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Flower is the author of hundreds of 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 the author, as well, of a number of seminal articles of the Healthy Cities/Healthy Communities movement.

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.

His 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. He went deeper, into the study of chaos theory, Eastern thought, and martial arts, eventually earning a black belt in Ueshiba Aikido.

Flower was a founding member of the International Health Futures Network and the principal author of the landmark forecast, “Technological Advances and the Next 50 Years of Cardiology,” Journal of the American College of Cardiology (vol. 35, no. 4, 2000).Keynote Topics

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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.

2012 through 2014: Politics, the Law, and Industry Transformation
These three years will rock healthcare to its foundations. The dynamics are far more complex and the currents far more compelling than they seem on the surface. We need much deeper clarity than we can get from network talking heads. It's time to untangle the political, legal, and healthcare industry threads.

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?
If we hope to be, as Buckminister Fuller said, "Architects of the future, not its victims," we have to change the way we think in specific ways.

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.

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"I found your presentation to be truly motivating, with a keen sense of how leaders and organizations need to stay focused on factors that will affect their future outcomes in an ever-changing world."
- Todd McQueston, Intelligent Profit, Malvern, PA
"Just what we needed!"
- Bernadette Loftus, M.D., Physician in Chief, Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara, CA

Publications

Joe Flower's writings include:

• China’s Futures Global Business Network 2000 (co-author)
• The 21st Century Healthcare Leader Jossey-Bass 1999 (co-author)
• Japan’s Futures, Global Business Network 1998 (Executive Editor)
• Leading Change: A Key Challenge for Board-Management Teams, The Governance Institute, 1998
• The Encyclopedia of the Future MacMillan, 1996 (co-author)
• Best Practices in Collaboration to Improve Health: Creating Community Jazz, (principal co-author), The Healthcare Forum and the California Wellness Foundation, 1996
• Prince of the Magic Kingdom: Michael Eisner and the Re-Making of Disney John Wiley 1991
• Age Wave Random House 1989 (co-author)