Healthcare Management Archives - Joe Flower Healthcare Futurist https://imaginewhatif.com/healthcare-management/ Healthcare Speaker, Consultant Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:29:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Healthcare: Where’s the Bin Marked “Productivity”? Where’s the Lever Marked “More”? https://imaginewhatif.com/healthcare-wheres-the-bin-marked-productivity-wheres-the-lever-marked-more/ Tue, 01 Nov 2016 14:48:41 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3104 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 coverage that is too expensive for them to really use, Medicaid […]

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]]> Follow the money. Then follow the trust. https://imaginewhatif.com/follow-the-money-then-follow-the-trust/ https://imaginewhatif.com/follow-the-money-then-follow-the-trust/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2016 23:12:57 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3057 How will healthcare be distributed in the future? In ways that bear only some resemblance to the way it is distributed today. The changes will be driven by the new economics of healthcare embedded in the “volume to value” movement, based as it is on “provider-sponsored risk,” the basic, obvious and yet startlingly opaque logic […]

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/follow-the-money-then-follow-the-trust/feed/ 3 Trust. Partners. The Secret Sauce of the Next Healthcare https://imaginewhatif.com/trust-partners-the-secret-sauce-of-the-next-healthcare/ https://imaginewhatif.com/trust-partners-the-secret-sauce-of-the-next-healthcare/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2016 19:17:32 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3053 The double doors to the ambulance bay slide open, and one more patient on a gurney is hauled across the threshold of your Emergency Department. This one’s in diabetic shock. Stop the picture right there and ask yourself: Is this a medical success, because you can do something for this person? Or a medical failure, […]

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/trust-partners-the-secret-sauce-of-the-next-healthcare/feed/ 3 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 Productivity? In Healthcare? https://imaginewhatif.com/productivity-in-healthcare/ https://imaginewhatif.com/productivity-in-healthcare/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2015 02:03:42 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2232 Obamacare is built on the assumption that healthcare can be more productive, that we can squeeze more health per dollar out to the system that is built to give it to us. Practically everything I write is based on the same idea — big time. I believe we could do healthcare better for half the […]

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/productivity-in-healthcare/feed/ 2 The Smoking Gun: How U.S. Health Care Came to Cost Insanely More https://imaginewhatif.com/the-smoking-gun-how-u-s-health-care-came-to-cost-insanely-more/ https://imaginewhatif.com/the-smoking-gun-how-u-s-health-care-came-to-cost-insanely-more/#comments Tue, 19 May 2015 17:34:19 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2105 A historic chart of health care spending exposes the culprit in rising costs: code-based fee-for-service medicine. To Be Notified When the Book Is Available for Purchase Go Here Cost is the big factor. Cost is why we can’t have nice things. The overwhelmingly vast pile of money we siphon into health care in the United […]

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/the-smoking-gun-how-u-s-health-care-came-to-cost-insanely-more/feed/ 1 The Hinge Point of Change in Ireland? https://imaginewhatif.com/the-hinge-point-of-change-in-ireland/ https://imaginewhatif.com/the-hinge-point-of-change-in-ireland/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:20:44 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2057 Is the Irish healthcare system about to turn the corner to become leaner, stronger, better? System head Tony O'Brien convenes people from across the system and brings in experts to challenge them. Could it work?

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/the-hinge-point-of-change-in-ireland/feed/ 1 The Seven Levers of Change in Healthcare https://imaginewhatif.com/the-seven-levers-of-change/ Thu, 02 Apr 2015 13:27:05 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2004 I talk to people all the time in health care at big civic gatherings; board retreats; conventions of nurses, physicians, managers of medical groups and accountable care organizations and health plans and device manufacturers. I give a talk, sit on a panel, run a discussion — and the rest of the time I listen, over […]

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]]> Toss The Default Model https://imaginewhatif.com/toss-the-default-model/ https://imaginewhatif.com/toss-the-default-model/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2015 22:19:17 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1939 It’s time to toss the business-as-usual model. The emerging Default Model of health care not only does not work for health care’s customers, it cannot work.

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