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JoeFlower

  1. Save the country! Lower the deficit! By taking care of the poor and uninsured: bit.ly/L7YxRn 9:06 AM May 23rd via web
  2. Healthcare at half the cost: Why, how, and what that means for hospitals and health systems — bit.ly/GYwq4E 1:45 PM Mar 27th via web
  3. Why we should cover people who won't take care of themselves: bit.ly/zIlovV 10:21 AM Mar 20th via web
  4. If we hope to be, as Buckminister Fuller said, “Architects of the future not its victims,” we must change how we think. bit.ly/wLj9du 4:07 PM Jan 24th via web
  5. The X Questions: Strategies for the Next Healthcare. The key questions are different now. Which ones are you missing? bit.ly/uYkb7D 7:08 AM Dec 5th, 2011 via web
  6. Fire in the valley and smoke in the mountains may be the good news. Healthcare's instability means it can change. bit.ly/q1szLT 4:22 PM Sep 22nd, 2011 via Mobile Web
  7. Make a few assumptions, and the study is obviously correct: CER kills. Without them, we wonder about the flim-flam: bit.ly/oABuvG 11:27 AM Aug 4th, 2011 via web
  8. Why cost-cutting in healthcare doesn't cut costs — and will work, and already is working: bit.ly/nP3SEA 11:39 AM Jul 21st, 2011 via web
  9. Why do we have to take care of people who don't take care of themselves? What would the Founders do? Or Jesus? bit.ly/kK47Mm 10:20 AM Jun 24th, 2011 via web
  10. The Future of Ambulatory Surgery Centers: Lindsey Dunn of Becker’s ASC Review reports on my ASC keynote in Chicago — bit.ly/mKwfTr 9:32 AM Jun 13th, 2011 via web
  11. Coordinating care: the only way to lower costs, serve more people better. It's time to stop dodging the responsibility. http://bit.ly/lPFf3C 12:51 PM May 31st, 2011 via web
  12. We can do this. It's our best chance: better, cheaper. Or we can screw it up. How To Blow The Big One: A Methodology. http://bit.ly/jT1r4n 8:03 AM May 23rd, 2011 via web
  13. Culprit for obesity, diabetes, much cancer? Sugar (including high-fructose corn syrup). Avge American uses 90 lbs/yr http://nyti.ms/gO3a6w 6:14 AM Apr 17th, 2011 via web
  14. Here's what the government and hospitals are doing about hospital-caused infections (inc. $1 billion in reform act): http://bit.ly/ewbZr3 9:00 AM Apr 14th, 2011 via web
  15. NY Times' Maureen Dowd talks sense about hospital-caused infections, which kill more Americans than car crashes -- http://nyti.ms/ezvGYQ 8:08 AM Apr 14th, 2011 via web
  16. Republicans' Medicare Plan: private death panels? Insurance companies we know+love will decide when Grandma's done? http://nyti.ms/gZ4qSF 5:51 AM Apr 5th, 2011 via web
  17. The Quest for the “Not for Comfort” Health Care Organization: Better, cheaper? Or monopolies, high cost? http://www.imaginewhatif.com/?p=743 8:05 AM Mar 18th, 2011 via web
  18. Evidence-based health: Is America too hypnotized for it? A brilliant concept that gives better health—for less: http://bit.ly/fhY6ao 4:33 PM Mar 10th, 2011 via web
  19. The Triumph of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt: 1/4 of Americans think health care reform already repealed, 1/4 not sure: http://bit.ly/haDRRu 7:04 AM Feb 26th, 2011 via web
  20. Great LInkedIn group. I've been writing about Health 2.0 for years. Share your news of better, faster, cheaper heal…http://lnkd.in/ikx_EV 6:47 AM Feb 21st, 2011 via LinkedIn
  • Name Joe Flower
  • Location Sausalito, California
  • Web http://ImagineWha...
  • Bio Health care futurist: I write and speak about the future of health care
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