jflower, Author at Joe Flower Healthcare Futurist https://imaginewhatif.com/author/jflower/ Healthcare Speaker, Consultant Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:21:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Futurist’s Office Stolen by Pirate, Saved by Entrepreneur  https://imaginewhatif.com/futurists-office-stolen-pirate-saved-entrepreneur/ Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:21:52 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3969 Sausalito, CA. In the pre-dawn rain on January 22nd, a silent figure crept aboard a 107’ luxury converted tugboat for sale in a prime berth in downtown Sausalito, CA. He loosened the 10 heavy hawsers tying the boat to the dock and set the boat adrift, snapping electric and water lines. That’s when Joe Flower […]

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]]> Trump Friend and Ally: Donald, Build Universal Healthcare https://imaginewhatif.com/trump-friend-ally-donald-build-universal-healthcare/ Thu, 16 Mar 2017 23:42:20 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3812 Opinions are flying. Opinionators with a plan to fix healthcare in America are suddenly as common as waiters with a script in Santa Monica. Few are worth a second glance. They fall into the “that’ll never pass” pile or the “that’ll never work” pile. So why should we pay any attention to Christopher Ruddy’s idea? […]

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]]> Asking the Wrong Healthcare Questions. And Answering the Right Ones https://imaginewhatif.com/asking-the-wrong-healthcare-questions-and-answering-the-right-ones/ Thu, 09 Feb 2017 21:53:04 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3740 I just published this Big Think post on Medium.com, because it’s time for more people, not just the choir, to understand what’s going on in healthcare. We’ve all got to stop asking the wrong questions about healthcare – who pays for it – and we’ve all got to start asking the right ones – what we pay for […]

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]]> Not Normal Chaos https://imaginewhatif.com/not-normal-chaos/ Sun, 22 Jan 2017 03:33:15 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3598 The short version of Vox’s Sarah Skiff on “Why Republican Disarray on Health Care Doesn’t Doom Repeal Efforts” would read something like: “It always looks this way in the throes of preparing major legislation. Remember how wild and confusing it was when the Democrats were trying to put together healthcare reform in 2009? Joe Lieberman was insisting on a public option, ‘pro-life’ Democrats […]

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]]> MACRA: We Can’t Expect the Feds To Be The Key Lever of Change https://imaginewhatif.com/macra-we-cant-expect-the-feds-to-be-the-key-lever-of-change/ Sat, 22 Oct 2016 18:55:36 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3160 The final MACRA rules are out. MACRA stands for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), the historic Medicare reform law that passed last year that nobody outside of healthcare has even heard of, and everyone inside the industry is in a sweat about. There is plenty of room for debate about the rules, […]

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]]> Data-Driven Health Care: Better Faster Cheaper https://imaginewhatif.com/data-driven-health-care-better-faster-cheaper/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:50:05 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/?p=145 For the first time, we have the potential to use real data to drive the effectiveness of health care. But large practical obstacles bar the way. We can’t get there from here without specific action and real leadership from across the industry.

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]]> Facing The Physician Crisis https://imaginewhatif.com/facing-the-physician-crisis/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:48:23 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/?p=140 More than half of our current physicians intend to retire or cut back their practices at the very time that 30 to 40 million new people are entering the system, and the Baby Boom is entering its years of “peak medicine.” The necessity of producing more doctors, and emphasizing primary care, is obvious, but the […]

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]]> Nurses: Key To Better Faster Cheaper Healthcare https://imaginewhatif.com/nurses-key-to-better-faster-cheaper-healthcare/ https://imaginewhatif.com/nurses-key-to-better-faster-cheaper-healthcare/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:46:41 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/?p=136 We now actually have considerable experience, data, examples, and outcomes of pilots that show exactly how to provide better health care, for less, for everyone. They have a number of factors in common, such as much more emphasis on primary care, prevention, and chronic care; teamwork; tight control of processes; and partnering with patients. All […]

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/nurses-key-to-better-faster-cheaper-healthcare/feed/ 1 The End of Health Care As We Know It: Techniques, Techologies, Treatments https://imaginewhatif.com/the-end-of-health-care-as-we-know-it-techniques-techologies-treatments/ https://imaginewhatif.com/the-end-of-health-care-as-we-know-it-techniques-techologies-treatments/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:43:14 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/?p=128 New technologies, pharmaceuticals, and methods of treatment will over the coming decade short-circuit much of today’s medical care, replacing it with cheaper, easier, more precise, more effective techniques that will produce startling changes in health care.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/the-end-of-health-care-as-we-know-it-techniques-techologies-treatments/feed/ 1 Where We’re Really Headed: Health Care 2020 and Beyond https://imaginewhatif.com/where-were-really-headed-health-care-2020-and-beyond/ https://imaginewhatif.com/where-were-really-headed-health-care-2020-and-beyond/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:41:39 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/?p=123 The trends, vectors, and forces that are rapidly re-shaping health care are far deeper and broader than what is written into the health care reform act. Within a decade the structure, economics, legal position, and technological underpinnings of health care will be nearly unrecognizable. The organizations that thrive in these changes will be the organizations […]

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