The right payment structure keeps patients healthy while saving money. (Originally published in Hospitals and Health Networks Weekly, 11/30/2010) We want healthcare to be abundant, effective, easy, and cheap; for too many of us too much of the time it is scarce,...
This article 1st appeared on September 20, 2010 in HHN Magazine online site. They are coming in fast under the radar, out of peripheral vision, in the magician’s other hand—and they will change everything. New ideas, surprising networks, stealth business models...
Here’s a simple key to parsing the future economics of healthcare. We have been trying for over 30 years to control healthcare costs. And there is little evidence that any of these efforts have had much effect. For decades the rise in healthcare costs has been...
[By Joe Flower, from the May 17, 2010, issue of H&HN Weekly] The country seems to have shifted in less than 18 months from a slogan of “Yes We Can!” to “Oh, well…” and a shrug, then back to “Cool! I think. What was that,...
It’s coming back!The health care reform debate is only through the first round. In a few years, as early as 2013 or 2014, we are likely to see another round, with at least as much whacked-out drama as this one. But the cry will not be, “Bring back the good old days!”...
Across the industry, as we move into spring 2010, the strongest desire I hear is to get back to some kind of “business as usual,” to breathe a big sigh of relief that we are past all that sturm und drang, all that public trauma and threat to our bottom lines and...
