Far-Reaching Developments

Offshoring isn’t just a manufacturing decision by Joe Flower From H&HN Most Wired, May 10, 2006 The core meaning of offshoring is shifting, and that shift is about to penetrate health care on a FedEx timetable. In the past in high-income countries, offshoring...

Market Shifts

New treatments and hospitals’ attempts to cut inventory costs will cut into the medical device industry. By Joe Flower From Hospitals And Health Networks Online, March 14, 2006 Borrow this lens for a moment: For a look at the way internal and external stressors are...

The Systems Approach

Tough new questions reshape the health IT sales arena By Joe Flower From H+HN Most Wired, February 16, 2006 We are moving inexorably to a health care future that is highly automated, digitized and networked. Mounting cost pressures, clinical necessity, technological...