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Follow the money. Then follow the trust.

by joeflower | Jul 20, 2016 | Commentary, Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Workforce, Volume to Value

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...

Trust. Partners. The Secret Sauce of the Next Healthcare

by joeflower | Jul 20, 2016 | Commentary, Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Workforce, Uncategorized, Volume to Value

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...

Why You Should Ditch Your IT System

by joeflower | Nov 20, 2014 | Healthcare Management, Healthcare Workforce, New Healthcare Technology, Top Healthcare Stories

So you spent millions to billions of dollars on information systems over the past few years, right? How’s that working out for you? For a large percentage of you, whether or not you admit it, not so well. What you bought needs some serious tweaks, re-engineering,...

The Missing Ts: Four Key Dimensions of Strategy

by joeflower | Jul 31, 2013 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Workforce, Top Healthcare Stories

If you don’t have a structured way of driving your choices through the four Ts — transparency, targeting, trust, and trim — you’re headed for T as in trouble. These four key dimensions have two things in common. One is trivial: They all start with T. The other is...

How to Fail at the Next Health Care

by joeflower | Jun 4, 2013 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Workforce, New Healthcare Technology, Top Healthcare Stories

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? So I was beta testing FutureSearch, this...

Preparing for What’s Next in Healthcare

by jflower | Aug 20, 2009 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare Workforce, Top Healthcare Stories

Are you waiting for the shoe to drop? The anvil to fall?  Don't.Whether or not we're hit with "reform," this won’t be over soon, and it will affect you and your organization for years to come and in more surprising ways than you might...

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