Perhaps one of the problems in the healthcare system is managerial training. With the passage of time, we have included in the course’s programs leadership and social skills, much needed training if we consider the impact of the leader's attitudes on the health outcomes of the organization. But we need another leap in the courses: that of information management. We need clinical managers with basic knowledge of programming and databases who understand the structure of health care information of a hospital or a health system.
In addition, it would be very interesting that training for managers include other much needed fields: data visualization, ethical and social marketing, collective intelligence and web 2.0, knowledge management and risk and crisis management. In this way, the system would have managers much more prepared for the challenges of this century.
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Perhaps one of the problems in the healthcare system is managerial training. With the passage of time, we have included in the course’s programs leadership and social skills, much needed training if we consider the impact of the leader's attitudes on the health outcomes of the organization. But we need another leap in the courses: that of information management. We need clinical managers with basic knowledge of programming and databases who understand the structure of health care information of a hospital or a health system.
In addition, it would be very interesting that training for managers include other much needed fields: data visualization, ethical and social marketing, collective intelligence and web 2.0, knowledge management and risk and crisis management. In this way, the system would have managers much more prepared for the challenges of this century.
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