Time for Turnaround
(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 . . .” ...
15 Ways to Make Healthcare Cheaper – By Making It Better
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...
15 Ways: Smart Medicine 2
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,...
15 Ways: Getting Into Details
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...
15 Ways: The Big Picture
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...
Health Care’s Perfect Storm
H&HN Weekly 3/3/09I recently spent some time in Gloucester, Mass., watching little boats—the precarious remnants of a once-mighty fishing fleet—toddle in and out of the narrow harbor neck. I thought about the so-called perfect storm, that combination of factors...