jflower, Author at Joe Flower Healthcare Futurist

How We Can Drive Down Real Costs in Health Care

by jflower | Jul 17, 2010 | Featured

The emerging future of health care shows definite and startling features: Far beyond merely “bending the cost curve” of health care inflation, various organizations across the country are showing how to actually drive the cost down by substantial amounts, without...

“Patient In Chief”: Putting The Customer In Charge

by jflower | Jul 16, 2010 | Featured

The road to real “consumer-driven health care” is twisty and full of potholes. But some health care providers, some employers, and some insurers are making it work so well that it begins to look like the answer. Let’s take a look: What makes a...

A simple key to the future economics of healthcare

by jflower | Jun 24, 2010 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Policy, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories

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...

Something Wizard This Way Comes

by jflower | May 26, 2010 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Reform, New Healthcare Technology, Top Healthcare Stories

[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,...

Introduction

by jflower | May 5, 2010 | Uncategorized

With over 30 years’ experience, Joe Flower has emerged as a premier observer and thought leader on the deep forces changing healthcare in the United States and around the world. As a healthcare speaker, writer, and consultant, he has explored the future of healthcare...

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