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...
(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...
Financial management of healthcare organizations is a highly fraught subject, and has become more so in the past few weeks. How do you run the finances of a big organization when the only measure of the value of your products is the reimbursements you are paid for...
From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, September 9, 2008 Toward a value-based health care system. Do you get what you pay for in health care? How can you tell? What if you could tell?However we re-organize the payment of health care in the United States over the...
