(by Joe Flower, from TheHealthCareBlog.com)We can actually say what a better healthcare system would look like, if we look at healthcare in the United States as a complex adaptive system stuck in a Nash equilibrium. The ideal reformed healthcare system would be...
(by Joe Flower, from H&HN [Hospitals and Health Networks] Weekly, 5/5/09)“Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart: the center cannot hold . . .” ...
I’m going to say something that may surprise you. There are lots of ways to make healthcare cheaper by making it better. It’s not like getting your fender fixed. People who use healthcare – you and me – have no way to tell what’s...
Here are three more ways to make healthcare cheaper by making it better. These three are about smart medicine. First: It’s a dirty little secret, and if you’re not in healthcare, you might not know it, but most doctors still don’t use simple things...
Here are three more "smart medicine" ways to make healthcare cheaper by making it better. This first one that might be kind of surprising, because it is not high-tech at all: For any procedure that has standard steps that are important, use a simple,...
Here are three different ideas that are about what we do, for whom, for how much. The first one is about a difficult reality: We spend vast sums on heroic measures trying to save frail elderly people who are very near death, people that everyone involved knows are...
