1. Talent Nurturing in Healthcare Informatics to
Drive Innovation
Sam Mehta
Director – Atlas Ventur
(values…knowledge…investments…footprints in time)
(www.atlasventurez.com)
Director - Dr Mehta’s Hospitals (www.mehtahospitals.com)
Director – India Home Heatlhcare (www.ihhc.in)
March, 2011

2. Objective Function
• Healthcare & Informatics Talent Challenge?
• Innovative Solutions to Talent Situation
• Basic Steps Practical
▫ Talk about and Share Our Solutions
▫ Participate…Participate…Participate…

3. Healthcare Talent Situation
• Global Healthcare Talent Shortage
▫ The World’s in Trouble
▫ Situation Deteriorating though Respite
▫ Issues with Quantity and Quality
• Healthcare Informatics
▫ Different Reality
▫ Talent Available but Multiple Participation Markets
▫ Pricing Talent Serious Issues – Cross Skill
▫ New Streams Evolving for Sub-Markets
• Talent Issues
▫ Tech Lag with Healthcare Complexity and Conservatism
▫ Speed of Change Slower – thus Not Cutting Edge
▫ Consumer Plays Growing – Tablets, Mobile, Big Data, Personalize…

4. Solutions to Healthcare Talent Situation
• Increase Production (Human Capital)
• Outsource Activities
• Increase Productivity

5. Solutions to Healthcare Talent Situation
• Increase Production (Human Capital)
▫ Work Longer or Worry More!
▫ Deeper Skill
▫ X-Skill
▫ Near Term and Long Term
• Outsource Activities
• Increase Productivity
▫ Collaborate
▫ Process Improvement
▫ Automate
Healthcare
Informatics
Professionals

6. Healthcare Informatics Talent Nurturing
• Demand
▫ How many Job Offers have you had in the Last 3 years?
▫ From what Industries / Sectors / Markets?
• More Complex viz Many Other Markets
▫ Automated viz Human Relationship Centric
▫ Partners in Game
 Heterogeneous Types and Time Starved
 Think you Will Save them from their World…or Complicate their Life!
• Talent Pricing
▫ How much would another Industry / Sector / Market Pay you?
▫ Remember Med Device…Biotech…Pharma…Payor Space…Provider Space…
▫ Can we Afford to Pay you what you are Worth?
▫ Competing viz Startup Bug

7. Talent Issues Broader…
• Tech Lag with Healthcare Complexity and Conservatism
• Speed of Change Slower – thus Not Cutting Edge
• Consumer Plays Growing
▫ Tablets
▫ Mobile
▫ Big Data
▫ Personalize…

8. Innovation in Talent Nurturing
• Play to Your Strengths?
▫ Security & Stability of Sector (Long Tail)
▫ Care and Social Focus
▫ Complexity thus Value and Learning
▫ Changing World…Opportunity to be Great
• Training & Learning Opportunities
• X-Skill Across
• Rewards
• Autonomy & Opportunity

9. Small Things Tomorrow…
• Treat them with Respect…Immense Respect
• Involve them with Broader Aspects
• Train Strong 2nd Line (incl. x-skilling)
• Change Benefits to Your Strengths
• Collaborate…Borrow Wisdom
• Value Up
SEO/SEM…Mobile/Tablet…Big Data…Personalize…xPrize…

10. Questions? Thoughts! Visions…
Contact: Collaborate, Advise, Support, Ideas, Jobs…for you or me!
sam@atlasventurez.com or sameer@mehtahospitals.com