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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.

Who Is Brian Klepper?

Based just off the beach on the beautiful, balmy Northeast Florida coast, Brian Klepper is a health care analyst, business development consultant, writer and speaker. Over many years, he has developed a national reputation for thoughtful, reasonable perspectives on complex health care issues.

Dr. Klepper consults with health care organizations and business groups to create market visibility that leverages performance, and to take advantage of emerging trends that promise to positively transform both health care quality and cost:

Worksite clinics that are the most fully realized examples of medical homes.

Health 2.0 ventures that use the Web to facilitate new information that is connected to patients, clinicians and business managers.

New clinical technologies - e.g., minimally invasive procedures - that can dramatically reduce complications, pain, risk and cost.

Value-based insurance designs that incentivize the benefits we know are high value and disincent the ones we know are not.

Medical tourism that takes advantage of a national and global marketplace.

Early in his career Dr. Klepper led a health care consulting practice that developed or repaired new companies and programs in all kinds of health care environments. Then, in 1999, realizing that health care was headed for massive systemic disruptions, he changed course to work on reform. That experience allowed him to begin to understand the deep structural mechanisms that underlie the crisis, and what it will take to put the system on a stable footing again.

He serves as Editor for MedPedia, as Editor-at-Large for Community Oncology, and as one of only three non-physicians on the International Editorial Board of Medscape General Medicine, ,

He is also a regular columnist on several of the best-respected and most widely-read expert health care blogs - The Health Care Blog, Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review, Health Commentary and Health Wonk Review.

He is an Aspen Institute Health Forum Fellow, and the only non-physician Board member of the Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control, a group at the scientific leading edge in managing patients with vascular disease.

He is a Principal in three firms. Healthcare Performance provides market analyses and strategic services to the industry. Health 2.0 Advisors counsels health care firms on ways to use the Web to facilitate knowledge exchange, patient engagement, pricing and performance transparency, transactional streamlining and decision support. WeCare TLC develops and manages onsite clinics for employers and other organizations.

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, Workforce Management, HealthLeaders and newspapers around the country.

This site presents Dr. Klepper’s new articles, blog columns and videos. It archives past materials, and distills the steps he believes are crucial to meaningful reform.

Thanks for stopping by. Take a look around. Please get in touch - bklepper@gmail.com, 904-343-2921 - if you have any questions or comments.