An active author and speaker, Dr. Klepper has provided health care commentary to CBS Evening News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, and has published articles in Medscape, The New England Journal of Medicine, Modern Healthcare, Business Insurance, HealthLeaders and newspapers nationally. He serves as one of only three non-physicians internationally on the Editorial Board of Medscape’s Journal of General Medicine. He is also a regular columnist on two of the most widely read expert health care blogs: The Health Care Blog, hosted by Matthew Holt, and Health Policy and Marketplace Review, hosted by Bob Laszewski.
He is an
Aspen Institute Health Forum
Fellow, serves on the Board
of the Lundberg
Institute, is an Advisory Board
member for the Patient-Centered Primary Care
Collaborative, and is one of two
non-physician Board members of the Consortium for Southeast Hypertension
Control (COSEHC), a physician group
dedicated to translational medicine for vascular
disease. He is also an advisor to the Center for Value Health
Innovation.
POSITIONS
AND HONORS
Managing Principal,
Healthcare
Performance, Inc., Atlantic Beach, FL,
2007-Present, 1990-2000.
Founding Director, The
Center for Practical Health Reform (NFP), Atlantic Beach, FL,
2000-2007.
Board Member,
Consortium for Southeast Hypertension
Control (COSEHC), Kingsport, TN
Fellow,
Aspen Institute Health Forum, Aspen, Colorado
Advisor, The Lundberg Institute, Los Gatos, CA
Advisor, ABC
Codes, Albuquerque
Advisor,
WeCare TLC, Lake Mary, FL
Editor, Medpedia.
Editorial Board Member and Reviewer, Medscape
Journal of General Medicine, Emdeon, NYC
Contributing
Editor, The Health Care
Blog, Matthew Holt (host), San
Francisco
Columnist, Health Policy
and Marketplace Review, Robert Laszewski (host),
DC
Columnist, The Doctor Weighs
In, Patricia Salber MD
(host)
Columnist, Health
Commentary, Mike Magee MD (host)
Columnist, Health Wonk
Review, Rotating Editors.
WORK
HISTORY
2008-Present
Principal,
Health 2.0 Advisors
helps
clients critically evaluate Health 2.0's continuing
evolution and the ways its tools and processes can
maximize value in an increasingly competitive
marketplace.
2007-Present
Principal,
Healthcare Performance, Inc. (HPI) is a health care business
development/problem-solving practice that provides counsel
and assistance to organizations on market dynamics and
positioning, visibility and relationshp development. Dr.
Klepper is lead representative in all client interactions,
and oversees all work product development and delivery.
2000-2007
Founding Director, Center
for Practical Health Reform, Atlantic Beach, FL
CPHR was a broad-based
non-partisan, national advocacy organization that worked to
re-establish stability and sustainability to American
health care. CPHR was closed in October 2007, though I
continue to work on national reform issues privately.
1991-2001
Managing Principal, Healthcare
Performance, Inc., Jacksonville, FL.
EDUCATION (All at the University of
Florida, Gainesville)
Ph.D.
Speech Physiology/Acoustics, 1985
M.S. Speech, Hearing, Language Science, 1982
B.A. Literature, History Of Ideas, 1974
PUBLICATIONS
My writing is directed to decision makers. I try to
educate, stimulate thought and precipitate change.
(Approximately 50 articles prior to 2002 are not listed.)
Value Trumps Price in Onsite
Clinic, American City
Business Journals, 4/2/10
Thirteen Questions for Onsite Clinic
Vendors, Workforce Management,
2/27/10
CDHPs and HSAs Can Health Care: Con - The
Cost Can Make You Sick. The Debate Room in
Business Week, 9/09/09
Use Waste in the Health Care System To
Increase Access for the Uninsured, Florida Times-Union,
8/25/09.
Carrots and Sticks Shape Healthier
Employees, Save Money, American City
Business Journals, 6/19/09.
Minimally invasive surgeries offer cost
and time savings for employers, American City Business Journals,
5/15/09.
Don't Like the Bill? Tell the Health
Industry to Change, Workplace
Health, American City
Business Journals, 4/10/09.
It's Time to Empower Employers on Health
Care, Workplace
Health, American City
Business Journals, 3/13/09.
Will America's CEOs Take Obesity
Seriously, American City
Business Journals, 12/19/08.
Worksite Clinics Help Employers Take
Control of Health Care, American City
Business Journals, (Jacksonville, Phoenix, Boston, Los
Angeles, Silicon Valley, Tampa Bay, Houston, Denver,
Orlando, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Austin, DC, New
Mexico, Dallas, St. Louis, San Francisco, Atlanta, Puget
Sound, Cincinnati, East Bay, Triad, Portland, Dayton,
Nashville, Kansas City) November 2008.
"What Is Walgreens
Thinking!" CDHC
Solutions, October 2008.
"Teens Need Information," Letter to the
Florida
Times-Union, 10/02/08.
"Will Primary Care Be Re-Empowered By An
Ailing Economy?" with Richard Reece
MD, HealthLeaders,
09/30/08.
“A
Broad Vision of Health 2.0: Reformulating Data for
Transparency, Decision Support, and Revitalized Health Care
Markets,”
Health Care And
Informatics Review Online: Web 2.0: next-generation web
applications in health care, 7/09/08.
“Using
Credit Scoring To Manage Hospital Bad
Debt,” HealthLeaders,
6/08.
“Rebuilding the Medical Home: What Walgreens Surely
Sees,” The New York
Times Health Around The Web,
3/27/08.
“Medical
Care is Changing Rapidly,” The Florida
Times-Union, 3/10/08.
“Four Big Trends,” New York
Times Health Around The Web,
1/16/08.
“How TPAs Can Win By Taking The Lead On
Transparency,” The
Self-Insurer, 1/08.
“Reader’s and
Author’s Responses to ‘When Care Is Financially
Conflicted,” Medscape,
8/03/07.
“Health
Care’s Tower of Babel, Florida
Times-Union, 7/1/07.
“Are
Drug Rebates Good For Oncology,” Community
Oncology, 6/2007.
“Building
Great Health Care In Northeast
Florida,” Jacksonville Business
Journal, 5.18.07
“Health Care In A New Light: Disrupting the Drivers of the
Health Care Crisis,” Chapter in Richard Reece MD,
Innovation-Driven
Health Care, 4/07.
“RHIOs
Allow Exchange of Electronic
Info,”
Cancer
Care and Economics, 2/07/07.
“Medicare’s
Drug Plan: Huge Price Disparities for Common Cancer
Drugs,” with David
Pauker, Community
Oncology, 1/07
“Running
on Empty: Health Care As A Driver of the
Economy,” with Alain
Enthoven, HealthLeadersMedia.com,
11/07/06.
“Sinking
Health Care Ship Could Bring Down the
Economy,” Cancer Care &
Economics, 11/06.
“Sobering
Facts: How Business Can Fix US Health
Care,” SmartBusiness
Pittsburgh, 12/06.
“The
Convergence of Oncology and Imaging: An Interview with
Brian Baker, Community
Oncology, 10/06.
“Insurance
Coverage for Rare Cancers: The Carrier’s
Perspective, Community
Oncology, September 2006.
“Shortcut
to Better Health Care in Northeast
Florida,” Florida
Times-Union, 7/24/06
“Prove
that Community Oncologists Put Patients Before
Profits,” Community
Oncology, 7/06.
“Author’s
Reply to Readers’ Responses To ‘Where Is Physician
Leadership on Reform,’” Medscape General
Medicine, 6/22/06.
“Discriminating
Against the Little Guy,” in Community Oncology
Washington Update, 6/06.
“A
New Focus On Accountability: An Interview with Dr. Jerry
Reeves,” Community
Oncology, 05/06.
“Where Is
Physician Leadership on
Healthcare?,” Medscape General
Medicine, 3/23/06.
“Facing
The Big Picture Problems in Health Care: An Interview with
Brian Klepper,” Community
Oncology, March, 2006.
“Healthcare Crisis for Business,” Charlotte
Observer, 3/3/06,
“Can
Consumerism Save Healthcare?” The Health Care
Blog, 2/27/06,
Marketplace.MD
Blog, 3/1/06,
HealthVoices.com;
American
City Business Journals, 3/03/06.
“Emergency
Care Needs Life Support,” American City Business
Journals, 2/10/06,
“Why
Should Legislators Pick On
Wal-Mart,” American City Business
Journals, 1/20/06.
“Health
Knowledge is Power,” Op-Ed in newspapers
throughout Florida, 11/21/05-12/30/05.
“Business’ Dilemma,” White Paper for the Florida Retail
Federation, 11/17/05.
“A Business Case for Healthcare Reform,” with Patricia
Salber, Modern Healthcare, 10/10/05,.
Opening Interview, Richard Reece MD, Voices of Practical
Health Reform, 6/05.
“Boards Leading the Future: A Leadership Perspective on
Healthcare Reform,” Boardroom Press, 16:3, 6/05, The
Governance Institute.
“The Path From Instability,” Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
and other papers, 2/12/04,
“Leveraging Market Instability,” HealthLeaders, 2/16/04.
“National Health Care Influencers’ Assembly: Resolution
& Guide,” CPHR for the World Health Care Congress, DC,
1/27/04.
“Structural Flaws Imperil Health Care System, Commentary,”
Business Insurance, 12/16/02,
“Overcoming National Paralysis: Some Common Sense Solutions
To Our Healthcare Crisis,” with Patricia Salber MD,
Commentary, www.ModernHealthcare.com, Web Exclusive,
12/16/02,
http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/view_feature.cfm?content_id=52365
“The Proof Is In Premium,” Tampa Tribune, Florida Times
Union, Daytona Sun-Sentinel, 12/02.
“Healthcare Reform: One Coalition’s Efforts at Effecting
Change,” with Alan E. Cudney, Journal of Healthcare
Management, 47:6, 11-12/2002.
“A Non-System in Chaos: How To Save American Health Care,”
Minnesota Health Care News, 1st Quarter 2003, J. Ambulatory
Care Management, May, 2002, Minnesota Physician, 2nd Qtr,
2002, Employee Benefits Planner, 2nd Qtr 2002;. with J.
Brooks Brown, Jr., MD and Patrick G. Hays, FACHE.
“Finding Common Ground,” Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Association Health Issues Website, 2/21/02.
“On The Horns Of A Dilemma,” Modern Healthcare, with C.
Smithers, 2/11/98.
VIDEO/AUDIO/WEBCASTS
Pending, Medscape Video
Commentary, Will Physicians Be Driven Into Larger
Practices, 2009.
Pending, Medscape Video Commentary, The Prospects For
Meaningful Health Care Reform, Medscape, 2009.
Pending, Medscape Video Commentary, Leveraging the Doctor
as a Trusted Authority, Medscape, 2009.
Re-Empowering Primary
Care, Medscape Video
Commentary, The Medscape Journal of Medicine, 12/12//08.
The Business and Society of Health
2.0, at Health 2.0 2008,
San Francisco, ICYOU, 10/23/08.
Interview with Brian
Klepper, at Health 2.0 2008,
San Francisco, ICYOU, 10/22/08.
Moderator, The
True Cost of a Health Care Data
Breach, Kroll Fraud Solutions,
6/12/08.
Moderator, “Kroll Fraud Solutions/HIMSS Analytics, A Report
on the Security of Patient Data, 4/23/08.
“Healthcare
Issue Jam,” Webcast Audio
Discussion, American Chamber of Commerce Executives,
2/05/08.
“When Care is
Financially Conflicted,” Webcast Video
Editorial, MedGenMed
(Medscape), 5/08/07
“Why Only Non-Health Care Business Can Fix Health Care,”
NCI Talk Live, World Health Care Congress, DC, 4/22/07.
“Interview
with Gary Kaplan MD, CEO, Seattle’s Virginia Mason Health
System,” World Helath Care
Congress, DC, 4/22/07.
“Being
Proactive with P4P,” Video
Commentary, NCI Talk at the
National Community Oncology
Conference, DC, 2/08/07.
“Rationalizing
the Supply Chain,” Video
Commentary, NCI Talk at the World
Congress Supply Chain Leadership
Summit, Orlando, 1/25/07.
“Pain
or Disaster,” Video
Commentary, NCI Talk at the
Integrated Delivery Network Summit, Orlando, 9/06/06.
EXPERT
BLOG POSTS
At this point the majority
of my posts appear on at least six different popular health
care web sites. Five of those sites are targeted at health
care professionals; the other is aimed at consumers.
2010
The Makings of a Great
Outcome,
5/4/10
Clinical Groupware - Platforms, Not
Software 4/24/10
(with David C. Kibbe)
Are We Adequately Securing Personal
Health Information, 4/04/10 (with David C. Kibbe)
Value Trumps Price in Onsite
Clinics, 4/02/10
Really Managing Care and
Cost, 3/22/10
Vote Yes, 3/20/10 (with David C. Kibbe)
The Surprise, 3/15/10
Why Rush Vendor Certification of EHR
Technologies,
3/06/10 (with David C. Kibbe)
After the Failure of
Reform, 3/01/10
(with David C. Kibbe)
The Silver Lining, 1/2010 (with David C. Kibbe)
EHRs for a Small
Planet, 1/09/10
(with David C. Kibbe MD)
A Special Edition of Health Wonk Review -
American Health Care Reform: Observations
from Health Care Analysts, 1/07/10
2009
2009: A Year of Surprises and Change for
the EHR Technology Market, 12/06/09 (with David Kibbe MD)
The Health Internet vs. the NHIN: A
Matter of Cost, Control and Timing, 11/19/09 (with David Kibbe MD)
Will Business Force Reform Back to the
Drawing Board, 11/13/09 (with David Kibbe MD)
Saving Health Care, Saving
America,
10/30/09 (with David Kibbe, Robert Laszewski and Alain
Enthoven)
A Message For America’s Physicians:
Purchasing EHR Technologies a Shakey State of
Affairs,
10/28/09 (with David Kibbe MD)
Why Standards Matter 2: Health IT Enters
a New Era of Regulatory Control, 10/14/09, (with
David Kibbe MD)
Will Republicans Be Spoilers or
Problem-Solvers on Health Care
Reform
Health Care Reform's Deeper
Problems,
8/27/09 (with David Kibbe MD)
Why Standards Matter (1): The True
Meaning of Interoperability, 8/17/09 (with David Kibbe MD)
Why Congress Should Consider Bob
Laszewski's Health Care Affordability Model,
7/9/09.
Behind the Curtain: Wendell Potter on the
Health Industry's Management of Care and
Reform, 7/10/09.
A Dream of Reason, 6/22/09
The Health Industry's Achilles
Heel, 6/10/09
Bringing Patients into the Discussion
About Meaningful Use, 5/21/09. (with David Kibbe
MD).
An Open Letter (3) to the New National
Coordinator for Health IT: Certification as the
Elephant in Health IT's Living Room, 5/6/09, (with David Kibbe,
MD)
An Open Letter (2) to the New National
Coordinator for Health IT: Opening the Aperture of
Innovation,
4/22/09, (with David Kibbe, MD)
An Open Letter to the New National
Coordinator for Health IT (1): Untying HITECH's Gordian
Knot, 4/16/09,
(with David Kibbe, MD)
A Self-Fulfilling Prophesy: The
Continuity of Care Record Gains Ground As A
Standard,
4/10/09
Will CIGNA Remake the Health Plan
Marketplace? 3/30/09.
Is the Health Care Economy
Rightsizing? 3/11/09.
Five Recommendations For An ONC Head Who
Understands Health IT Innovation, 3/06/09, (with David Kibbe, MD)
The AMA Wins A Round Against
Accountability and Patient
Information,
2/06/09
Five Shovel-Ready Health Care
Reforms,
1/20/09, (with David Kibbe, MD)
Welcome to Health Wonk
Review, 1/09/09.
Let's Reboot America's Health IT
Conversation 2: Beyond EHRs, 1/6/09, (with David Kibbe,
MD)
Let's Reboot America's Health IT
Conversation 1: Putting EHRs in
Context,
1/5/09, (with David
Kibbe, MD)
2008
An
Open Letter to the Obama Health
Team,
12/15/08, (with
David Kibbe, MD)
Small
Business Coverage: A Report from the
Trenches,
11/25/08.
America's CEOs Set Priorities for Obama
Administration,
11/21/08.
Two Mea Culpas, 11/19/08.
The Changes We Need, 11/18/08.
Can Health Plans Explain Why They Aren't
Re-Empowering Primary Care?, 10/30/08.
An Impending Hanging: Will Health 2.0 Be
Compromised by the Economic
Downturn, 10/21/08.
Health Care and The Broader Economic
Crisis, 10/02/08
Chastened and More Sober, Harry and
Louise Return, 8/21/08
From
Description to Action: The Future of Health 2.0
Tools , 7/28/08
Health Systems’ Ferocious Challenges, 7/22/08
Is Meaningful Health Care (Or Any Other Kind Of) Reform
Possible, 7/17/08
More on Physician Reimbursement, CMS, and the AMA’s RVS
Update Committee, with Roy Poses MD,
5/08/08
A
Hat Tip to Pediatrician Dr. Benjamin
Spock, 5/2/08
The
State of Employer-Sponsored
Coverage, 4/29/08
An
Open Response To HHS Secretary Leavitt on Medicare
Physician Data Transparency, with Michael Millenson,
4/22/08
The
Security of Patient Data, 4/08/08
Knowledge
Like Clear Water: Muir Gray on Health Care’s
Progress, 4/07/08
Health
Wonk Review, 4/03/08
On
Corporate Health Care: A Response to Brian Klepper and His
Reply, 3/31/08
Rebuilding
the Medical Home: What Walgreens Surely
Sees, 3/28/08
Loving
Our Children, 3/14/08
The
Myth of Health Care Consumerism, 3/13/08
Health
Care and the Gathering Storm, 2/29/08
What
is HHS’ Real Position on Releasing Medicare Physician
Data? 2/08/08
Plumpy’nut,
1/30/08
Families
USA Health Action 2008: An Alternative
Plan, 1/28/08
Families
USA Health Action 2008: Berwick on Everything Health
Care, 1/28/08
Families
USA Health Action 2008: Anthony Fauci MD on Global
Health, 1/28/08
Families
USA Health Action 2008: Tom Daschle on Health Care
Reform, 1/28/08
Families
USA Health Action 2008: Nancy Pelosi’s Health Care
Address, 1/24/08
The
Cost of Diabetes, 1/24/08
Four
Big Trends, 1/15/08
A
Clear, Steady Song, 1/12/08
Leveraging
The Doctor As A Trusted
Authority,
1/09/08
On
Practical Reforms, 1/08/08
Jack
La Lanne, 1/06/08
On
Medical Miracles, 1/04/08
The
Politics of Publicly Funded Health
Care, 1/03/08
An
Eater’s Manifesto: “Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly
Plants.” 1/02/08
2007
Health
Care Quote of the Year, 12/21/07
Business
As Usual: California’s Reform
Proposal, 12/20/07
Shannon
Brownlee’s
Overtreated, 12/19/07
Policy-
vs. Market-based Reforms: RHIOs As A Case
Study, 12/17/07
Bad
Medicine: How The AMA Undermined Primary Care in
America, 12/13/07
If
Grady Fails, 11/28/07
Why
Consumers’ Checkbook v. CMS is a
Sideshow, 10/30/08
Aspen
Report 3 – Removing The Blinders: Dr. Kelman’s Wonderful
Contribution, 10/18/07
We
Are What We Eat: Where Is America’s
Leadership, 10/17/07
What
Obesity Really Costs, 10/16/07
Aspen
Report 2 – Healing Unbound: The Promised of Advancing
Computational Power, 10/15/07
Health
2.0 and the Promise of Market-Based
Reform, 10/15/07
Aspen
Report 1 – A Rage To Know: A Few Days at the Aspen Health
Forum, 10/14/07
A
Broad Vision of Health 2.0: Reformulating Data for
Transparency, Decision Support and Revitalized Health
Markets, with Jane Sarasohn-Kahn,
10/12/07
Bogle
on the Financial Sector’s Threat to
Democracy, 10/3/07
The
Hot Seat: UAW and GM, 10/3/07
Goldsmith’s
Wisdom, 10/1/07
A
Red Tide Bloom, 9/30/07
Welcome
to Health 2.0, 9/20/07
Health
Care Is A Hairball and Other Learnings from Health
2.0, with Pat Salber, 9/20/07
How
Might Information Technology Actually Change Health
Care, 9/19/07
What
About Health Plan Transparency, 9/16/07
Taking
Obesity Seriously, 9/12/07
Could
America Reap International Good Will By Ramping Up its
Health Diplomacy Efforts? 9/12/07
Welcome
to Health Wonk Review, 9/6/07
Reform’s
Tougher Problem, 8/29/07
Confessions
of a Walking Fool, 8/28/07.
Health
Care’s Tougher Problem, 8/27/07.
Another
Step Toward Transparency, 8/27/07
What
Are They Thinking: ONCHIT and
RTI,
8/24/07
Evaluating
The Quality of Quality Improvement Claims: The Population
Health Impact Institute, 8/24/07
Benign Neglect and the Nursing
Shortage, 8/21/07
Not
Paying for Preventable Errors: A Big
Step, 8/20/07
Five
Things Everyone With Diabetes Should
Know, 8/20/07
OMNI:
The Oncology Metrics National
Index, 8/20/07
Essential
Reading: Laszewski on Rove and Medicare
D, 8/17/07
Can
We Talk, Frankly?, 8/17/07
Consultants
to Hospitals: Prepare for
Transparency, 8/16/07
In
McDonalds vs. Kids, Guess Who’s
Ahead, 8/16/07
The
Father of Physical Culture, 8/16/07
Managed
Care Redux, 8/15/07
It Dawned on the New York Times Too, 8/14/07
Brokers: Why They Feel Their Commissions Are Justified,
8/14/07
Brokers: A Price Above Rubies, 8/13/07
Show Me Yours And I’ll Show You Mine: Transparency and
Health Care Power Shifts, 8/9/07
We Must Be Stupid, Stupid, Stupid: Mega Life and Health,
8/1/07
Don’t Invite Anyone From Health Care, 7/29/07
Mr. Bush’s Health Care Reform Proposal, 7/25/07
Crabby Doctors and the Explosion of Big Practices, 7/22/07
Should
We Have Health Care Performance Transparency? By Whom? And
How? 7/19/07
To An Engaged Life, 7/18/07
To Fix Health Care, Fix America First, 7/16/07
Those Crazy Californians: This Time Its Childhood Obesity,
7/14/07
Management Case Study: Virginia Mason, 7/14/07
Crimes and Punishments: Zheng and Crawford, 7/12/07
Why Its Unlikely That We’ll Curb Obesity and Diabetes,
7/10/07
Mr. Orszag’s Surprise, 7/6/07
Heartened, 7/5/07
RHIOs: Translators in Health Care Babel, 6/24/07
The Cognitive Dissonance of Conflicted Care,
6/15/07Breakfast of Champions: A Response To Nobelist
Daniel McFadden’s Wall Street Journal Article on Health
Care Dynamics, 3/3/07
Can Consumerism Save Health Care, 2/27/06
Where is that Tipping Point, 8/09/05
Klepper on Porter, 3/20/05
MEDIA
COVERAGE (since 2001)
Kimberly Morrison, MDI Healthcare Software Predicts
Trouble, Bizjournals, 12/16/09.
Dana Blankenhorn, 2010 Will Be the Year of Health Record
Implementation, ZDNet, 12/11/09.
Jeremy Cox, Insurance Reimbursement Rates Likely
Won't rise Despite UnitedHealth
Settlement, Florida Times-Union,
1/19/09.
Editorial, Expensive Record
System, Providence (RI)
Journal, 1/17/09.
Dana Blankenhorn, Another Big Win for
Checklists, ZDNet, 1/15/09.
Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, Blog Watch, 1/13/09.
David Hamilton, Electronic Medical Records: A New
Backlash, BNET Health Insights,
1/12/09.
Dana Blankenhorn, The Kibbe-Klepper Challenge to Medicine
As Usual, 1/08/09.
Dana Blankenhorn, Do the Simple Stuff First is Klepper's
Law, 1/07/09.
Analysis: Moving Health IT Beyond
EHRs, AHIP Solutions
Smartbrief, 1/06/09.
Kimberly Morrison, Job growth in Jacksonville health care
providers masks ills, Jacksonville
Business Journal, 1/02/09.
Lisa Wangsness, Letter Highlights Hurdles in Digitizing
Health Records, Boston
Globe, 1/01/09.
Dana Blankenhorn, Fixing the Blame on the EHR
mess, ZDNet,
1/01/09
Rebecca Ruiz, The Future of Health
Care, Forbes, 12/24/08.
Kaiser Daily Health
Policy Report, Blog Watch, 12/16/08.
Kaiser Daily Health
Policy Report, Blog Watch, 11/21/08.
Kaiser Daily Health
Policy Report, Blog Watch, 10/31/08
Kaiser Daily Health
Policy Report,
Blog Watch, 8/05/08.
Erica Peterson, “Would
You Like A Prescription With
That?”
Medill
Reports, Chicago, 5/28/08.
John Dorschner, Crist
Seeks Hospital Deregulation, The Miami
Herald, 3/03/08.
Editorial Board, “No
Solution in Sight,” The Florida
Times-Union, 1/3/08.
Editorial Board, “Major
Decisions,” The Florida
Times-Union, 1/1/08.
Jeremy Smerd, “Workers
Opting Out Of Employer Health
Coverage,” Financial
Week, 12/19/07.
Susan Kelly, “New
GM Slogan? Viva the VEBA,” Financial
Week, 10/8/07.
Coleen Hawn, “GM’s
New Landmark Labor Agreement Still Faces
Challenges,” Financial
Week, 9/28/07.
Joanne Wojic,
Benefits Experts Leery of Clinton Health
Plan, Business
Insurance, 9/24/07.
Urvaksh Karkaria, “Survey
Says Health Insurance Premiums Will Continue to
Climb,” Florida
Times-Union, 9/12/97.
Carol Gentry, “A Bill of
Health That Doesn’t Add Up,” Tampa
Tribune, 8/26/07.
Editorial Page, “Find
Solutions Now,” Florida Times
Union, 8/15/07.
Louise Esola, “Most
Presidential Candidates Keep Quiet On Health
Care,” Business
Insurance, 5/28/07.
Olga Pierce, “Workers
Want Health Care From Jobs,” UPI, 4/12/07.
Kaiser Network Health Policy Report, “Medical
Service Prices, Provider Payments Could Change as Health
Insurers Increasingly Make Cost Data
Public,” Kaiser Network.org.
John Dorschner, “High
Prices Don’t Translate Into Better Care in South
Florida,” Miami Herald, 12/17/06.
Amy Mangan, “Prescription for Reform,” Ocala Style, 11/06.
John Dorschner, “Daunting Data: Hospital Flaws Go Public,”
Miami Herald, 10/29/06.
Jeremy Smerd, “Forum to Curb Medical Costs is All
Business,” Workforce Management, 10/24/06.
Jeremy Smerd, “Stuck in the Waiting Room,” Workforce
Management, 9/25/06.
John Dorschner, “Study: Florida not getting money’s worth
in health plans,” Miami Herald, 9/19/06.
John Dorschner, “Inside the ER,” Miami Herald, 8/09/06.
Fred Hiers, “Residents urged to learn about health care,”
Ocala Star Banner, 9/16/06.
http://www.ocala.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060914/NEWS/209140381/1001/NEWS01.
Fierce Healthcare, “Reassessing Health Care Transparency,”
8/17/06,
http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/reassessing-healthcare-transparency/2006-08-17
Jerry Lynott, “Group aims to improve health care,”
Wilkes-Barre (PA) Times-Leader, 7/27/006,
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/15132660.htm
Jeremy Smerd, “Legislators Reconsider Health Care Mandates
After Wal-Mart Bill Is Dismissed,” Workforce Management,
7/21/06.
Urvaksh Karkaria, “Healthcare in the Workplace,” Florida
Times-Union, 6/4/06,
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/060406/bus_3281978.shtml
Jerry Geisel, “States Lead The Way On Health Care Reform,”
Business Insurance, 5/15/06.
John Dorschner, “New Plans For Small Businesses Launched,”
Miami Herald, Bradenton Herald,
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/14554722.htm,
5/11/06
Shari Rudavsky, “Rush is on to Meet Medicare Deadline,”
Indianapolis Star,
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060508/NEWS01/605080416,
5/08/06
Len Strazewski, Rx for Savings, Chicago Conscious Choice,
4/06
Richard L. Reece MD, Feeling the Impact: Key Operational
Trends in Healthcare Healthleaders News, 4/06/06.
Jeremy Smerd, Massachusetts Health Care Bill Passes With
Employer Support, Workforce Management, 4/06/06.
frf.org, Florida Retail Federation Health Care Benefits
Report, 11/22/05.
Associated Press, Speakers: Accountability needed to drive
down health costs , Caspar Star Tribune, 10/26/05.
Joanne Wocjik, Enrollment Changes Seen As Undermining NCQA
Quality Effort, Business Insurance, 10/10/05.
Matthew Holt, The Health Care Blog, Individual Health
Insurance, Going Cheap!, 7/07/05
Dave Lindorff, ILCA Online, International Labor
Communications Association, Even U.S. Corporations Like
Canada's National Health Plan, 3/28/05.
John Dorschner, Miami Herald, National Attitudes Reflect
Rises in Health Costs, 3/24/05.
Benefits News, Center draws diverse interests to reform
health system, 1/13/05.
Joanne Wojcik, Business Insurance, United Acquires
Definity, 12/25/04.
John Dorschner, Miami Herald, Inside the ER, 8/9/04.
Jerry Geisel, Business Insurance, Urgent Needs of Health
System May United Buyers, Providers, 6/14/04.
Pamela DeWitt, HealthLeaders, Blue Card, 4/04.
Russ Pulliam, Indy Star, Innovative Thoughts on Health Care
Issues, 3/14/04.
Daniel deVise, Miami Herald, “Insurer Won’t Cover Gastic
Bypass,” 3/2/04.
David Royse, Associated Press, “KidCare Funding Among Top
Florida Legislative Issues, 2/22/04.
Joanne Wojcic, Business Insurance, “Mandates Targeted to
Ease Health Crisis,” 1/26/04.
John Dorschner, Miami Herald, “Prescription for Lower
Health Care Costs,” 12/15/03; Indianapolis Star, “Health
Care Beckons Reform,” 1/12/04.
Florida Department of Insurance, Draft Report, (Florida)
Governor’s Task Force on Access to Affordable Health
Insurance, 12/3/03.
Judy Greenwald, Business Insurance, “Deal To Create New HMO
Giant,” 11/3/03.
Al Crenshaw, Washington Post, “Mergers are Continuation of
Health Care Trend,” 10/28/03.
Joanne Wojcik, Business Insurance, “Patient Safety Survey
Participation Grows,” 10/20/03.
John Dorschner, Miami Herald, “Expert: Time for a Change in
the System,” 9/23/03.
John Dorschner, Miami Herald, “Why Are Local Health Care
Costs Among The Highest In The Nation?” 7/22/03.
Ron Panko, Best Review, Health Emergency, 5/03.
Jay Hein, American Outlook Today (from the Hudson
Institute), “To Solve America’s Health Care Crisis, Think
Small,” 4/11/03.
Robert Kazel, American Medical News, Washington State
Health Plan Starts Tiered Network for Physicians, 3/24/03.
CBS Evening News, Interview on health care liability
reform, 1/16/02.
Associated Press, “Bush Renews Calls for Malpractice Caps,”
on CBSNews.com, 1/16/02.
George Lundberg and Christina Myers, Thanks to the Peer
Reviewers of Medscape General Medicine -- April 1999
through October 2002, Medscape General Medicine, 12/19/02.
Milt Freudenheim, Some Tentative First Steps Toward
Universal Health Care, NY Times, 12/7/02.
Mark Howard, “Cost Crisis,” Cover Article, Florida Trend,
6/02.
Mary Agnes Carey, “Analysts See a Seismic shift in Health
Policy Debate,” Congressional Quarterly Weekly, 60:12,
3/23/02.
Ron Winslow, "Health Debate Emerges as Costs Rise Again,"
Wall Street Journal, 12/17/01.
Deborah J. Neveleff, “Seeking new systems of care, group
outlines prescription for reform,” Commentary, Physician
Practice Options, 12/01.
“Reform Principles for Improving the Health Care System,”
Open Minds Online, 11/19/01.
“Nonprofit Group Sets Sights on Healthcare Reform,” For the
Record, 13:23, 14, 11/12/01.
Greg Scandlen, “Scandlen’s Health Policy Comments,”
National Center for Policy Analysis, 11/12/01.
“Reform group issues principles for improving the health
care system,” AHA News Now, 11/5/01.
Joanne Wojcik, “New group seeks a cure for what ails U.S.
health care: The Jackson Hole of the 21st Century,”
Business Insurance, 11/5/01, pg. 3.
George D. Lundberg, MD. “American Health System Reform:
Circa 2001-2002, Medscape General Medicine, 10/22/01.
Ron Winslow, “Downturn Raises Pressure on Companies to Pass
More Health Costs Onto Workers,” The Wall Street Journal,
9/27/01.
INVITED
MAJOR PRESENTATIONS (since 2003)
2010
Keynote, Magnetic
Resonance Managers’ Society, “What’s New,” San Antonio,
4/26/10.
Presentation, Association
for Corporate Growth, What Just Happened With Reform,
Jacksonville, 1/27/10.
Presentation,
Minnesota School Association, “Why
Onsite Clinics are Transformational,” Minneapolis,
1/14/10.
2009
Keynote, "Behind the
Health Care Reform Curtain: Studies in Chaos,"
Consortium
for Southeastern Hypertension Control Annual Scientific
Meeting, Kingsport, TN, 10/24/09.
Panel Moderator, "B2B2C Health 2.0 Services the Health Care
Industry" (10/6/09) and "B2B Health 2.0 for Health Plans
(10/07/09)," Health
2.0 Conference, San Francisco, October
6-7, 2009.
Keynote, "What Policy- and Market-Based Reforms Will Mean
For Physicians," Palm
Beach County Medical Society, Jupiter, 10/2/09.
Keynote, "Minimally Invasive Surgeries As A Path To Lower
Costs and Higher Quality," Ethicon
Endo-Surgery and the Wisconsin Manufacturers' Association
Webinar on MIP, Milwaukee, 9/29.
Facilitation, "An Employer Collaborative in the Greater
Atlanta Area," The
Georgia Governor's Health Care Summit - Follow-Up
Meeting, The Capitol, Atlanta,
9/09/09.
Keynote, "Onsite Clinics: Employers Leveraging Primary Care
To Drive Down Cost and Improve Quality,"
Paragon Benefits Health Care Symposium, Dalton, GA, 9/08/09.
Presentation,"Why Onsite Clinics Work," Jacksonville
Charter Revision Commission, Jacksonville, FL
8/27/09.
Keynote, "Employers Driving Meaningful Change Through
Market Innovation," Albuquerque
Chamber, Albuquerque 7/23/09.
Testimony, "CCHIT's Apparent Conflict of Interest with
HIMSS," HHS
Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's Policy
Committee, DC, 7/14/09.
Keynote, "Employers Driving Meaningful Change Through
Market Innovation," Georgia
Governor's Health Care Summit, Atlanta, 7/21/09.
Keynote, "Will We Get Meaningful Health Care
Reform?" Stetson
Conference on Policy and Health Care, Deland, FL, 6/10/09.
Keynote and Facilitator, Leadership
Florida Health Day, University of Miami,
Miami, 5/14/09.
Keynote, "How Successful
Physicians Will Respond
To Market-Driven Reforms,” Medical
Group Management
Association’s OB/GYN Conference, Orlando,
05/03/09.
Keynote, "How the Market Will Change What You
Do,
Magnetic Resonance Managers Society,
Clearwater, 4/29/09.
Keynotes, “How
The Market, Not Policy, Will Drive
Meaningful
Health Care Reform,” Ethicon
Employer Seminars,
Atlanta, Seattle, April 2009.
Closing Keynote, World Congress
Leadership Forum
on Member Retention for Health Plans,
March 18-19, Orlando.
Invited Presentation,
Holston Medical Group
Annual Strategic Retreat,
Asheville,
2/28/09.
Facilitator, WorldDoc Conference on Consumer
Engagement, Orlando,
2/23/09-2/24/09,
Orlando.
Moderator, Health 2.0
Conference, Breakout Demo:
Health
Plans and Health 2.0; Final Conference Session:
Looking Ahead – The
Business and Society of
Health
2.0, San Francisco, 10/22-23/08.
Keynote, “The
Emergence of the Medical Home,”
Holston Medical
Group, Kingsport, TN, 10/10/08.
Keynote, “Market-Based Reforms,” Physician
Sales & Service National
Vendor CEO
Conference, DC, 9/11/08.
Panelist, “The
Challenges Facing IDNs,”
NCI’s
IDN Summit/Expo, Phoenix, 9/3/08.
Keynote, “Rebuilding the
Medical
Home,” Culinary Fund Health Plan Conference, Las
Vegas, 8/26/08.
Keynote, “How Medical Societies
Can
Prepare for the Tsunami of Change in the Marketplace,
American Association of Medical Society
Executives, Minneapolis, 7/26/08.
Keynotes, “Why The Market, Not Policy, Will Drive Reform,”
Medcom Employer Seminars, Tampa
06/11/08, Atlanta
06/13/08.
Keynote, Vermont Managed Care Annual Health
Care Conference, 6/05/08.
Moderator and Keynote, How Health Care Reform Will Come
From The Market, Not Policy, The Northeast Florida Health
Care Symposium, Jacksonville 05/16/08.
Moderator, Health 2.0, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Conference on Community Linkages, Amelia Island, FL
05/15/08.
Keynote, Acclamation’s LuminX Users’ Conference, Tampa,
4/14/08.
Invited Presentation, The Promise and Peril of Health 2.0,
Health Executives Leadership Network, Sarasota, 3/07/08.
Keynote, Center for Primary Care Physicians Retreat,
Oconee, GA, 2/29/08.
Web-Conference with Matthew Holt, Health Care Issue Jam,
Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives, DC, 2/5/08.
Keynote, Leadership Jacksonville’s Health Day, 12/06/07.
Luncheon Address, Florida Retail Federation’s Annual
Conference, Daytona Beach. 11/12/07.
Keynote, Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce Annual
Business Leadership Conference, 10/29/07.
Keynote, MediTech’s 2007 National Physician/CIO Conference,
Boston, 10/18/07.
Keynote, Regional Summit, Northeast Florida Regional Health
Organization, Jacksonville, 6/1/07.
Facilitator, AmerisourceBergen Hospital Leadership Forum,
Ponte Vedra, FL 5/30/07.
Keynote, Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce Executives Health
Care Conference, Harrisburg, 5/23/07.
Keynote, Beaufort Memorial Hospital’s Board Retreat, Parris
Island, SC, 5/21/07.
Luncheon Keynote, “Oddball Health Care Programs (That
Work),” National Health Innovators Confab, Nashville,
5/10/07.
Facilitator, AmerisourceBergen’s Hospital Leadership Forum,
Palm Beach, 2/28/07.
Keynote, Annual Meeting: Toward Transparency and P4P, Palm
Beach Medical Society, Palm Beach, 2/22/06.
Video Comment, “Being ProActive With P4P,” NCI Talk Live at
the Elsevier Community Oncology Conference, DC, 2/08/07.
Video Comment, “Rationalizing The Supply Chain,” NCI Talk
Live at the World Congress Leadership Summit on Supply
Chain Management, Orlando, 1/25/07.
Facilitator, Chamber Choice, Employers Taking Back Health
Care, Pittsburgh, 1/12/07.
Invited Panelist, COSE, Future of US Healthcare: Scenario
Planning Workshop, Cleveland, OH, 11/28-29/06.
Facilitator, Nevada Health Care Coalition’s CEOs
Conference, Reno, 10/12/06.
Keynote, Public Policy Institute of Marion County,
Disrupting the Drivers of the Health Care Crisis, Ocala,
9/13/06.
Keynote, P4P and Competitiveness, A RHIO for Northeast
Pennsylvania, 7/26/06.
Presentations (3), National Patient Safety Congress, San
Francisco, 5/9/06-5/10/06
Why Business Must Drive Meaningful Reform
How Pay-for-Performance Will Change Everything in Health
Care
Controlling the Costs of Clinical Technologies
Keynote, Beaufort Memorial Hospital’s Board Retreat, Hilton
Head, SC 3/17/06
Keynote, Vermont Healthcare Symposium, Burlington, 3/8/06.
Keynote, Health Care Administrators Association’s Annual
Executive Forum, Las Vegas, 2/9/06.
Keynote, The National Health Benefits Conference/Expo,
Clearwater, 1/26/06.
Keynote, Health FairUSA/Edify Annual Employer HC Symposium,
Ft. Lauderdale, 12/02/05.
Keynote, Florida Employer Associations’ Healthcare
Roundtable, Tallahassee, 11/17/05.
Keynote, Florida Retail Federation, St. Petersburg,
11/15/05.
Keynote, Greater Cheyenne Chamber’s Health Care Round
Table, Cheyenne WY, 10/24/05
Keynote, Council of State Retail Associations, Savannah,
10/23/05
Chair and Panelist, AHRQ-Florida AHCA Conference on State
Public Healthcare Reporting, DC, 9/28/05
Keynote, IUOE Annual Meeting, DC, 8/17/05.
Panel Chair, Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives,
St. Louis, 8/12/05.
Keynote, EOC 2005, Western Regional Blue Cross and Blue
Shield Plans, Whistler, BC, 6/8/05.
Presentation, Leadership Florida, Miami, 3/12/05
Keynote, 2005 Coal Industry Benefits and Compensation
Meeting, Sedona, AZ, 5/2/05
Presentation, Detroit Chamber’s Invitational Conference on
Health Care Solutions, 4/15/05, Detroit.
Presentation (w/ Patricia Salber MD), AMA Health Care
Reform Task Force, Chicago, 4/8/05
Keynote, Hospital and Health System Association of
Pennsylvania, Hershey, 4/5/05.
Presentation (w/ P. Salber), California Medical
Association’s Executive Committee, 3/24/05
Closing Address, Alliance of Community Health Plans,
Naples, FL 3/22/05.
Facilitation, The Health Care Supply Chain Summit, Newport
Beach, 3/14/05.
Keynote, The Microsoft Employer Forum on Healthcare,
Redmond, WA, 3/9/05
Keynote, The Florida Health Law Institute, Orlando,
2/17/05.
Keynote,” The Florida Chamber Foundation, Tallahassee,
2/8/05.
Presentation, Florida’s Comprehensive Healthcare
Information System Task Force, Orlando, 1/28/05.
Keynote, World Research Group’s Meeting on Diabetes Disease
Management, Atlanta, 1/20/05.
Keynote, The Estes Park Institute, Scottsdale, 1/17/05.
Opening Keynote, The Unified Health Alliance Conference on
Health Care Reform, DC, 1/10/05.
Opening Keynote, The American Academy of Family
Physicians/Center for Practical Health Reform Conference
Medical Society Convention, Chicago, 11/1/04.
Panel Moderator, NCI’s IDN Summit and Expo, “The Miracle of
New Technologies and Innovations: How Do We Bear The
Costs,” Phoenix, 10/4/04.
Opening Keynote, The Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Association’s Annual CFO Retreat, Orlando, 9/23/04.
Opening Keynote, Endowment for Health Strategic Conference,
Concord, NH, 9/22/04.
Keynote, Calfornia Health Care Foundation Leadership
Seminar, San Diego, 9/8/04.
Opening Keynote, Florida Nursing Association Policy
Conference, St. Petersburg, 8/14/04.
Opening Keynote, Bank of America CFO Retreat, Idaho Falls,
8/6/04.
Keynote, The Universitiy of Central Florida ORBIT
Conference on Health Care & Defense IT, 7/20/04,
Orlando.
Keynote, Employee Benefits Leadership Forum of the Council
of Insurance Agents and Brokers (CIAB), Greenbriar, WV,
6/2/04
Keynote, Senior Executives Retreat of Blue Cross and Blue
Shield of North
Carolina, Pine Mountain, NC, 5/13/04.
Presentation,
Board of the American Academy of Family
Physicians, Kansas City, 4/27/04.
Keynote, Naples (FL)
Community Health Round Table, 4/20/04.
Presentation, Coalition for Policy Reform in Health
Care, Ft. Myers, 4/19/04.
Keynote, Board Retreat, AvMed Health Plan, Amelia Island
Plantation, FL, 3/28/04.
Opening Keynote, Milliman USA Biennial Healthcare Summit,
Las Vegas, 3/14/04.
Keynote, Hudson Instittue
Project Health Symposium, Indianapolis, 3/11/04.
Keynote, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Focus on the
Uninsured, Jacksonville, 2/23/04.
Keynote, Quantum Foundation Conference, The Consequences of
No Health Insurance, Palm Beach, 2/10/04
Chair, “National Health Care Influencers’ Assembly,” World
Health Care Congress, DC, 1/27/04.
Keynote, Florida Chamber Board of Governors, Captiva, FL
11/14/03.
Keynote, Kansas City Health Care RoundTable, 11/11/03.
Keynote, Florida House Select Panel on Affordable Health
Care, Pensacola, 11/6/03.
Keynote, The American Council of Chamber Executives
Meeting, Charlotte, 10/29/04.
Keynote, Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting, Orlando,
10/28/03.
Keynote, Greater Charlotte Health Care Executives Group,
Charlotte, 9/25/03.
Keynote, The Florida Health Insurance Legislative
Symposium, Coral Gables, 9/22/03.
Keynote, BCBS Florida Annual National Consultants Forum,
Orlando, 4/3/03.
Keynote, US Employers Summit on Health Care, Crystal City,
VA, 3/28/03.
Invited Presentation, Broward County Medical Society Annual
Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, 3/26/03.
Keynote, Annual Meeting, BCBS Consortium Health Plans,
Charleston, 3/21/03.
Keynote, Annual Meeting, Alliance of American Insurers,
Tampa, 2/20/03.
Keynote, Askew Institute Annual Meeting, University of
Florida Institute of Government, Gainesville, 2/13/03.