Health Futures was founded in 1982 by Jeff Goldsmith. Jeff Goldsmith is one of the nation's foremost health industry analysts, specializing in corporate strategy, trend analysis, health policy and emerging technologies. He has worked across the health system- hospitals, health plans, physician groups, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and health manufacturing and distribution sectors- advising senior management and Boards. Health Futures also helps guide venture and private equity investment in emerging technologies. Jeff Goldsmith writes and lectures actively on health policy, financing and technology, both in the United States and overseas. You can find an active archive of his writings and lecture topics in this site.
Join the Debate about Accountable Care, and link to the Wall Street Journal’s feature in the January 23, 2012 Electronic Edition
A major feature of health reform is the Medicare Shared Savings Program, which uses Accountable Care Organizations (ACO’s) to save money. Learn about this emerging idea, and why it probably isn’t going to work. See the online debate featuring Jeff Goldsmith with two respected former Administrators of the Medicare Program, Dr. Donald Berwick and Thomas Scully in the January 23, 2012 Wall Street Journal. See also Jeff’s face to face debate on
ACO’s with Dr. Timothy Ferris of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on this hot topic.
Breaking Bad: Convict Polls 40% against Obama in West Virginia
President Obama’s political advisors were grateful that he did not face a renomination challenge from the disillusioned left wing of the Democratic party this year. However, they could not have been pleased by the news that a convicted extortionist currently serving a prison term in the federal penitentiary in Texarkana, Texas polled 40% in this week’s West Virginia Democratic primary. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/09/meet-keith-judd-the-felon-challenging-obama.html
Keith Judd, a declared Rastafarian-Christian, paid $2500 to put himself on the Democratic Presidential primary ballot in West Virginia, and got enough votes (72,459 to be exact) to claim a delegate in this summer’s Democratic national convention. Wonder who he will choose?
People with long memories will recall that President Lyndon Johnson was gravely wounded politically in the 1968 New Hampshire Democratic primary when the professorial anti-Vietnam War candidate Eugene McCarthy polled 42% against him. Johnson subsequently withdrew from the race. Obama seems unlikely to withdraw from this year’s race, but must begin to worry about his standing among the white moonshiner/anarchist/convict vote.
P.S. When I entered links, tumblr prompted “Obama steps down” … .
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Date: 05.10.12 Time: 03:58 PM
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Who Says Barack Obama doesn’t Have a Sense of Humor?
Obama supporters are probably wondering where this dry wit and deadpan delivery has been for the past four years. His remarks to this last weekend’s White House Correspondents Dinner clearly suggest it’s time to unleash his most powerful weapon, and it isn’t his intellect. John Kennedy’s wit was on display all year around. Obama actually looks better than Kennedy did in formal wear…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfG8Btb0l3g
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Date: 04.30.12 Time: 12:05 PM
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Foxy Lady!
Not only can Michelle Obama do more push ups (on national TV) than a hyper fit Ellen DeGeneres, but she was a scorching prom date. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/16/michelle-obama-prom-photo_n_1428032.html Ellen pokes fun at the wicker chair and the slit-up-to-there satiny prom dress. Who would not have traded places with Michelle’s date? What’s not to love here: she’s tall, gorgeous, whip smart, fit, funny. . .
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Date: 04.17.12 Time: 12:47 PM
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Recent Keynote Engagements
- Texas Medical Association
- Trizetto
- Thomson Reuters
- Catholic Health East
- William Beaumont Hospitals
- Association of American Medical Colleges
- Federation of American Hospitals
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Medline Industries
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Florida Hospital Association
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Vanguard Health Systems
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Harvard Business Review
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American College of Radiology
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Health 2.0
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America’s Health Insurance Plans
New Book on Future of Radiology and Imaging!
Jeff Goldsmith and Bruce Hillman's The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: How Medical Imaging is Reshaping Health Care (Oxford U Press, 2011) is an inside look at one of medicine's most successful "tribes" and the technology they've built to look inside our bodies Where is radiology heading and how can it benefit society?. Order at Amazon.
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