Dr. V K Singh inaugrated the Healthcare Course on 10th January 2018 at Indian Institute of Management, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh. He taught the session in the course of Prof. S Venkatramanaiah. The course topic was ‘Challenges and opportunities in Healthcare‘ and ‘Innovative models for Healthcare Delivery‘.

The main focus of this course was to understand the healthcare landscape, challenges and opportunities for organisations and healthcare professionals to understand the managerial issues in design and delivery of affordable and quality healthcare across the spectrum.

Objectives of Healthcare Operations Management (HOM) course was designed with the following broad objectives:

1. To understand the healthcare landscape and challenges at various levels of care delivery
2. To provide insights of operations strategy and relationships among stakeholders
3. To understand and address regulatory/policy issues on healthcare delivery
4. To understand the drivers of operational excellence and developing innovative healthcare delivery systems
5. To enable participants to recognize and model the decisions using analytical models
6. To understand various aspects of quality management in healthcare delivery and accreditation
7. To develop approaches for integrating human resource, IT and best practices in healthcare
By the end of the course, the students were able to:
1) Understand various challenges and opportunities for healthcare delivery
2) Role of strategy and execution on healthcare systems/organisations
3) Build suitable operations management models on care delivery
4) Understand the role of innovative approaches and continuous improvement on healthcare delivery