Healthcare Workforce Archives - Joe Flower Healthcare Futurist https://imaginewhatif.com/healthcare-workforce/ Healthcare Speaker, Consultant Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:43:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 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 Why You Should Ditch Your IT System https://imaginewhatif.com/why-you-should-ditch-your-it-system/ Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:19:16 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1931 So you spent millions to billions of dollars on information systems over the past few years, right? Maybe you should Junk it and start over.

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]]> The Missing Ts: Four Key Dimensions of Strategy https://imaginewhatif.com/the-missing-ts-four-key-dimensions-of-strategy/ https://imaginewhatif.com/the-missing-ts-four-key-dimensions-of-strategy/#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:48:48 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1662 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.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/the-missing-ts-four-key-dimensions-of-strategy/feed/ 2 How to Fail at the Next Health Care https://imaginewhatif.com/how-to-fail-at-the-next-health-care/ Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:16:27 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1648 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?

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]]> Preparing for What’s Next in Healthcare https://imaginewhatif.com/preparing-for-whats-next-in-healthcare/ Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:42:52 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/?p=19 Are you ready for health care reform? What can your organization do, now, to prepare?
Whatever the shape of health care reform in 2009, it will re-fashion your business for years to come, whatever part of health care you are in – or even if you are not in health care.

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]]> What’s the Future for Specialists? https://imaginewhatif.com/whats-the-future-for-specialists/ Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:12:13 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/?p=21 On June 18, SunTrust Bank sponsored a webinar for its physician clients (most of them specialists), in which I discussed the future of business models and care models: How will medical specialists make a living in the future? And how will they care for patients?

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]]> Time for Turnaround https://imaginewhatif.com/time-for-turnaround/ Sun, 10 May 2009 16:17:00 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/?p=24 Making health care work better, faster and cheaper, more reliably, for everyone, is not just smart business and good management, it is a moral quest. There is a path out of this wilderness; there is a valley beyond. The stimulus package and the movement toward reform will give us tools and some help, but the real work is still up to us.

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]]> Carpe Diem Decretorium (“Sieze the Day of Decision”) https://imaginewhatif.com/carpe-diem-decretorium-sieze-the-day-of-decision/ Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:27:09 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/?p=32 Imagine you are an explorer, scouting out new territory, with the help of a local guide – a mathematically-inclined local guide. You come to a river. You ask whether it can be forded: “How deep is it?” He says, “Go ahead. On average, it is only waist deep.” Would you cross the river?

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]]> Does cheaper future healthcare mean lost jobs? https://imaginewhatif.com/does-cheaper-future-healthcare-mean-lost-jobs/ Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/2008/09/does-cheaper-future-healthcare-mean-lost-jobs.html Doesn't any talk about a "cheaper" future of healthcare mean a huge loss of jobs? A fair question, but the answer is not as simple as you might think.

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