Uncategorized Archives - Joe Flower Healthcare Futurist https://imaginewhatif.com/uncategorized/ Healthcare Speaker, Consultant Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:55:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Healthcare Economics: Why this stuff doesn’t work the way you think it does — and how to fix it https://imaginewhatif.com/healthcare-economics-why-stuff-doesnt-work-way-you-think-how-to-fix/ https://imaginewhatif.com/healthcare-economics-why-stuff-doesnt-work-way-you-think-how-to-fix/#comments Sat, 18 Mar 2017 00:12:33 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3816 Healthcare economics are weird, opaque, and convoluted. The business of healthcare is unlike any other business. The politicians and pundits arguing about how to fix healthcare in the United States don’t understand what they are trying to fix. Neither do you, probably, because almost no one does. So let me help with this explainer, your best eight minutes on healthcare economics, why healthcare economics are different, and what would work.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/healthcare-economics-why-stuff-doesnt-work-way-you-think-how-to-fix/feed/ 1 Asking the Wrong Healthcare Questions. And Answering the Right Ones https://imaginewhatif.com/asking-the-wrong-healthcare-questions-and-answering-the-right-ones/ Thu, 09 Feb 2017 21:53:04 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=3740 I just published this Big Think post on Medium.com, because it’s time for more people, not just the choir, to understand what’s going on in healthcare. We’ve all got to stop asking the wrong questions about healthcare – who pays for it – and we’ve all got to start asking the right ones – what we pay for […]

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]]> 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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]]> 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 Des Moines, the Heart of the Revolution https://imaginewhatif.com/des-moines-the-heart-of-the-revolution/ https://imaginewhatif.com/des-moines-the-heart-of-the-revolution/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2015 22:31:36 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2068 In Des Moines, brides are posing in the spring sun under the profusion of flowering trees in the Arboretum and families are strolling the path around Gray’s Lake. Up in the cavernous Veterans Memorial Convention Center, UnityPoint is wrapping up its Leadership Symposium celebrating its 20th anniversary as an integrated system. An outsider might be […]

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/des-moines-the-heart-of-the-revolution/feed/ 1 The Urgency of the Truly Transparent https://imaginewhatif.com/the-urgency-of-the-truly-transparent/ https://imaginewhatif.com/the-urgency-of-the-truly-transparent/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2015 23:39:21 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2042 Seamless interoperability is completely possible. Lack of it is not only killing people, it is a major barrier to better, cheaper healthcare centered on the patient.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/the-urgency-of-the-truly-transparent/feed/ 3 On Beyond Healthcare: Save the Country with Preventive Care https://imaginewhatif.com/on-beyond-healthcare-save-the-country-with-preventive-care/ Wed, 23 May 2012 15:39:44 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1383 If you count yourself a patriot, if you think we need to lower the deficit, bend your efforts to find ways to care for the least cared for, the most difficult, the chronically complex poor and uninsured.

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]]> Introduction https://imaginewhatif.com/introduction/ Wed, 05 May 2010 10:26:49 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/2010/05/introduction.html With over 30 years’ experience, Joe Flower has emerged as a premier observer and thought leader on the deep forces changing healthcare in the United States and around the world. As a healthcare speaker, writer, and consultant, he has explored the future of healthcare with clients ranging from the World Health Organization, the Global Business […]

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]]> Preparing for the Future of Healthcare https://imaginewhatif.com/preparing-for-the-future-of-healthcare/ https://imaginewhatif.com/preparing-for-the-future-of-healthcare/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:33:00 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/2010/04/preparing-for-the-future-of-healthcare.html Are you ready for what happens next? We may have a reform act signed into law, but this is not over, and won’t be over any time soon. The next few years will be tortuous foa all of us. The reform, and its sequelae, and other significant shifts happening at the very same time, will […]

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/preparing-for-the-future-of-healthcare/feed/ 2 The leading healthcare speaker . . . https://imaginewhatif.com/the-leading-healthcare-speaker/ Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:55:00 +0000 http://vfwh.net/jfl/2010/03/the-leading-healthcare-speaker.html … for times of massive change Are you prepared for the future of health care? Featured keynote talk topics White Paper: 15 Ways To Make Healthcare Cheaper – by Making It Better

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