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7/15/09 - Klepper's Testimony to the HHS Health IT Policy Committee Profiled.

Brian focused on CCHIT's apparent conflict of interest with HIMSS, and on CCHIT's footdragging on interoperability as an expression of market power. See

12/08/09 - A New Georgia Business Health Coalition

In Collaboration with Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue's office, Brian's facilitation of a series of meetings with prominent Georgia employers and health care organizations has resulted in the establishment of a new statewide business health coalition.

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The Intensifying Crisis and Prospects for Reform. What will be required to re-establish stability and sustainability in American health care, and why it is more likely that we’ll achieve meaningful change in the marketplace than through policy.

Commentary. Articles, blog posts and videos that provide thorough, highly accessible analysis and argument on important health care topics.

Speaking. An energetic, engaging and provocative speaker, I use information and reason to take my audiences through intellectual rides.

Healthcare Performance, Inc. (HPI) A seasoned, highly-regarded health care analysis and business planning firm, HPI tracks the industry’s most promising innovations to improve quality, reduce risk/cost, identify problems and opportunities and then shepherd them to positive impact.

The Life of Brian. What I think about and like to do when I’m not working on health care.
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Above my desk is a Confucian maxim that says,

“The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their true names.”

It is not always easy to identify how circumstances will play out, but writing often helps me sort through to find the important truths in complex situations, and gain useful insights.

My goal is to clarify health care’s complex dynamics as a way of contributing to the development of meaningful solutions

Health Care Solutions

This site is about the dynamics of American health care, and the solutions that are available to organizations that hope to optimize their performance as the environment evolves.

Brian Klepper is an analyst, consultant, columnist and speaker who is focused on the policy and market dynamics of US health care’s deepest problems, and the increasing traction of new market-based approaches that offer tremendous promise for improved quality and reduced cost.

Read through his commentaries here, and then decide. Then get in touch to work through your organization’s positioning as health care changes.

Recent Posts

Medical Management
Really Managing Care and Costs, 3/22/10

Reform
Vote Yes, 3/20, with David C. Kibbe, MD
After the Failure of Reform, 3/1/10, with David C. Kibbe, MD
American Health Care Reform: Observations from Health Care Analysts, 1/07/10
Will Business Force Reform Back to the Drawing Board, 11/13/09, with David C. Kibbe, MD
Saving Health Care, Saving America, 10/30/09, with Alain Enthoven, David C. Kibbe, and Robert Laszewski
The Health Industry's Achilles Heel, 6/10/09, with David C. Kibbe, MD

HIT
Are We Adequately Securing Health Care Information, 4/5/10, with David C. Kibbe, MD
The Surprise, 3/14
Why Rush Vendor Certification of EHR Technologies, 3/8/10, with David C. Kibbe, MD
EHRs for a Small Planet, 1/09/10, with David C. Kibbe, MD
2009: A Year of Surprises and Change for the EHR Technology Market, 12/06/09, with David C. Kibbe, MD

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