Healthcare Management Beyond Textbook | Part-1 | At NFSU Gandhinagar
- October 8, 2025
- 12:48 pm
In this interactive session with NFSU-Gandhinagar, we discuss some interesting sectors that fall under the healthcare umbrella. The healthcare industry encompasses a wide range of sectors that work together to maintain and improve health. It begins with hospitals, which provide direct patient care, emergency services, and specialized treatments. Diagnostic services play a crucial role in detecting and monitoring diseases, enabling timely and effective interventions. The pharmaceutical sector focuses on developing and distributing medications and therapies that support patient recovery and disease management. Insurance ensures financial protection and wider access to healthcare services, reducing the burden of medical costs. Medical devices and healthcare IT further enhance efficiency, precision, and connectivity, making healthcare delivery more advanced and accessible.
Summary
The seminar covers practical healthcare management beyond textbooks, emphasizing real-world expectations, sector-specific challenges, and defining 18 distinct healthcare sectors—including hospitals, clinics, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, insurance, labs, medical equipment, health IT, and biomedical waste management—each with unique business formats, licensing, and infrastructure needs.
Raw Transcript
[00:00] Our discussion will be you can say hospital management or a healthcare management beyond textbook because whenever you start your job maybe your intensive or any kind of your professional
[00:20] or not in health care, you are not going to carry a book. Before starting, I would like to know what you are expecting in this seminar. I think Ma'am has said with you about
[00:40] people about this session. So you must have certain thoughts which what on are going to discuss in this seminar. So just your your thoughts what you are expecting you are expecting
[01:00] some career guidance are you expecting any other things? Reality of the ground. Reality of the ground okay any other expectation? Current dreams. Current dreams okay. Challenge is here.
[01:20] Let us say healthcare industry we are going to discuss the different perspective, but we should know that what includes healthcare industry.
[01:40] I have defined 18 sectors where we should look at healthcare industry completely. The complete picture includes 18 sectors.
[02:00] Now sectors, what does it define sectors? Let us understand what do we mean by particular sector in an industry.
[02:20] that sector has a particular format of business or
[02:40] that sector required separate licensing or so. So, we should define that is a separate sector. We will discuss in later just while we should consider particular sector separately in the industry this.
[03:00] And in that sector, there might be separate infrastructure requirement. So we should consider it at a separate level.
[03:20] sector. For example, hospital major sector health care industry in a health care industry hospital is a major sector right. Now, this is our first.
[03:40] health care industry you can you consider also clinics, nursing homes, reservoir in this one sector right. Why it is a separate sector in the health care industry?
[04:00] Because it has a separate business format, right? Licensing required separately. Third, its infrastructure, need and requirement is unique for that particular business.
[04:20] So, that we should consider it as a separate sector. What will our other sector you guys can think about it? Now you got the basic idea right?
[04:40] Diagnostic. Diagnostic, yes good. Diagnostic is a separate sector right. Pharma. Pharma c. Yeah, pharmaceuticals.
[05:00] Okay, good. Barbecuiticals.
[05:20] In the case of sector, these three criteria should at least one or two criteria should be there. Marketing is what marketing? Marketing also include hospital marketing, diagnosis.
[05:40] These are, marketing is subject. Insurance. Insurance, yes, health insurance is a sector, right? Lab. Okay. Lab will consider it in the labs for the right. So, here you can say, absolutely. Okay.
[06:00] Diagnostic means radiologic, pathology, microbiology, all things will be included. Medical equipment. Medical equipment, manufacturing means yes, medical devices and equipments, right. Good.
[06:20] else can I do it.
[06:40] Health care IT and tech right or health technology or health care IT that is the sector, separate sector. Biomedical. Biomedical means what? Biomedical waste, biomedical equipment or biomedical science.
[07:00] Waste management. Waste management, waste management will be a subject, right. Your biomedical waste is generated in hospital, it is generated in diagnostics, it is also generated in pharmaceuticals also where they have us.
[07:20] that laboratory and all inside them. So, there's again a subject.
