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.

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Treating patients like customers

Be Prepared
To adapt quickly

Meet Joe Flower

In a 6-minute video, health care analyst Joe Flower talks about how he came to a new understanding of how health care got to where it is today - and what can be done to make it work.

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Motto

Here’s the bumper sticker:

HEALTHCARE
BETTER
FASTER
CHEAPER
FOR ALL

Healthcare Better Faster Cheaper

(For part two of this video, go to the Talks Page.)

What Must Be Done

By Joe Flower

From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, March 11, 2008

You don’t get what you pay for in U.S. health care.

We waste unbelievably vast amounts of cash, and still don’t get truly great health care. The new transparency is both revealing these shortcomings and showing what we can do about them. It is possible to build the Next Health Care - better faster cheaper - right here, right now. Here are the 14 things that hospitals must do today. (Download the full article on what must be done in health care)

The New Integration

Health care organizations need to buckle down and deliver care that is better, faster, cheaper.

By Joe Flower

From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, May 13, 2008

Increasingly, the traditional hospital business model doesn’t work. We don’t get to “better faster cheaper” (or even to solvency) by nibbling around the edges, but through profound change, from admitting to thrombolytics, from the business model to the data cache. There are many paths to the mountain, but all of them involve a much tighter integration than we are used to. (Download the full article on the new integration of health care)

The Curse of Capitalism

The attempt to create the Next Health Care faces a much greater threat than politics.

By Joe Flower

From Hospitals and Health Networks Online, January 15, 2008

The biggest obstacle to the massive effort to build the Next Health Care is not liberal or conservative, Democratic or Republican, but simply the growing influence of money in politics and regulation, an influence decried by observers from Robert Bork to Robert Reich, an influence so pervasive that it drowns out most real discussion of practical solutions for the good of the whole system. (Download the full article on how the influence of money changes our health care priorities.)