Dr. Bauer is a nationally recognized health futurist and medical economist. He has 20+ years as a healthcare futurist and has formal training as a forecaster and scientist. He is Senior Vice President of ACS Healthcare Solutions, a leading provider of outsourcing, information technology, and management consulting services to the healthcare industry. In his numerous publications and presentations, he forecasts the future of health care and describes practical, creative approaches to improving the health care delivery system.

   Dr. Bauer has published more than 135 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 periodicals that cover the business of health care. As a consultant, he assists hospitals and other provider organizations with leadership education, strategic planning and visioning, technology assessment, service line development, and clinical transformation management.

   His latest book is Telemedicine and the Reinvention of Health Care: The Seventh Revolution in Medicine, co-authored with Marc Ringel, M.D. His two previous books are Not What the Doctor Ordered and Statistical Analysis for Health Care Decision-Makers: Understanding and Evaluating Critical Information in a Competitive Market. He is currently writing a book on the future of healthcare information and publishing a series of Web articles on key trends in selected clinical services (e.g., diagnostic imaging, orthopedics, home health, pharmaceuticals, molecular and genetic medicine, cardiology).

   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. He served concurrently as Health Policy Adviser to Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm (1980-1984). He also worked as a visiting clinical professor in the Administrative Medicine Program at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1992-1997), where he taught physician executives how to evaluate research reports and other published studies. 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).

Programs

The Future of Healthcare: Forecasts, Implications and Responses

   Dr. Bauer begins this entertaining presentation with an informative analysis of historical lessons that define the realm of possibilities for healthcare in the U.S. He then explains different methods for looking ahead and forecasts the future of healthcare over the next two to five years based on his ongoing analysis of the key trends -- medical science, technology, demography and epidemiology, reimbursement, and organization of the delivery system. Implications of the key trends and practical responses to them are then presented from the perspective of the audience's special interests. This presentation is continually updated to reflect the latest changes in trends that shape the future.

Revolution in Science and Technology: Foundations of 21^st Century Care

   Meeting day-to-day challenges leaves leaders with little or no time for understanding forces that are reshaping the foundations of modern medicine. This in-depth, research-based review of today's scientific and technological revolutions shows how key clinical specialties (e.g., cardiology, oncology, surgery, critical care) are being transformed by molecular medicine, robotics, telemedicine, computerized clinical decision support systems, multimedia digital patient records, CPOE, BCDA, and other exciting advancements. Dr. Bauer provides a complementary analysis of public policy issues, including costs, quality, access, and ethics. His presentation also explores new service line opportunities created by science and technology

   Jeff also covers consumerism, reimbursement and how changes in population and disease will shift demands for specific service lines.