From the American Hospital Association Weekly, 9/15/09If you’re thoughtful, if you’re thinking about how health care in the United States actually works; if you’ve been following the bouncing ball here about why it costs so much for such mediocre results, you’re...
(From the July 7, 2009 Hospitals and Health Networks Weekly)How can we tell what health care "reform" will mean for providers, really, on the ground? Politicians, the "chattering class," and especially broadcasters whose income depends on their...
(by Joe Flower, from TheHealthCareBlog.com)You want healthcare reform. I want healthcare reform. Grandma Jenkins wants healthcare reform. What is healthcare reform? What kind of animal are we talking about? How would we recognize it if it came up and bit us? What are...
(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...
I count at least 15 ways to make healthcare better, faster and cheaper for everyone. All of them are about value: finding what works and what doesn't at what price, finding ways for people who use healthcare and whoever pays for it to choose that value, and...
From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, November 11, 2008 Too often, ideas take on a partisan coloration, doubly so in an election year. And the colors are often rather arbitrary. From a systems-thinking point of view (and shorn of their partisan labels), which...
