joeflower, Author at Joe Flower Healthcare Futurist

Healthcare Economics: Why this stuff doesn’t work the way you think it does — and how to fix it

by joeflower | Mar 17, 2017 | Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Insurance, Healthcare Policy, Healthcare Reform, Uncategorized

This is a letter I sent to Gary Cohn, appointed by President Trump to head the National Economic Council and, among other things, come up with a plan for reforming healthcare. Formerly president of Goldman Sachs, Cohn may be a wizard at finance, but healthcare...

Healthcare: Where’s the Bin Marked “Productivity”? Where’s the Lever Marked “More”?

by joeflower | Nov 1, 2016 | Commentary, Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Systems Thinking, Uncategorized, Volume to Value

Healthcare costs too much, and we don’t get enough of the healthcare that we need. This is our core problem in one word: “productivity.” The obvious difficulties of healthcare in the U.S., where we can’t seem to take care of everyone, millions are saddled with...

Blockchains: Turbo-charging Healthcare Transactions

by joeflower | Oct 6, 2016 | Commentary, Featured, Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare 2.0, New Healthcare Technology

What It is: You’ve heard of bitcoin, that magical digital money not attached to any national economy or banking system? Blockchain is the technology behind it. It’s a clever extension of existing encryption techniques that enables trusted, secure transactions of any...

Neural Dust: the blind see, the lame walk?

by joeflower | Aug 18, 2016 | Commentary, Future Hospital Industry, New Healthcare Technology

What it is: A tiny encapsulated bit of circuitry, with sensors and a chip, that can be inserted into your brain (or actually, anywhere in your body), to check out the local conditions and report back. Here’s the actual paper in Cell from the UC Berkeley scientists and...

Follow the money. Then follow the trust.

by joeflower | Jul 20, 2016 | Commentary, Future Hospital Industry, Healthcare Economics, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Workforce, Volume to Value

How will healthcare be distributed in the future? In ways that bear only some resemblance to the way it is distributed today. The changes will be driven by the new economics of healthcare embedded in the “volume to value” movement, based as it is on...

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