How I Think About Healthcare Strategy ft. Umang Jain
Umang Jain never planned on healthcare. He came out of an MBA in international business, moved through pharma and biotech, and landed in the UAE running strategy for NMC Healthcare, one of the region’s largest integrated providers with more than 70 facilities. In the first episode of The Health Stack, he and Shubham Mishra get past the usual talking points. Umang argues that a strategy office earns its place only when it reaches implementation and owns outcomes, not when it produces plans for someone else to execute. He explains why most digital health initiatives fail on generic objectives and diffuse ownership rather than on the technology itself, and why he sees the region’s fragmented data as a systems problem rather than an IT or clinical one. Then the harder questions. UAE insurance tariffs have stayed flat while staffing, pharmaceutical, and equipment costs climb, squeezing margins and pushing standalone hospitals toward consolidation. Is that consolidation a solution or just borrowed time? And can the GCC reach outcome-based care without repeating the slow, expensive transition mature markets went through? Umang’s answers are measured, specific, and grounded in eight years of experience. Listen to the full episode now!
