Joe Flower Biography

With nearly 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. As a healthcare speaker, writer, and consultant, he has explored the future of healthcare with clients ranging from the World Health Organization, the Global Business Network, and the UK National Health Service, to the majority of state hospital associations in the US as well as many of the provincial associations and ministries in Canada, and an extraordinary variety of other players across the healthcare industry—professional associations, pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, health plans, physician groups, and numerous hospitals. He has been a consultant on change and the future with the US Department of Defense, Airbus, and ArianeSpace, as well as a number of governments in China.

Flower is the author of hundreds of healthcare articles. For over 20 years he was a contributing editor and regular columnist at the Healthcare Forum Journal. When the Healthcare Forum became the Health Forum of the American Hospital Association, he went on to a regular column in Hospitals and Health Networks Online. For 12 years he has written a regular column for Physician Executive, the Journal of the American College of Physician Executives. He is also the author of a number of seminal articles of the Healthy Cities/Healthy Communities movement.

His newest book is Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right for Half the Cost, which clearly and boldly sets out a vision of the Next Healthcare and how to get there. Specifically, it outlines the following: what most people don't know about the politics of healthcare; the secrets to surviving the changes in healthcare and changes in healthcare law; making sense of healthcare economics now and in the Next Healthcare; why healthcare has to be cheaper if it's going to be better; the steps every organization leader needs to take to join the Next Healthcare; and which organizations are doing it right and how.

Flower was a contributing writer for Wired Magazine in its explosive early years, and a columnist for the pioneering health websites DNA.com and HealthCentral.com.

A founding member of the International Health Futures Network, he is the principal author of the landmark healthcare forecast "Technological Advances and the Next 50 Years of Cardiology," Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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