by joeflower | Jan 24, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Management, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
[This article first appeared in H&HN (Hospitals and Health Networks) Daily, January 24, 2012] 2012 and 2013 present a unique and compelling opportunity for health care executives to produce significant change. If we hope to be, as Buckminster Fuller said,...
by joeflower | Dec 4, 2011 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Management, Top Healthcare Stories
Ten existential questions will make the difference between stumbling into the future and thriving The questions have changed. The key strategy questions that the C-suite must be asking—and getting actionable answers to—are different now than they were in the past,...
by joeflower | Sep 22, 2011 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
[From Hospitals & Health Networks Daily, September 20, 2011] There is fire in the valley and smoke in the mountains. A plague is on the land and danger is afoot. That may be — maybe — the good news. Health care is more unstable than it has been at any time in...
by joeflower | Aug 4, 2011 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Reform, New Healthcare Technology, Top Healthcare Stories
Traditional drug and device research aims to show whether a drug or device has a some positive effect, and doesn’t kill or hurt any more people than not using it. Comparative effectiveness research (CER), in contrast, compares the drug or device with all...