Volume to Value Archives - Joe Flower Healthcare Futurist https://imaginewhatif.com/volume-to-value/ Healthcare Speaker, Consultant Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:05:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 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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]]> 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 “Winning” by Defeating the Triple Aim https://imaginewhatif.com/winning-by-defeating-the-triple-aim/ Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:26:02 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2515 Maintaining market dominance is actually a fragile strategy based on a single scenario and a monochromatic set of assumptions about the future. If your entire business structure depends on keeping your prices a high secret, and not exposed to real competition on price and quality, you are on the crumbling edge of a cliff as the seas advance.

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]]> Getting Paid to do Better Medicine for Less https://imaginewhatif.com/getting-paid-to-do-better-medicine-for-less/ Wed, 13 May 2015 18:34:14 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2097 Atul Gawande’s new New Yorker article, “Overkill: America’s Epidemic of Unnecessary Care,”  brilliantly lays out why and how we are getting so much overtesting, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment — testing that is inappropriate, not helpful, and often harmful; diagnosis of problems and abnormalities that are real but actually won’t hurt us; treatment that misses the mark, is […]

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