain.
Analysis of claims processing organizations, clearinghouses, third-party administrators, and their technology infrastructure requirements for healthcare transactions.
Detailed analysis of how patient data, financial information, and operational data flow between different value chain participants and the technology standards required.
Assessment of digital transformation initiatives, AI applications, blockchain, IoT, and other technologies that are reshaping healthcare value chains and creating new business models.