Featured Archives - Joe Flower Healthcare Futurist https://imaginewhatif.com/featured/ Healthcare Speaker, Consultant Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:12:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Blockchains: Turbo-charging Healthcare Transactions https://imaginewhatif.com/blockchains-turbo-charging-healthcare-transactions/ Thu, 06 Oct 2016 14:18:58 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3135 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 type, even with total strangers, even without knowing the identity of the counterparties — […]

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]]> What Would President Trump Do About, To, Or For Healthcare: The Definitive Answer https://imaginewhatif.com/what-would-president-trump-do-about-to-or-for-healthcare-the-definitive-answer/ Thu, 19 May 2016 19:31:07 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2924 Are you ready? Here it is: We don’t know. You don’t know. Nobody knows. In fact, Trump doesn’t know. And this is not a criticism, at least not exactly. It’s more an observation of his style, of what makes Trump tick. A mad-for-Bernie friend, just yesterday, said to me, about Trump: “Well at least he’s […]

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]]> 4-Dimensional Strategy: How to Build Your Own Situation Room https://imaginewhatif.com/4-dimensional-strategy-how-to-build-your-own-situation-room/ Wed, 20 Jan 2016 19:11:24 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2592 The analysis now required is not something all that new and strange, but it seems to be new to many of us in health care because it wasn’t necessary when things were more stable and expectable. What we need is an enhanced version of a revenue-based strategy analysis common in other industries. Let’s call it the 4-Dimensional Strategy Template.

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]]> What Company Will You Keep? Strategy In the New Era https://imaginewhatif.com/what-company-will-you-keep-strategy-in-the-new-era/ https://imaginewhatif.com/what-company-will-you-keep-strategy-in-the-new-era/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2015 18:27:01 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2416 In an era of complex change in healthcare, how do you plan? Obviously, you have to. Obviously, you can’t. Let’s step through it: the shape of the complexity we are dealing with, how the process must change to deal with it, and what kind of mind we need for this new thinking.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/what-company-will-you-keep-strategy-in-the-new-era/feed/ 1 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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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/where-were-really-headed-health-care-2020-and-beyond/feed/ 2 How We Can Drive Down Real Costs in Health Care https://imaginewhatif.com/how-we-can-drive-down-real-costs-in-health-care/ https://imaginewhatif.com/how-we-can-drive-down-real-costs-in-health-care/#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:44:39 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/?p=132 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 depriving anyone of anything. What is emerging from the private sector is a coherent collaborative […]

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