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Healthcare is Australia’s biggest industry, accounting for 12.7% of GDP, or A$150 billion, with over 1.5 million people employed in healthcare and social assistance. That’s a big pie, however, you slice it. However, the way… Read more

  Healthcare has become highly complex, but the model for delivering it hasn’t followed those changes causing to healthcare to lose its essence and to become unsustainable. Since changes are inevitable, the best approach is… Read more

In part 1, we looked at how having ‘top-down’ thinking means that golden opportunities to transform ‘disease-care’ into healthcare are being missed. Now, we will be looking in some example at how ‘bottom-up’ thinking and… Read more

  Could Overlooking Internal Innovations Be Costing Your Patients And Your Organisation? Healthcare organisations are in desperate need of reform. However, top-down thinking eans that golden opportunities to transform ‘disease-care’ into healthcare are being missed…. Read more

The above image shows the rise in healthcare costs (black line), numbers of doctors (yellow), and numbers of administrators (blue). We haven’t got healthcare delivery right. Since healthcare has become more complex, using experts for the non-clinical… Read more

Healthcare leaders and professionals are being asked to focus on quality and patient safety in ways they never have before, because the economics of quality are changing. Isolated improvements haven’t resulted in dramatic healthcare system… Read more

“We need to face up to what Command-and-Controlism has done to us, our way of thinking and our organisations. And to do this, we need to know the warning signs. So, here are twenty questions… Read more

“You are either being disrupted or a disruptor — sometimes you are both,” says Neil Patel, president of Healthbox and EVP at HIMSS. That’s why it’s important to always be looking ahead and thinking about… Read more