by joeflower | Mar 29, 2014 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Top Healthcare Stories
(Originally published in Hospitals & Health Networks Daily 3/25/14) The conversation has changed. The old conversation: “You cost too much.” “But we have these sunk costs, patients who can’t pay…” “Okay, how about a little less, then?” The new conversation: “You...
by joeflower | Jan 28, 2014 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
Hospitals need to overhaul their processes so they can help the un- and under-insured stay healthy. Many people running health care institutions tell me that they have been fighting the fight, learning to be nimble, transforming their cultures, making big changes as...
by joeflower | Sep 24, 2013 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Management, Top Healthcare Stories
The new hospital you’re planning may quickly become obsolete. It’s time to rethink the need for hospital care. What you think becomes brick. What you imagine becomes steel and glass. Across health care, organizations are changing shape, consolidating,...
by joeflower | Jul 31, 2013 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Workforce, Top Healthcare Stories
If you don’t have a structured way of driving your choices through the four Ts — transparency, targeting, trust, and trim — you’re headed for T as in trouble. These four key dimensions have two things in common. One is trivial: They all start with T. The other is...
by joeflower | Jun 4, 2013 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Workforce, New Healthcare Technology, Top Healthcare Stories
The Next Health Care calls for very different strategies and tool sets. Many systems are acting as if they read a manual on how to do it wrong. How many of these critical strategic and tactical mistakes is your system making? So I was beta testing FutureSearch, this...
by joeflower | Mar 19, 2013 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, New Healthcare Technology, Top Healthcare Stories
The progeny of the iPhone and the iPad will change the shape of your institution — and your balance sheet. One of the more striking images to me, out of the online spew from the inauguration of 2012, was a wide view of an inaugural ball. There was the president...