An industry as large and complex as healthcare lends itself to job titles that you won’t find in any other industry. That’s why healthcare organizations increasingly find value in creating executive roles to oversee a bevy of challenges, from analyzing terabytes of electronic health records (EHR) to helping patients make healthier decisions to adapting to new business models.
Here are nine executive titles that are unique to, or inspired by, the healthcare industry. (Thanks to Stephanie Fraser of CHIME for offering some suggestions.)
Chief Medical Officer
If you enter a hospital and ask to speak to the CMO, expect to talk about medicine, not marketing. The chief medical officer oversees a facility’s care delivery and represents physicians within the administration. This means keeping a close eye on safety and quality standards and, increasingly, exploring ways to promote coordinated, patient-centered care. The CMO role also leads compliance, ethics, physician recruitment, performance benchmarking and both clinical and business planning efforts. (Note: In many countries, such as Great Britain and Ireland, the term Chief Medical Officer refers to the top doctor in the land – the equivalent of the U.S. Surgeon General.)
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