by joeflower | Feb 16, 2013 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Reform, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
The very forces creating a better, cheaper and more available health care industry also can be used to create monopolies, raise costs and degrade care. Which future strategic model will prevail? Rapid change is engulfing health care across the United States, but the...
by joeflower | Nov 29, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
Costs and revenue: This is the oxygen of any business, any organization. What are your revenue streams? How much does it cost you to produce them? Life is not just about breathing, but, if you don’t get that in-out equation right, there is nothing else life can...
by joeflower | Sep 25, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Reform, New Healthcare Technology, Top Healthcare Stories
(From the American Hospital Association’s H&HN Daily, September 25, 2012) Doing more with less. Doing the most for the least. Seems like the biggest magic trick ever. It’s invisible, people don’t seem to even notice you’re doing it. You do it every day. And...
by joeflower | Aug 10, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, Healthcare Beyond Reform Book, Healthcare Management, New Healthcare Technology, Systems Thinking
In Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing it Right For Half The Cost I lay out the five strategies that healthcare must adopt, and is adopting in various ways and places, to make healthcare better and cheaper at the same time. Strategy Five is “Rebuild Every Process.” It’s...