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Joe Flower |
Joe Flower's Key Accomplishments Include . . .
With over 30 years’ experience, Joe Flower has emerged as a premier observer and thought-leader on the deep forces changing healthcare in the United States and around the world.
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As a healthcare speaker, futurist, writer and consultant, Joe Flower 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 the majority of state hospital associations in the U.S. as well as many of the provincial associations and ministries in Canada, and an extraordinary variety of other players across healthcare – professional associations, pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, health plans, physician groups, and numerous hospitals.
Joe Flower is also the author of hundreds of healthcare articles. For over 20 years, he was a contributing editor and regular columnist at the Healthcare Forum Journal and went on to a regular column in the AHA’s Hospitals and Health Networks Weekly. For 12 years he has written a regular column for Physician Executive, the Journal of the American College of Physician Executives. He is the author, as well, of a number of seminal articles of the Healthy Cities/Healthy Communities movement.
In addition, Joe Flower was a founding member of the International Health Futures Network and the principal author of the landmark healthcare forecast, Technological Advances and the Next 50 Years of Cardiology, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
More About Speaker, Joe Flower. . .
Joe Flower has been a consultant on change and the future with the U.S. Department of Defense, Airbus and ArianeSpace, and a number of governments in China.
Flower was also a contributing writer for Wired Magazine in its explosive early years, and a columnist for the pioneering health websites DNA.com and HealthCentral.com.
Joe Flower’s deep research into the nature of change in organizations and people led to interviews with the top thinkers on organizational change, from Peter Drucker to Peter Senge and Ari de Geus.
Joe Flower speaks to organizations both inside and outsidehealthcare because of how deeply and broadly this changing industry is affecting everyone. Tracking trends in other nations, partly as a way to understand our system better, he has brought value to organizations in countries as widespread as Canada, the UK, and China. |
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| Suggested Keynote Programs |
- Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right for Half The Cost
There is only one way to do healthcare for far less money, and that is to do it far better, for everyone. The answer is not political, but lies inside healthcare itself, in five specific strategies detailed in Joe Flower’s new book to be published in March 2012. This is a powerful talk, a hopeful vision, a practical roadmap for healthcare, a challenge and an inspiration to everyone involved.
- The X Questions: Strategy for the Next Healthcare
2012 through 2014 present a unique and compelling opportunity for healthcare executives to drive deep change. The key questions are different now from what they were in the past, even from what they were last year. Most of today’s healthcare CEOs and C-suite leaders are missing many of the key questions they need to ask to drive strategy now, this year, this budget, in order to survive the next three to seven years. Which of these ten strategy questions are you missing?
- Employers’ Framework: How to Get Better Health and Healthcare for Less
If you want to drive your healthcare costs down—while helping your employees to better health—you have to act like a CEO and take charge of your supply chain. Employers across the country have been employing a new mindset and specific new strategies to get cheaper, better healthcare. Here’s how to tackle the problem for your organization.
- The Next Healthcare: The Path of Survival and Growth For You and Your Profession
Healthcare is changing rapidly. 2012 through 2014 will be the most unstable years we have ever seen. Everyone in healthcare, from physicians and nurses to pharmacists and insurance brokers, is wondering what to do: What is the best path forward, for their part of healthcare and for them personally? In talks over the past two years, Joe Flower has been advising groups as diverse as hospital executives, physicians, nurses, physical therapists, pharmaceutical marketers, independent pharmacists, health plans, health insurance brokers and consultants, community health groups, free clinics, ambulatory surgery centers, home health providers, emergency physicians, healthcare suppliers, device manufacturers, and healthcare information companies. Whatever your group, Flower’s practical, useful insights and analysis will help you plan your future better.
- How We Can Drive Down Real Costs in Health Care
The emerging future of health care shows definite and startling features: Far beyond merely “bending the cost curve” of health care inflation, various organizations across the country are showing how to actually drive the cost down by substantial amounts, without depriving anyone of anything. What is emerging from the private sector is a coherent collaborative strategy. Flower shows how it works and how to make it work, with clear examples, models, and parameters.
- Where We’re Really Headed: Health Care 2020 and Beyond
The trends, vectors, and forces that are rapidly re-shaping health care are far deeper and broader than what is written into the health care reform act. Within a decade the structure, economics, legal position, and technological underpinnings of health care will be nearly unrecognizable. The organizations that thrive in these changes will be the organizations that best understand, anticipate, and build for them.
- Facing The Physician Crisis
More than half of our current physicians intend to retire or cut back their practices at the very time that 30 to 40 million new people are entering the system, and the Baby Boom is entering its years of “peak medicine.” The necessity of producing more doctors, and emphasizing primary care, is obvious, but the real answer is far larger. Helping doctors become more efficient and effective could in effect greatly increase the number of available doctors and the time they have to give to patients, and restructuring and re-thinking how we do much of health care (particularly chronic care) could make the whole process far more effective and efficient — and far less expensive.
- Nurses: A Key to Better Faster Cheaper Health Care
We now actually have considerable experience, data, examples, and outcomes of pilots that show exactly how to provide better health care, for less, for everyone. They have a number of factors in common, such as much more emphasis on primary care, prevention, and chronic care; teamwork; tight control of processes; and partnering with patients. All of these clearly illuminate making far better use of nurses – at the very moment that we are losing nurses out of direct patient care every day. Nurses are key to a better future. Let’s take a look at how that works.
- “Patient in Chief” Putting the Customer in Charge
The road to real “consumer-driven health care” is twisty and full of potholes. But some health care providers, some employers, and some insurers are making it work so well that it begins to look like the answer. Let’s take a look: What makes a difference? What’s so hard about it? What do we need to do to make it work? Who’s making it work? How? Is there a formula?
- The End of Health Care As We Know It: Techniques, Technologies, and Treatments
New technologies, pharmaceuticals, and methods of treatment will over the coming decade short-circuit much of today’s medical care, replacing it with cheaper, easier, more precise, more effective techniques that will produce startling changes in health care.
- Data-Driven Health Care: Better Faster Cheaper
For the first time, we have the potential to use real data to drive the effectiveness of health care. But large practical obstacles bar the way. We can’t get there from here without specific action and real leadership from across the industry.
- The Next Health Care: Presentations for Specific Industry Sectors
Flower regularly brings his analysis of the future to specific industry sectors and stakeholders, such as:
- Hospitals, health care systems, and hospital associations
- Clinics and clinic associations
- Physician groups and other professional associations
- Behavioral health
- Long-term care and hospice
- Pharmacies
- Pharmaceutical companies
- Health care financial managers
- Health plans and managed care
- Major vendors
- Employers
- Investors
For each of these sectors, Flower unpacks the changes engulfing health care, and illustrates precisely how those trends and forces will re-shape the sector, re-define their part of the industry, shift their goals, their finances, their strategies, and their effectiveness.
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| What People Are Saying |
"What a great presentation. We were so impressed. Your approach was perfect and your grasp of medicine was breathtaking.".
--- John Sinnott, MD, Director, Division of Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine,
Tampa General Hospital
"I've had Joe speak 3 times for our leadership group of 275 for nine hospitals and his reviews are always excellent. If you're looking for someone who will stimulate, challenge, inspire ... Joe Flower would be the speaker I'd choose. "
--- Jerry Lewis, Leadership Development, Banner Health |
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