Let’s create systems that will take on real risk and that will compete for customers based on real results and real prices. [This article first appeared in the March 15 edition of the American Hospital Association’s H&HN Daily] The current reorganization of...
There is a way to avoid a collapse of healthcare in this country. (This article originally appeared in Hospitals and Health Networks Daily, January 24, 2011) It’s getting scary. We are facing, before the end of this decade, a bifurcated future. The way things are...
The right payment structure keeps patients healthy while saving money. (Originally published in Hospitals and Health Networks Weekly, 11/30/2010) We want healthcare to be abundant, effective, easy, and cheap; for too many of us too much of the time it is scarce,...
This article 1st appeared on September 20, 2010 in HHN Magazine online site. They are coming in fast under the radar, out of peripheral vision, in the magician’s other hand—and they will change everything. New ideas, surprising networks, stealth business models...
Here’s a simple key to parsing the future economics of healthcare. We have been trying for over 30 years to control healthcare costs. And there is little evidence that any of these efforts have had much effect. For decades the rise in healthcare costs has been...
[By Joe Flower, from the May 17, 2010, issue of H&HN Weekly] The country seems to have shifted in less than 18 months from a slogan of “Yes We Can!” to “Oh, well…” and a shrug, then back to “Cool! I think. What was that,...
