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Jeff Bauer is a Trend Expert Specializing in Healthcare. With 35 years as a professor and consultant, Dr. Bauer is a nationally recognized expert on key trends that shape the future of health care.

Jeff Bauer, Ph.D., is a nationally recognized health futurist and medical economist. He is a partner in the management consulting practice of ACS Healthcare Solutions (Dearborn, MI), a leading provider of outsourcing, information technology, and strategic business solutions to the healthcare industry. In his numerous publications and presentations, he forecasts the future of healthcare and describes practical, creative approaches to improving the delivery system.

Dr. Bauer has published more than 145 articles, books, Web pages, and videos on healthcare delivery. He speaks frequently to national audiences about key trends in healthcare, medical science, technology, reimbursement, information systems, public policy, and creative problem solving. Dr. Bauer is quoted often in the national press and writes regularly for professional journals that cover the business of healthcare.

His latest books are Telemedicine and the Reinvention of Health Care: The Seventh Revolution in Medicine (McGraw-Hill, 1999), Not What the Doctor Ordered (McGraw-Hill, 1998) and Statistical Analysis for Health Care Decision-Makers (McGraw-Hill, 1996). He is currently completing a book on performance improvement, Health Care’s E-Imperatives: How Efficiency, Effectiveness, and E-Transformation Can Conquer Waster and Optimize Quality (Productivity Press, Fall 2007), and publishing a series of Web articles on key trends in selected clinical services.

Dr. Bauer was a full-time teacher and administrator at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver (1973-1984). He held full-time academic appointments as associate professor in the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and administrative appointment as assistant chancellor for Planning and Program Development. Additionally, Dr. Bauer was a senior fellow at the Center for the New West in Denver (1992-2001). His previous consulting firm, The Bauer Group, Inc., specialized in consumer-focused strategic planning for developing clinical affiliation agreements and multi-hospital networks (1984-1992).

He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Colorado at 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.

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The Reality of Health Reform: Practical Paths to Survival and Growth

As one of the few speakers who maintained political independence during the latest battles to overhaul parts of the health care system, Dr. Bauer presents a balanced analysis of differences between reform’s rhetoric and reality.  He explains what happened in Washington, what’s next, and what to do in response to the overhaul law passed in March, 2010.  This presentation is constantly updated to reflect the ongoing battles between competing interest groups, and it forecasts important changes that are still likely to happen.  His informative, comprehensive speech begins with a “big picture” view and then focuses on implications and responses from the perspective of each audience’s specific interests.      

Forecasting the Future of Health Care: Challenges and Opportunities

One of the country’s most respected health futurists, Dr. Bauer presents an informative and entertaining introduction to the forces that define possibilities for medical care.  He explains different methods for looking ahead and forecasts the future based on his in-depth analysis of the key trends—medical science, technology, demography and epidemiology, reimbursement, and organization of the delivery system.  Implications of key trends and practical responses are presented with respect to the audience’s special interests.  This presentation is continually updated to reflect the latest changes in forces that shape the future.   

Paradox and Imperatives in Health Care: Efficiency, Effectiveness, and E-Transformation

This presentation summarizes the key points of Dr. Bauer’s challenging book by the same title.  He shows why unprecedented financial circumstances can lead to failure for health care providers that pursue “business as usual.”  Dr. Bauer clearly explains how sound economic principles and proven management tools can prevent failures, and he reveals how providers can increase net revenue and provide the quality of care that payers and consumers are demanding at prices they are willing and able to pay.  It shows why waste must be eliminated and how future-focused leaders can put their organizations on a positive path.