Recent Articles In Industry JournalsAfter The Shouting (From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, November 11, 2008) Too often, ideas take on a partisan coloration, doubly so in an election year. And the colors are often rather arbitrary. From a systems-thinking...
Offshoring isn’t just a manufacturing decision by Joe Flower From H&HN Most Wired, May 10, 2006 The core meaning of offshoring is shifting, and that shift is about to penetrate health care on a FedEx timetable. In the past in high-income countries, offshoring...
New treatments and hospitals’ attempts to cut inventory costs will cut into the medical device industry. By Joe Flower From Hospitals And Health Networks Online, March 14, 2006 Borrow this lens for a moment: For a look at the way internal and external stressors are...
Tough new questions reshape the health IT sales arena By Joe Flower From H+HN Most Wired, February 16, 2006 We are moving inexorably to a health care future that is highly automated, digitized and networked. Mounting cost pressures, clinical necessity, technological...
Information technology’s benefits come at a price By Joe Flower From Healthcare's Most Wired 11/28/05 Gathering and accelerating trends across health care pose at least 16 distinct information technology challenges. Some will be slow to build, while others will be...
