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...
by joeflower | Feb 16, 2013 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Reform, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
The very forces creating a better, cheaper and more available health care industry also can be used to create monopolies, raise costs and degrade care. Which future strategic model will prevail? Rapid change is engulfing health care across the United States, but the...
by joeflower | Nov 29, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Systems Thinking, Top Healthcare Stories
Costs and revenue: This is the oxygen of any business, any organization. What are your revenue streams? How much does it cost you to produce them? Life is not just about breathing, but, if you don’t get that in-out equation right, there is nothing else life can...
by joeflower | Sep 25, 2012 | Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Reform, New Healthcare Technology, Top Healthcare Stories
(From the American Hospital Association’s H&HN Daily, September 25, 2012) Doing more with less. Doing the most for the least. Seems like the biggest magic trick ever. It’s invisible, people don’t seem to even notice you’re doing it. You do it every day. And...