by jflower | Jan 21, 2017 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform
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...
by joeflower | Nov 1, 2016 | Commentary, Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Systems Thinking, Uncategorized, Volume to Value
Healthcare costs too much, and we don’t get enough of the healthcare that we need. This is our core problem in one word: “productivity.” The obvious difficulties of healthcare in the U.S., where we can’t seem to take care of everyone, millions are saddled with...
by jflower | Oct 22, 2016 | Healthcare Economics
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....
by joeflower | Oct 6, 2016 | Commentary, Featured, Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, New Healthcare Technology
What It is: You’ve heard of bitcoin, that magical digital money not attached to any national economy or banking system? Blockchain is the technology behind it. It’s a clever extension of existing encryption techniques that enables trusted, secure transactions of any...