by joeflower | Aug 10, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, Healthcare Beyond Reform Book, Healthcare Management, New Healthcare Technology, Systems Thinking
In Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing it Right For Half The Cost I lay out the five strategies that healthcare must adopt, and is adopting in various ways and places, to make healthcare better and cheaper at the same time. Strategy Five is “Rebuild Every Process.” It’s...
by joeflower | Jun 28, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Beyond Reform Book, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
What a cliffhanger! It is an historic decision, found on the narrowest possible grounds, with a majority agreeing on the result, but not broadly on the reasoning. Effects: The principal effects of the finding, from the point of view of the system: They have just...
by joeflower | Jun 20, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, Healthcare Beyond Reform Book, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
[Press Release] Sausalito, Calif., June 20, 2012 — With the Supreme Court’s decision on the healthcare reform act expected within the week, both hope and fear are building that the Court will stop healthcare reform in its tracks. But a healthcare futurist argues that...
by joeflower | Jun 8, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, Healthcare Beyond Reform Book, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
I’ve been saying it for years now, it’s the theme of Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right For Half The Cost — and now it’s even hit the editorial pages of the NY Times: A June 2 editorial, “Treating You Better For Less,” trumpets the...