by joeflower | Apr 8, 2015 | Healthcare Economics, Top Healthcare Stories
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. On the one hand, pharma is...
by joeflower | Apr 2, 2015 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Management, New Healthcare Technology, Top Healthcare Stories
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...
by joeflower | Mar 10, 2015 | Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Top Healthcare Stories
By now, you have likely heard analyses of last week’s Obamacare-killer King v. Burwell Supreme Court case. But what will make a real difference to you and your organization? Here are the three things you most need to know about the case: Which outcome you should be...
by joeflower | Jan 20, 2015 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Management, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
There are no winners in the fee-for-service game. It’s time to toss the whole business-as-usual model — for your own good and the good of your customers. The emerging Default Model of health care — the “consumer-directed” insured fee-for-service model in which health...
by joeflower | Nov 20, 2014 | Healthcare Management, Healthcare Workforce, New Healthcare Technology, Top Healthcare Stories
So you spent millions to billions of dollars on information systems over the past few years, right? How’s that working out for you? For a large percentage of you, whether or not you admit it, not so well. What you bought needs some serious tweaks, re-engineering,...
by joeflower | Sep 24, 2014 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Top Healthcare Stories
Health care is fragile. It survives in a much narrower band of circumstances than most of us realize. Right now many hospitals and systems are having a second down year in a row. They’re consolidating, laying off people, working through major shifts in strategy — all...