HEALTH CARE

Health Care Industry Overview Grid

Health Care Industry Overview Grid

Industry

Career Explanation

Industry Examples

Role of Health Care Personnel

Manufacturing (Equipment/Supplies)

Health Care manufacturing deals with the making of consumer products that help individuals deal with health care issues. If it looks as if there is a market big enough to make a profitable product, the product is unique in the market and the product can be protected (via patenting or some other means) then businesses are commonly encouraged to dive into the expensive product development phase.

- Bandages, braces, IV tubing, hospital beds, wheelchairs

- Consumer health care products

Health Care personnel can move into this industry to satisfy a need within health care organizations. This would deal more with products than patient care or administration.

Pharmaceutical/Drug

Pharmaceutical representatives who wish to advance into management roles have a variety of choices. There are many levels of management and a variety of departments within most established pharmaceutical companies. For example, a sales rep can become a district or regional manager, or a Director of Sales, then Senior Director, on up to Vice President.

Additionally, reps can transition among various departments and manage different drugs and drug launches. Once you work your way up the chain, you may have to consider relocation to the headquarters, so be prepared to hit a ceiling or move. There are drug companies headquartered in a variety of locations nationwide, but California and New Jersey are major hubs, along with the midwestern region of the US.

Medical Industry, Community Pharmacy; Hospitals and Other Institutional Settings; Managed care organizations (MCOs)

Pharmaceutical representatives, also known as drug reps or pharmaceutical salespeople, provide drug information and product samples to physicians. Also, pharmaceutical reps monitor prescribing patterns of physicians in a given geographic territory. As a pharmaceutical representative, one would typically represent a particular drug or group of drugs, ...