the healthcare industry in india earns revenue accounting for 52 of the gross domestic product gdp experts in the sector predict an increase in revenue in the coming five years to almost 62 of the gdp healthcare has emerged as one of the largest service sectors in india and currently employment opportunities are provided to as many as four million people in the core healthcare segment or other related sectors the burgeoning scope of employment opportunities can be attributed significantly to the fact that today healthcare is not just about diagnosis and treatment of diseases instead healthcare refers to an umbrella of services that affect physical psychological and emotional wellbeing beyond the hospital there is the fitness industry health promotion holistic healing alternative medicine health insurance group specialties medical tourism medical transcription hospices healthcare of senior citizens and even health townships says s m sapatnekar director and dean crema with the increasing bandwidth of services there is a requirement for not just doctors but administrators managers supervisors and entrepreneurs among others sapatnekar adds that doctors today are required to undergo greater subspecialisations in comparison to a few years back joint replacements sensory implants organ transplants and cosmetic surgery are just some of the services that are being offered by hospitals that necessitate deeper subspecialisationshe further elaborates today owing to advances in medical research and better understanding of human body functions there are many more options at the biological level and a greater need for specialists moreover today there is a need for faster transport real time communications and standardisation of almost all processes and digitisation of data within the medical industryfor instance a coronary bypass operation needs a perfusionist who is second only to a heart surgeon transplants of organs cannot be contemplated unless there is strong support in terms of tissue matching tissue preservation transport of organs and arranging the donor and recipient in real time they may be at different locations each of these steps requires a specially trained health person career scope it is evident that in todays context healthcare entails a complex matrix of services consequently healthcare management has emerged as a discipline that holds promise for life science graduates and management graduates talking about some of the newer areas within the healthcare sector in which employment opportunities abound col s v ramany chief group operations sir ganga ram hospital says today within hospitals and medical chains there is a need for people who can ensure that their organisations have strong medical operational and financial footing to serve the needs of patients their families and communities these are essentially trained professionals who work in partnership with physicians nurses and other professionals they also help in educating community members about important health issues and work towards ensuring that hospitals and other healthcare organisations provide emergency and ongoing care as well as accurate and timely information about public threats in times of crisis ramany adds that healthcare executives who can be either specialists in charge of