Healthcare 2.0 Archives - Joe Flower Healthcare Futurist https://imaginewhatif.com/healthcare-20/ Healthcare Speaker, Consultant Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:45:53 +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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]]> How to Fail at the Next Health Care https://imaginewhatif.com/how-to-fail-at-the-next-health-care/ Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:16:27 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1648 The Next Health Care calls for very different strategies and tool sets. Many systems are acting as if they read a manual on how to do it wrong. How many of these critical strategic and tactical mistakes is your system making?

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]]> The Ghost of Steve Jobs and Your Bottom Line https://imaginewhatif.com/the-ghost-of-steve-jobs-and-your-bottom-line/ Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:54:53 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1626 The progeny of the iPhone and the iPad will change the shape of every healthcare institution — and their balance sheets — in ways that are hard to imagine.

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]]> The Next Health Care — and the Dark Side https://imaginewhatif.com/divided-faces-of-change/ Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:03:07 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1578 The very forces creating a better, cheaper and more available health care industry also can be used to create monopolies, raise costs and degrade care. Which future strategic model will prevail? Which works best? Which is right?

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]]> What’s the Business Plan for Serving the Poor? https://imaginewhatif.com/whats-the-business-plan-for-serving-the-poor/ https://imaginewhatif.com/whats-the-business-plan-for-serving-the-poor/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:45:48 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1550 Despite the reform, the tide of the helpless will continue to grow, and the resources to help them will shrink. How will you manage it? You cannot manage the future of your institution without a good answer to that question.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/whats-the-business-plan-for-serving-the-poor/feed/ 3 What healthcare must learn — from a chain restaurant https://imaginewhatif.com/what-healthcare-must-learn-from-a-chain-restaurant/ https://imaginewhatif.com/what-healthcare-must-learn-from-a-chain-restaurant/#comments Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:01:12 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1543 Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right for Half the Cost says: Healthcare must rebuild all processes. Atul Gawande now dramatically shows how to do it.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/what-healthcare-must-learn-from-a-chain-restaurant/feed/ 1 Healthcare Futurist: Supreme Court Can’t Stop Healthcare Reform https://imaginewhatif.com/healthcare-futurist-supreme-court-cant-stop-healthcare-reform/ https://imaginewhatif.com/healthcare-futurist-supreme-court-cant-stop-healthcare-reform/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:23:24 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1505 Both hope and fear are building that the Supreme Court will stop healthcare reform in its tracks. But the real reforms in healthcare will survive with or without the law.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/healthcare-futurist-supreme-court-cant-stop-healthcare-reform/feed/ 1 Better Healthcare for Less — Even the NY Times Says: “It’s a movement!” https://imaginewhatif.com/better-healthcare-for-less-even-the-ny-times-says-its-a-movement/ Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:23:33 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1470 I've been saying it for years now, and now it's even hit the NY Times: the "good news" about a "grass-roots movement" that "could transform the entire system."

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]]> Something Wizard This Way Comes https://imaginewhatif.com/something-wizard-this-way-comes/ Wed, 26 May 2010 12:54:59 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/?p=4 Several companies have identified innovative ways to make health care better, faster and cheaper. A pharmacy chain, a major healthcare vendor, and a number of IT companies are changing care more than reform will.

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]]> The Rising Tide of the Unremarkable in the Future of Healthcare https://imaginewhatif.com/the-rising-tide-of-the-unremarkable-in-the-future-of-healthcare/ https://imaginewhatif.com/the-rising-tide-of-the-unremarkable-in-the-future-of-healthcare/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:14:30 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/?p=7 Health care is changing in unexpected ways with the help of the most commonplace tools: the cell phone and the Web

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