by joeflower | May 31, 2011 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
Under the headline, “Medicare Plan for Payments Irks Hospitals,” today’s New York Times details the opposition stirred up by the government’s “value-based purchasing” initiative. If you’re buying anything (and the US federal government is the largest purchaser of...
by joeflower | May 20, 2011 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
[Note to the reader: Anything that is in italics and square brackets (such as this note) is addressed to you, personally. Yes, you. Try it on, see if it fits.] Healthcare has, right now, the greatest opportunity we have seen in our lifetimes to make a big change, to...
by joeflower | Mar 10, 2011 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
It’s a backbone-brilliant concept that actually produces better healthcare, and better health, for significantly less money—and a concept that America may be too politically hypnotized to ever put into wide practice. “Evidence-based” means it’s about what really...
by joeflower | Feb 25, 2011 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
According to a new poll, half of all Americans say they are “confused” about healthcare reform. And boy howdy, are they right! Take a look at this new Kaiser Family Fund poll: http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/8156-C.pdf Scan down to Slide 9: Almost a quarter of...
by joeflower | Jan 3, 2011 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
I had a great discussion not long ago with a naive believer in “free markets”—naïve in his fairly unexplored belief that the market provides a better solution to pretty much any problem than government does. Over lunch, after a talk I gave, this fellow...
by joeflower | Sep 21, 2010 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Reform, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
This article 1st appeared on September 20, 2010 in HHN Magazine online site. They are coming in fast under the radar, out of peripheral vision, in the magician’s other hand—and they will change everything. New ideas, surprising networks, stealth business models...