Accountable for Patient Health

September 21, 2010

They are coming in fast under the radar, out of peripheral vision, in the magician’s other hand—and they will change everything. New ideas, surprising networks, stealth business models that may change health care profoundly, are bubbling up in pilot programs, experiments and full-on corporate transformations.

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Data-Driven Health Care: Better Faster Cheaper

July 27, 2010

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

July 27, 2010

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 [...]

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Nurses: Key To Better Faster Cheaper Healthcare

July 27, 2010

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

July 27, 2010

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

July 26, 2010

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

July 17, 2010

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

July 16, 2010

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

June 24, 2010

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

May 26, 2010

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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