by joeflower | Nov 29, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
Costs and revenue: This is the oxygen of any business, any organization. What are your revenue streams? How much does it cost you to produce them? Life is not just about breathing, but, if you don’t get that in-out equation right, there is nothing else life can...
by joeflower | Sep 25, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Reform, New Healthcare Technology, Top Healthcare Stories
(From the American Hospital Association’s H&HN Daily, September 25, 2012) Doing more with less. Doing the most for the least. Seems like the biggest magic trick ever. It’s invisible, people don’t seem to even notice you’re doing it. You do it every day. And...
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...
by joeflower | May 23, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Policy, Top Healthcare Stories, Uncategorized, Universal Healthcare
We are entering the season of presidential politics, of bunting and cries of “What about the children?” and star-spangled appeals to full-throated patriotism. So here’s mine: Do you count yourself a patriot? Do you care about the future of this country? (And while we...