Biography
Dr. Bauer is an internationally recognized health futurist and medical economist. As an independent industry thought leader, he forecasts the evolution of health care and develops practical approaches to improving the medical sector of the American economy. He is widely known for his specific proposals to create efficient, effective health care through multi-stakeholder partnerships and other initiatives focused in the private sector. Dr. Bauer has more than 300 publications on health care 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 (2020), 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) and Telemedicine and the Reinvention of Health Care: The Seventh Revolution in Medicine (McGraw-Hill, 1999). 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 Health Care 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 1999, Dr. Bauer was a visiting professor in Administrative Medicine at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 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 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 the viola da gamba (precursor to the cello). He is an active member of the Board of Directors of the Madison Symphony Orchestra and sings in the orchestra’s chorus.
Speech Topics
The Uncertain and Exciting Future of Health Care: Exploring a New Realm of Possibilities
This fast-paced and informative presentation shows how and why health care will change more in this decade than it did in the previous 50 years. From a practical perspective, it explores strategic implications of the unprecedented revolution in medical science, transformational capabilities of information technology, the hidden impact of demographic shifts in the US population, and the economy's role in restructuring supply and demand for medical services. Reform of the delivery system is examined from the speaker’s perspective as a constructive contrarian, with recommendations tailored specifically to the audience's position in the medical marketplace.
The Art and Science of Looking Ahead: Upgrading the Crystal Ball for Creating a Viable Future
Based on the speaker's newest book (Summer, 2013), this unique presentation shows audiences how to make strategic changes through informed analysis of actual trends and possible outcomes. It explains the major difference between predicting and forecasting and shows why forecasts must replace predictions as our way to evaluate where we are headed and how to get there successfully. The presentation identifies resources and makes recommendations appropriate for any organization that wants to expand its realm of future opportunities for success in turbulent, uncertain times. [Note: This speech is appropriate for any business audience; it is not specific to health care.]
Mastering Chaos: Creativity 101 for Health Care's Daring Spirits
This unique program begins with a practical, entertaining overview of the key characteristics of innovation for leaders who want to create something new of value. It uses examples of art, poetry, science, music, and other creative endeavors to define the mind-set of people who make an enduring, positive difference in their respective fields. The presentation concludes with a detailed list of personal and professional steps that health care leaders can take to enhance their success in meeting the ultimate challenge of health reform -- reinventing the way health care is delivered.
Future of the Medical Marketplace
In-depth analysis of changes in payment and responses.
Future of Medical Care and Delivery (realistic 2 to 5 year forecasts and practical responses)
Multi-stakeholder Partnerships
Success in provider, purchaser, payer, & patient collaboration.
Population Health: The Bottom Line in Health Reform
Dr. Bauer will discuss the concept of population health and the relationship between population health and the goals of health reform.
The Election’s Assault on Health Reform: What’s Going Wrong and How to Get It Right
This nonpartisan presentation updates Democratic and Republican approaches to health reform and explains why neither party’s plan will solve the problems of cost, quality, and access. Respected for the remarkable accuracy of his forecasts over the past 30 years, Dr. Bauer shows providers, purchasers, payers and their business partners how to avoid future disasters of government-driven reform. This entertaining and informative speech includes a results-oriented plan based on his latest book, Paradox and Imperatives in Health Care: Redirecting Reform for Efficiency and Effectiveness and explains how population health can be optimized without any further increases in medical spending…an idea whose time has come.
Not What the Doctor Ordered: The Imperative for Advanced Practitioners
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.
A Realistic Update on Health Reform: Responding to Challenges and Opportunities
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.
The Future of Healthcare and What You Can Do About It
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.
The Uncertain and Exciting Future of Health Care: Exploring a New Realm of Possibilities
This fast-paced and informative presentation shows how and why health care will change more in this decade than it did in the previous 50 years. From a practical perspective, it explores strategic implications of the unprecedented revolution in medical science, transformational capabilities of information technology, the hidden impact of demographic shifts in the US population, and the economy's role in restructuring supply and demand for medical services. Reform of the delivery system is examined from the speaker’s perspective as a constructive contrarian, with recommendations tailored specifically to the audience's position in the medical marketplace.
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