By Joe Flower, from Hospitals and Health Networks Weekly, 1/19/10Below the fold and off the radar, way out of the range of town-hall screamers, talk show ranters and headline writers, and even largely outside the awareness of most policy wonks and health care...
Howard Rheingold has a pain in the butt – a big one – but how he is handling that fact is one snapshot of the rising power of social media in health care.Howard is a veteran futurist. Onetime editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, one of the founding figures...
Sharp, funny, and far too true: If airlines worked like health...
If competition the way it is structured at present actually drives the cost of health care up rather than down, what would bring lower costs? What provisions in a “health reform act” would actually drop costs in health care? Let’s leave aside for the moment all the...
(From H&HN Weekly, November 24, 2009)It’s not easy being a futurist, but I will make a bold prediction: no clear victory, no simple end. What we will get, one way or another, is years of turmoil, re-definitions, new rules and shifting markets—an industry under...
Here’s a health care reform strategy that I have not heard anywhere else. Think about this:Why aren’t health plans more aggressive in promoting the long-term health of their members, like getting them to eat better, stop smoking, get a little exercise, and all that?...
