As the founder and CEO of the education company What If, Inc., Joe Flower has been writing, speaking, and consulting about change and the future of health care for more than 25 years. In his presentation, Flower will discuss some definite and startling health care strategies emerging from the private sector. He will explain how, far beyond merely bending the cost curve of health care inflation, various organizations across the country are substantially driving down costs without depriving anyone of anything. This session will enable you to:

Describe how changing the economics of health care – the payment system – turns into the need for a vastly different physical plant.
Explain how the types of physical plants and engineering constructs that would support a primary, care-based, prevention-heavy focus on population health are different from what we have today.
Describe how the intrinsic demand for the true costs of health care will heighten the pressure on the cost/benefit/quality dynamic to an extreme degree, changing the world of health care engineering in ways that will be difficult to predict or even recognize.
Identify new technologies, pharmaceuticals, and methods of treatment that can help health care organizations improve care and save costs.