Top Healthcare Stories Archives - Joe Flower Healthcare Futurist https://imaginewhatif.com/top-healthcare-stories/ Healthcare Speaker, Consultant Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:30:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 4-Dimensional Strategy: How to Build Your Own Situation Room https://imaginewhatif.com/4-dimensional-strategy-how-to-build-your-own-situation-room/ Wed, 20 Jan 2016 19:11:24 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2592 The analysis now required is not something all that new and strange, but it seems to be new to many of us in health care because it wasn’t necessary when things were more stable and expectable. What we need is an enhanced version of a revenue-based strategy analysis common in other industries. Let’s call it the 4-Dimensional Strategy Template.

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]]> What Company Will You Keep? Strategy In the New Era https://imaginewhatif.com/what-company-will-you-keep-strategy-in-the-new-era/ https://imaginewhatif.com/what-company-will-you-keep-strategy-in-the-new-era/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2015 18:27:01 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2416 In an era of complex change in healthcare, how do you plan? Obviously, you have to. Obviously, you can’t. Let’s step through it: the shape of the complexity we are dealing with, how the process must change to deal with it, and what kind of mind we need for this new thinking.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/what-company-will-you-keep-strategy-in-the-new-era/feed/ 1 How We Build Healthy Cities: Talking with Dr. Len Duhl, Pioneer of Population Health Management https://imaginewhatif.com/how-we-build-healthy-citiies-len-duhl/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 01:58:40 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2318 The Change-Master Series: Deep Dives Into the Essence of Change-Making and Leadership by Joe Flower Twenty years ago we talked in his cramped, book-lined, ex-carport study with the laden plum tree bowing its fruit over the garden gate outside. What Dr. Len Duhl had to say then is, if anything, more true today than it […]

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]]> GOP has The Fear: King v. Burwell https://imaginewhatif.com/gop-has-the-fear-king-v-burwell/ https://imaginewhatif.com/gop-has-the-fear-king-v-burwell/#comments Tue, 26 May 2015 17:10:58 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2155 Republicans have raged against Obamacare for six years now. But do they really want to see it crash? We are rapidly approaching the day when the Supreme Court announces its decision in King v. Burwell. The case found a four-word phrase in the 900-page law that says that the tax subsidies are available to people […]

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/gop-has-the-fear-king-v-burwell/feed/ 3 The Smoking Gun: How U.S. Health Care Came to Cost Insanely More https://imaginewhatif.com/the-smoking-gun-how-u-s-health-care-came-to-cost-insanely-more/ https://imaginewhatif.com/the-smoking-gun-how-u-s-health-care-came-to-cost-insanely-more/#comments Tue, 19 May 2015 17:34:19 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2105 A historic chart of health care spending exposes the culprit in rising costs: code-based fee-for-service medicine. To Be Notified When the Book Is Available for Purchase Go Here Cost is the big factor. Cost is why we can’t have nice things. The overwhelmingly vast pile of money we siphon into health care in the United […]

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/the-smoking-gun-how-u-s-health-care-came-to-cost-insanely-more/feed/ 1 The Hinge Point of Change in Ireland? https://imaginewhatif.com/the-hinge-point-of-change-in-ireland/ https://imaginewhatif.com/the-hinge-point-of-change-in-ireland/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:20:44 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2057 Is the Irish healthcare system about to turn the corner to become leaner, stronger, better? System head Tony O'Brien convenes people from across the system and brings in experts to challenge them. Could it work?

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/the-hinge-point-of-change-in-ireland/feed/ 1 Pharma and Volume-to-Value: The Big Throwdown https://imaginewhatif.com/pharma-and-volume-to-value-the-big-throwdown/ https://imaginewhatif.com/pharma-and-volume-to-value-the-big-throwdown/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2015 18:49:05 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2032 The collision between the “volume-to-value” movement and the pharmaceutical and biotech industries over the next few years will have a powerful impact on them and on the healthcare industry and on us as customers, patients, and payers.

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]]> https://imaginewhatif.com/pharma-and-volume-to-value-the-big-throwdown/feed/ 1 The Seven Levers of Change in Healthcare https://imaginewhatif.com/the-seven-levers-of-change/ Thu, 02 Apr 2015 13:27:05 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=2004 I talk to people all the time in health care at big civic gatherings; board retreats; conventions of nurses, physicians, managers of medical groups and accountable care organizations and health plans and device manufacturers. I give a talk, sit on a panel, run a discussion — and the rest of the time I listen, over […]

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]]> The “Obamacare killer” Supreme Court Case: What you need to know https://imaginewhatif.com/the-obamacare-killer-supreme-court-case-what-you-need-to-know/ Wed, 11 Mar 2015 04:57:21 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1969 Here are the three things you most need to know about last week’s "Obamacare-killer" King v. Burwell Supreme Court case:

o Which outcome you should be most concerned about.
o If the plaintiffs win, here’s what would be hurt most: our struggle for better, cheaper healthcare.
o Why the “states rights” argument means — surprise — that they probably won’t.

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]]> Toss The Default Model https://imaginewhatif.com/toss-the-default-model/ https://imaginewhatif.com/toss-the-default-model/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2015 22:19:17 +0000 https://imaginewhatif.com/?p=1939 It’s time to toss the business-as-usual model. The emerging Default Model of health care not only does not work for health care’s customers, it cannot work.

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