Teaching Leadership for Population Health: How to Hit a Moving Target
The Annual Meeting brings together individuals from the fields of healthcare management education, practice and policy. Together we learn about the changing health system and share ideas and proven practices in educating future leaders. The Annual Meeting features provocative and innovative speakers and engaging sessions. We strive to champion fresh ideas and forecast innovative directions in health management education. The Annual Meeting also provides a wealth of opportunities to engage in informal networking with faculty working in both domestic and international programs.
This year’s theme, Teaching Leadership for Population Health: How to Hit a Moving Target, will help participants learn about an important and timely topic that has become ubiquitous in discussions throughout the industry.
Teaching Leadership for Population Health -- current and future leaders must understand the concept of population health and how to bring people, technology, and organizations together to improve the health of individuals and communities. Many in the field of practice are struggling with conceptualizing population health and seeing the role of hospitals, other healthcare providers, social service, and community organizations in achieving these goals. Leaders are moving from a focus on volume to a focus on value.
At this year’s meeting, AUPHA’s member programs and their participating faculty will learn and discuss how to make sure future generations of healthcare leaders have the competencies necessary to succeed in a “new world.” Those future leaders will no longer be rewarded for doing more but for doing better for a defined population.
How to Hit a Moving Target -- The full manifestations of the new world are not fully known today, but at a minimum it will be one in which clinical decisions are made with the assistance of more robust information; one in which the clinical workforce is increasingly dominated by primary care providers; and one with vastly greater integration of both the patient and the community. Leaders will need to collaborate more than ever before and become effective at working with increasingly diverse patients and populations. As educators, these changes present a challenge for us as we strive to modify existing curricula and create entirely new content that meets the future needs of today’s students and alumni.