Digital Leadership in Healthcare

Digital Leadership in Hospitals

Hospitals, insurance companies, and other healthcare organizations are facing significant changes in how they are doing business. Because the way healthcare providers are receiving reimbursements has changed, healthcare providers are experiencing pressure to reduce the cost of patient care. Many hospitals are challenged to reduce the rate of returning patients, improve patient satisfaction, and reduce in-hospital injuries.

Tanniru Strategy Partners works with organization decision makers to understand the specific and unique goals of the organization, as well as the main challenges that exist. Through our unique methodology, we will help you analyze your business operations and make recommendations to help you meet your goals. Refer to work we have done with hospitals and other organizations through our publications.

Digital Leadership in Population Health, Including Public Health

Different views of population health have surfaced, both in academia and among health practitioners. Some view it as a goal to achieve measurable improvements in the health of a defined patient population using preventive and care transition practices, recognizing the influence of social and economic factors, along with biological and environmental factors, on patient health outcomes. Digital transformation here includes understanding of the social determinants or factors that contribute to health inequities among patient population groups and develop interventions, innovative services, and technologies, in support of primary care or care transition post-hospital discharge.

Another view is to see population health as an approach – developing interventions to influence health outcomes. This is often the way public health agencies approached health promotion for preventive care. Such a view can have a process or policy focus to address population health. When viewed with a process focus, public health professionals use knowledge about various interrelated conditions and factors (i.e., health and social determinants) that influence the health and well-being of distinct population groups and design and develop preventive practices tailored to their needs. Public health 3.0 argues for transforming public health to design community strategies that use community partners and even populations, who want to self-manage their heath using personal technologies, to improve health outcomes.

For work we have done outside a hospital to address care transition post-discharge or preventive care, refer to our publications.

Digital Leadership in Global Health

As a Senior Investigator of Henry Ford Health System’s Global Health Initiative, I am privileged to work with many young professionals to fulfill their vision: addressing the healthcare needs of under-served populations in the US and around the world. Together, we collectively use several initiatives to advance this mission.

These include:

Continuing research on innovative processes and technology platforms that can be used to support underserved populations,
Exploring the viability of diffusing innovations that have shown promise in low to middle incoming countries (LMIC) to US (i.e., referred to as ‘reverse’ innovations),
Developing innovative IT products/services that can be used in rural, urban, and remote areas, and connect these with remote hospitals and other city and community services,
Organizing workshops to bring like-minded researchers and practitioners to share their knowledge and help improve access to care for the underserved populations, and
Applying for grant funding and seeking philanthropic donations in support of the GHI mission, a unit that is exclusively funded from external sources

My work in Canada recently (2022 Sep-Dec) to address issues and challenges in address access to healthcare among Indigenous population as a Fulbright Scholar Grant is one example of this effort.

I use classes in global citizenship or population health academy at the University of Arizona to instruct students from multiple countries (India, China, Jordan, etc.) and universities in the US (Oakland University and Lawrence Technological University in Michigan and U of Arizona) to work on projects related to global health and environmental issues.