An overview of healthcare project management

Healthcare a booming evergreen sector has lots of job openings that come in form of different healthcare projects (or) product. To be a part of healthcare project it takes some level of technical expertise related to this project. However, the number of projects demands quality healthcare project managers. Field personnel (or) healthcare technicians can easily switch to position of client facing project managers as they are familiar with clients and projects ongoing. However to be a project manager to take care of a healthcare project it means much more. The person is expected to be having functional experience in the domain he is working on for few years. On top of it comes the project management knowledge. So it would be like healthcare functional knowledge 25% and project management knowledge 75%. How do I obtain the 75% expertise needed for project management? It comes in various forms : 1) Experience working on a past project 2) Reading on project management 3) Common sense To find a job as a project manager in healthcare industry what is needed? The 25% functional knowledge comes with silos the person has been working on. So, it may be disregarded in some cases. A good example would be if a person has experience managing a web application there is a good chance that he might be considered for EHR/EMR implementation. This is the case with many projects in healthcare IT To really crack a job "PMP Certification - Project Management Certification" plays a pivotal role. This is the king of project management certifications and cracking PMP entitles you to easily obtain job as a project manager