by joeflower | Jun 20, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, Healthcare Beyond Reform Book, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
[Press Release] Sausalito, Calif., June 20, 2012 — With the Supreme Court’s decision on the healthcare reform act expected within the week, both hope and fear are building that the Court will stop healthcare reform in its tracks. But a healthcare futurist argues that...
by joeflower | Jun 8, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, Healthcare Beyond Reform Book, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
I’ve been saying it for years now, it’s the theme of Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right For Half The Cost — and now it’s even hit the editorial pages of the NY Times: A June 2 editorial, “Treating You Better For Less,” trumpets the...
by joeflower | May 23, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Policy, Top Healthcare Stories, Uncategorized, Universal Healthcare
We are entering the season of presidential politics, of bunting and cries of “What about the children?” and star-spangled appeals to full-throated patriotism. So here’s mine: Do you count yourself a patriot? Do you care about the future of this country? (And while we...
by joeflower | Mar 27, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Reform, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
In 1980, health care in the United States took no more of a bite out of the economy than it did in any other developed country. Then we instituted cost controls. By 2000, U.S. health care cost twice as much as everyone else’s. By 2020 or 2025, we may be back to...
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,...