Jeffrey Bauer
PhD
Internationally Respected Futurist
Medical Economist
Jeff is an internationally recognized health futurist and medical economist. As an independent industry thought leader, he forecasts the evolution of healthcare and develops practical approaches to improving the medical sector of the American economy. He is widely known for his specific proposals to create an efficient and effective healthcare delivery system through multi-stakeholder partnerships and other initiatives focused in the private sector.
Speaking Topics
Future of Healthcare
Innovation
Leadership
Change
Healthcare Leadership
Dr. Bauer speaks frequently to national and international audiences about key trends in healthcare, medical science, technology, reimbursement, public policy, health reform, and creative problem-solving. Dr. Bauer is quoted in the national press and writes regularly for professional journals that cover the business of healthcare.
Dr. Bauer has more than 275 publications on healthcare delivery. His latest books are a 25th anniversary update of his best seller, Not What the Doctor Ordered: Liberating Caregivers and Empowering Consumers for Successful Health Reform (2019), Paradox and Imperatives in Health Care: Redirecting Reform for Efficiency and Effectiveness (2015), and Upgrading Leadership’s Crystal Ball: Five Reasons Why Forecasting Must Replace Predicting and How to Make the Strategic Change in Business and Public Policy (2014). Previous books include Statistical Analysis for Health Care Decision-Makers (CRC Press, 2009), Telemedicine and the Reinvention of Health Care: The Seventh Revolution in Medicine (McGraw-Hill, 1999), and Not What the Doctor Ordered (McGraw-Hill, 1998).
As a consultant, he has assisted hundreds of provider, purchaser, and payer organizations with strategic planning and performance improvement initiatives. He served as Vice President for Healthcare Forecasting and Strategy for ACS, a Xerox Company, from 1999 to 2010. His own consulting firm, The Bauer Group, specialized in consumer-focused strategic planning and clinical affiliation agreements for multi-hospital networks from 1984 to 1992.
In addition, Dr. Bauer was a full-time teacher and administrator at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver from 1973 to 1984, where he held appointments as associate professor and Assistant Chancellor for Planning and Program Development. He also served for four years as Health Policy Adviser to Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm. From 1992 to 1998, Dr. Bauer was a visiting professor in Administrative Medicine at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to starting his career in healthcare, he worked in research meteorology for the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He graduated from Colorado College in Colorado Springs with a B.A. in economics and completed a certificate in political studies at the University of Paris (France). During his academic career, he was a Boettcher Scholar, a Ford Foundation Independent Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar (Switzerland), and a Kellogg Foundation National Fellow. He is an elected member of the Association of Managers of Innovation and an honorary fellow in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.
Dr. Bauer lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he spends his spare time painting (conceptual art in acrylics) and playing viola da gamba (precursor to the cello).
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KEYNOTE TOPICS
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Dr. Jeff Bauer presents compelling scientific proof why consumers deserve direct access to specialized nurses, clinical pharmacists, physical therapists, and other advanced practitioners who provide their health services at least as well as physicians—at lower cost. His entertaining and informative analysis shows why doctors’ old arguments against “mid-levels” are no longer defensible and why competition is the essential next step toward better and less-expensive health care for all Americans.
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Everyone agrees that the current health care delivery system is unsustainable, but there’s no consensus on common solutions to the underlying problems. This survival-oriented presentation evaluates the range of competing approaches to reform — from government interventions to private initiatives — and provides tailored strategies provider organizations and their business partners can use to succeed by improving efficiency and effectiveness in a turbulent marketplace. The content is continually revised to reflect the latest political and economic events.
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This fast-paced, example-filled presentation shows how and why health care will change more in this decade than it did in the previous 50 years. It explores individual implications of the revolution in medical science, new capabilities of information and communications technologies, the impact of demographic shifts in the US population, and the economy’s role in restructuring supply and demand for medical services. Reform and other changes are realistically examined, with specific recommendations tailored to the audience’s interest in health care (consumer, purchaser, provider, etc.). This is a unique insider presentation for outsiders — telling audiences how to optimize individual and corporate interactions with the health care system.
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Based on the speaker’s path-breaking book, Upgrading Leadership’s Crystal Ball, this unique presentation shows audiences in any industry how to identify the realm of possibilities for making strategic changes through informed analysis of defining trends. It explains the differences between predicting and forecasting and shows why forecasts must replace predictions for evaluating where events are likely headed. The presentation identifies specific resources and teaches practical techniques for organizations that want to take a new look at the foundations of success in turbulent, uncertain times.
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