8 Healthcare Management Books Every Leader Needs to Read
Looking for the best healthcare management books?
Smart choice. When it comes to leadership, one of the things that separates elite achievers from the average is a hunger for improvement and new, innovative ideas.
This is especially true in healthcare. Things are changing so quickly that you can gain a massive advantage by reading the latest strategies from the industry’s prolific innovators.
I’ve spent the last few decades of coaching hospitals and hospital leaders on increasing revenue, and over that time, I’ve come across just about every healthcare book there is.
And in this post, I’ll show you my 8 must-reads if you want to succeed as a healthcare leader.
8 Great Healthcare Administration Books (In No Particular Order)
1. Introduction to Health Care Management by Sharon B. Buchbinder, Bobbie J Kite, and Nancy H. Shanks
Often considered required reading for aspiring healthcare managers, Introduction to Health Care Management is one of the most succinct, reader-friendly textbooks you’ll ever read.
It gives a great overview of the most common situations and important issues within health management—from cost management to ethics.
2. The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care by Eric Topol, MD
In The Creative Destruction of Medicine, cardiologist and medical school founder, Eric Topol, provides his perspective on the future of healthcare.
He argues that despite resistance by the industry, the digital transformation will create better healthcare. And I couldn’t agree more.
Big data, innovation, wearable technology, and the patient-first revolution will begin to repair our broken healthcare system.
3. Growing Physician Leaders: Empowering Doctors to Improve Our Healthcare by Mark Hertling
Who holds the keys to massive healthcare transformation?
Retired Army Lieutenant General, Mark Hertling, argues physicians do.
But the problem is, despite exceptional training in the science of medicine, most doctors have received little leadership training.
Mark seeks to change that by providing a proven leadership process in Growing Physician Leaders.
4. The Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations 8th Edition by Peter M. Ginter
The Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations gives you a proven process for strategic thinking and leadership as a healthcare administrator.
Peter M. Ginter’s processes have become the de facto standard in the industry.
5. The Health Care Manager’s Human Resources Handbook, 2nd Edition by Charles R. McConnell
You’ve no doubt been impacted by the unprecedented rate of turnover in the healthcare industry.
What can you do about it?
In his book, human resources expert, Charles R. McConnell, gives you a roadmap for working with your HR department to better manage your personnel.
It covers everything from operating with fewer staff members to successfully navigating mergers and acquisitions.
6. The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care by Clayton M. M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, and Jason Hwang M.D.
From the author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, The Innovator’s Prescription offers a solution for America’s crumbling healthcare system.
It provides several approaches that could improve healthcare while reducing costs using what the authors call “principles of disruptive innovation”.
7. Jonas & Kovner’s Health Care Delivery in the United States 12th Edition by James R. Knickman Ph.D. and Brian Elbel Ph.D. MPH
This highly acclaimed textbook on health care delivery gives an overview of the complex issues surrounding America’s healthcare system and policies.
Designed specifically for graduate students of healthcare management and administration, it provides an objective appraisal of why and how we organize health care the way we do.
8. The Patient-First Revolution: How a New Era of Healthcare Administration Is Taking Care of Business by Taking Care of People by Brian Sanderson
My new book, The Patient-First Revolution, is the only book on this list with a free chapter available for download. In it, I outline a proven healthcare management blueprint that can save your hospital from losing market share to telehealth and health tech startups.
By the end, you’ll understand why the secret to boosting net revenue in 2022 isn’t about making more money per episode of care—it’s about taking such good care of your patients that you win more episodes of care, because your patients trust you (and only you) to take care of them.
If you follow this exact process I’ve used with hospitals across the nation, it can increase both your revenue and market share—while also skyrocketing patient satisfaction.
Grab a free chapter of The Patient-First Revolution here—and in 5 pages you’ll discover a brand new way to do your patient experience.
These Healthcare Administration Books Will Give You a Huge Leadership Advantage as Our Industry “Goes Digital”
Healthcare, as we know it today, will be a thing of the past within the next 5 years.
The digital transformation will give consumers more choices and power—while also reducing costs.
This will improve healthcare for everyone but many health organizations will struggle to adapt.
The result for hospitals?
Slowly dwindling revenue and market share.
But you can set your organization up to thrive in the new world of healthcare by becoming a Patient Management Organization.
And that’s exactly what I talk about in The Patient-First Revolution.
If you haven’t downloaded your free chapter, you can do so here:
