[Press Release] Sausalito, Calif., June 20, 2012 — With the Supreme Court’s decision on the healthcare reform act expected within the week, both hope and fear are building that the Court will stop healthcare reform in its tracks. But a healthcare futurist argues that...
I’ve been saying it for years now, it’s the theme of Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right For Half The Cost — and now it’s even hit the editorial pages of the NY Times: A June 2 editorial, “Treating You Better For Less,” trumpets the...
[By Joe Flower, from the May 17, 2010, issue of H&HN Weekly] The country seems to have shifted in less than 18 months from a slogan of “Yes We Can!” to “Oh, well…” and a shrug, then back to “Cool! I think. What was that,...
By Joe Flower, from Hospitals and Health Networks Weekly, 1/19/10Below the fold and off the radar, way out of the range of town-hall screamers, talk show ranters and headline writers, and even largely outside the awareness of most policy wonks and health care...
Howard Rheingold has a pain in the butt – a big one – but how he is handling that fact is one snapshot of the rising power of social media in health care.Howard is a veteran futurist. Onetime editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, one of the founding figures...
At this week’s Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco, we interviewed innovators in healthcare IT. Here’s the first interview, Dr. Lou Cornacchia, a neurosurgeon who has spent 5 years developing a fully integrated electronic medical record system for...
