Topics: International Speakers Bureau, Inc. |
Fee Range: $5,001 to $10,000 (fee note) |
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 Biography: With nearly 30 years' experience, Joe Flower has emerged as the premier observer and thought leader on the deep forces changing healthcare in the United States and around the world. He has explored the future of healthcare with clients ranging from the World Health Organization, the Global Business Network, and the U.K. National Health Service, to an extraordinary variety of other players across healthcare - professional associations, pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, health plans, physician groups, and numerous hospitals. He has worked on change and the future with the U.S. Department of Defense, Airbus and ArianeSpace, and a number of governments in China. Flower is the author of hundreds of articles and author or co-author of a number of books. He is a columnist with the American Hospital Association's Hospitals and Health Networks Online, as well as for Physician Executive. Flower was a founding member of the International Health Futures Network, and is a member of the faculty of the American Hospital Association's Helath Forum. |
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Programs: Healthcare Better Faster Cheaper We spend 60% more in some parts of the United States than others - and actually get worse outcomes. We have the highest healthcare costs in the world, but our quality is nothing to brag about. Go to any party and tell people that you work in healthcare, and you will be pinned to the wall with story after story, and a level of dissatisfaction that ranges from sorrow to boiling rage. But a movement is emerging, from the Dartmouth Group, from the Center for Health Design, from the Institute for Health Improvement, and from other nodes across healthcare, that will change healthcare from the bottom up, based on a new concept of value in healthcare, new methods of discovering what works and what doesn't, and new ways of building learning organizations. In every part of healthcare, as clinicians, as executives of healthcare organizations, health plans or vendors, or as investors, consumers and voters, there are specific steps we can take today to build a healthcare that works. The Next Healthcare In 20 years healthcare may look very little like it does today. We can already see some of the building blocks of that future - from digitization, automation, and the Internet, to powerful new pharmaceuticals and diagnostic techniques, to the increasing failure of our current financing structures - and we can begin to imagine what kind of future they will likely shape. Take a tour of a day in the life of healthcare 5, 10, or 15 years from today. Borrow My Eyes: Consumer Power In the Future of Healthcare The Information Age brings us far more than interesting, useful new ways to communicate with our customers and serve them. Combined with data-mining techniques, the "semantic web" and new consumer-directed health plans, it will usher in an age of transparency and consumer power unlike anything healthcare has experienced before. It will be highly disruptive - but it may be the best thing that has ever happened to healthcare. The ReTooling Teach-In Here are the tools your organization needs to become a nimble, adaptive organism, including scenarios planning, and the elements of the "long conversation," such as knowledge management, sense-making, and competency transfer, and the true meaning of "lean management," plus the personal skills you and your colleagues need to thrive on change without stress - in a keynote, a half-day seminar, or a longer workshop. Vectors in the Future of the Healthcare Value Chain In a healthcare world that is both consumer-driven and data-driven, healthcare's "value chain" will be torn apart and re-assembled in a thousand large and small ways. It will shape itself not to the reimbursement but to the highest value at a range of price points and end-use points, like any other industry that is subject to true market pressures. |
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