Data-Driven Health Care: Better Faster Cheaper

by Joe Flower on July 27, 2010

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For the first time, we have the potential to use real data to drive the effectiveness of health care. But large practical obstacles bar the way. We can’t get there from here without specific action and real leadership from across the industry.

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Facing The Physician Crisis

by Joe Flower on July 27, 2010

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More than half of our current physicians intend to retire or cut back their practices at the very time that 30 to 40 million new people are entering the system, and the Baby Boom is entering its years of “peak medicine.” The necessity of producing more doctors, and emphasizing primary care, is obvious, but the real answer is far larger. Helping doctors become more efficient and effective could in effect greatly increase the number of available doctors and the time they have to give to patients, and restructuring and re-thinking how we do much of health care (particularly chronic care) could make the whole process far more effective and efficient — and far less expensive.

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Nurses: Key To Better Faster Cheaper Healthcare

We now actually have considerable experience, data, examples, and outcomes of pilots that show exactly how to provide better health care, for less, for everyone. They have a number of factors in common, such as much more emphasis on primary care, prevention, and chronic care; teamwork; tight control of processes; and partnering with patients. All [...]

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The End of Health Care As We Know It: Techniques, Techologies, Treatments

New technologies, pharmaceuticals, and methods of treatment will over the coming decade short-circuit much of today’s medical care, replacing it with cheaper, easier, more precise, more effective techniques that will produce startling changes in health care.

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Where We’re Really Headed: Health Care 2020 and Beyond

The trends, vectors, and forces that are rapidly re-shaping health care are far deeper and broader than what is written into the health care reform act. Within a decade the structure, economics, legal position, and technological underpinnings of health care will be nearly unrecognizable. The organizations that thrive in these changes will be the organizations [...]

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How We Can Drive Down Real Costs in Health Care

The emerging future of health care shows definite and startling features: Far beyond merely “bending the cost curve” of health care inflation, various organizations across the country are showing how to actually drive the cost down by substantial amounts, without depriving anyone of anything. What is emerging from the private sector is a coherent collaborative [...]

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“Patient In Chief”: Putting The Customer In Charge

The road to real “consumer-driven health care” is twisty and full of potholes. But some health care providers, some employers, and some insurers are making it work so well that it begins to look like the answer. Let’s take a look: What makes a difference? What’s so hard about it? What do we need to [...]

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A simple key to the future economics of healthcare

Here’s a simple key to parsing the future economics of healthcare. We have been trying for over 30 years to control healthcare costs. And there is little evidence that any of these efforts have had much effect. For decades the rise in healthcare costs has been consistently several times higher than the general inflation level. [...]

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Something Wizard This Way Comes

Several companies have identified innovative ways to make health care better, faster and cheaper. A pharmacy chain, a major healthcare vendor, and a number of IT companies are changing care more than reform will.

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Introduction

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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