by jflower | Jan 24, 2010 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, New Healthcare Technology, Top Healthcare Stories
By Joe Flower, from Hospitals and Health Networks Weekly, 1/19/10Below the fold and off the radar, way out of the range of town-hall screamers, talk show ranters and headline writers, and even largely outside the awareness of most policy wonks and health care...
by jflower | Jan 24, 2010 | Healthcare 2.0, New Healthcare Technology, Top Healthcare Stories
Howard Rheingold has a pain in the butt – a big one – but how he is handling that fact is one snapshot of the rising power of social media in health care.Howard is a veteran futurist. Onetime editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, one of the founding figures...
by jflower | Jan 17, 2010 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Reform, New Healthcare Technology, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
Sharp, funny, and far too true: If airlines worked like health...
by jflower | Dec 10, 2009 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
If competition the way it is structured at present actually drives the cost of health care up rather than down, what would bring lower costs? What provisions in a “health reform act” would actually drop costs in health care? Let’s leave aside for the moment all the...