by joeflower | Jan 20, 2016 | Featured, Healthcare Management, Top Healthcare Stories
A primer for tactical decision-making in times of deep change. The problem at the core of the “volume to value” movement, the shoals it is running aground on, is this: How do you make it work economically? How does your organization make a living at it? To put a finer...
by joeflower | Jul 14, 2015 | Featured, Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Management, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
When the pace of change is accelerating, you need a flexible process and a paradoxical mind. How do you plan? Obviously, you have to. Obviously, you can’t. For your organization, and for you as a health care leader, the rapid and at times chaotic changes in the...
by joeflower | Jun 18, 2015 | Change-Master Series, Healthcare Economics, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
The Change-Master Series: Deep Dives Into the Essence of Change-Making and Leadership by Joe Flower Twenty years ago we talked in his cramped, book-lined, ex-carport study with the laden plum tree bowing its fruit over the garden gate outside. What Dr. Len Duhl had to...
by joeflower | May 26, 2015 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
Republicans have raged against Obamacare for six years now. But do they really want to see it crash? We are rapidly approaching the day when the Supreme Court announces its decision in King v. Burwell. The case found a four-word phrase in the 900-page law that says...
by joeflower | May 19, 2015 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
A historic chart of health care spending exposes the culprit in rising costs: code-based fee-for-service medicine. To Be Notified When the Book Is Available for Purchase Go Here Cost is the big factor. Cost is why we can’t have nice things. The overwhelmingly vast...
by joeflower | Apr 22, 2015 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, International Healthcare Analysis, Top Healthcare Stories
Dateline: Lahinch, County Clare, Ireland I’m sitting over the seawall and embankments of this seaside town in the west of Ireland, watching the Atlantic waves crash and dribble onto the shingle in what must be their most peaceful mood on a surprisingly warm April...