Imagine What If

Here’s the goal:
To change healthcare as quickly as possible,
from the inside out,
so that it works for everyone.

We have reached a hinge point.
We finally have the tools.
We can ask the right questions.
It can be done.

It can be done today
- and we don't have to wait for the leaders to lead. Once we understand the problem, we can do something from wherever we stand - in the industry or outside it, as clinicians, as executives, as patients and families, as voters and consumers, as investors, as legislators or regulators.

Recent articles

What must be done:
The 14 things that hospitals must do today to make healthcare better faster cheaper.

The Curse of Capitalism
Observers on the right and the left agree: The attempt to build the Next Healthcare faces a much bigger obstacle than partisan politics.

What people say

Flower’s discussion of potential changes in the healthcare arena is thought-provoking as well as eye-opening, and should easily inspire leaders of an executive level.

- Ed Colloff, M.D., Stanford Medical Center

What I can’t get out of my mind is the impact these changes to health care are going to have to other aspects of our lives.... Your presentation contained a lot of good information at one time.

- Bill Bishop,
Mission St. Joseph’s, Asheville NC

His research and subject knowledge are without challenge. He’s done his homework and the audience, even doctors, know it.

- Jerry Lewis, Banner Healthcare, Greeley CO

Joe Flower: Introduction

With nearly 30 years’ experience, Joe Flower has emerged as the premier observer and thought leader on the deep forces changing healthcare in the United States and around the world. He has explored the future of healthcare with clients ranging from the World Health Organization, the Global Business Network, and the U.K. National Health Service, to an extraordinary variety of other players across healthcare - professional associations, pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, health plans, physician groups, and numerous hospitals. He has worked on change and the future with the U.S. Department of Defense, Airbus and ArianeSpace, and a number of governments in China.

Flower is the author of hundreds of articles and author or co-author of a number of books. He is a columnist with the American Hospital Association’s Hospitals and Health Networks Online, as well as for Physician Executive.

Flower was a founding member of the International Health Futures Network, and is a member of the faculty of the American Hospital Association’s Helath Forum.