The financial situation of many Swiss healthcare institutions remains tense: Costs are rising, tariffs are sluggish, investment scope is narrowing. At the same time, the pressure of expectations regarding quality, resilience, transparency and transformation is growing. Anyone with responsibility in this challenging situation – in finance, controlling, corporate development or operational management – needs steering skills: the ability to prepare and prioritize decisions under uncertainty and to anchor them effectively throughout the organization.

This is exactly where the Health Care Conference Switzerland 2026 comes in. On Tuesday, May 12, 2026, the community will meet at the Rapperswil campus of the OST – Ostschweizer Fachhochschule – for the conference of the ICV Sector Work Group Health Care. The program is deliberately designed as a decision-makers’ forum: compact, practical and dialogue-oriented – with enough space for exchange at eye level.

Central perspectives will be brought together in three keynotes. René Heule (CFO ASANA Group) will show how controlling is changing in hospital management: away from pure reporting and towards active capacity, performance and results management under tariff and cost pressure. Reto Greber (Swiss Paraplegic Group) sheds light on how business intelligence and controlling are becoming a management infrastructure – and what it takes to ensure that management cockpits not only exist, but are actually used in day-to-day management. Isabella Arndorfer broadens the horizon with an unusual but highly relevant perspective: under the title “Corporate governance under pressure”, she shows what healthcare organizations can learn from central banks about supervision, responsibility and crisis resilience.

One highlight is the moderated fishbowl “Controlling emergency admission”: Participants bring in real cases from everyday life, which are processed live in a structured manner (symptoms → diagnosis → intervention → KPI → routine). The result: concrete options for action and practical management impulses that can be taken directly into your own organization.

The conference is aimed at financial managers and executives from hospitals/clinics, as well as stakeholders from Spitex, insurance, medtech, consulting and healthcare services. Anyone who not only wants to discuss management issues, but also improve them, will find a forum with substance here – supported by the non-profit ICV, with a clear practical focus and a strong network.

More information at: https://icv-controlling.com/en/events/health-care-conference-switzerland