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, adequate health care through multi-stakeholder partnerships and other initiatives focused in the private sector.
Dr. Bauer has more than 300 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 (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.
Books
Not What The Doctor Ordered: How to End the Medical Monopoly in Pursuit of Managed Care
Statistical Analysis for Decision Makers in Healthcare: Understanding & Evaluating Critical Information in Changing Times
Upgrading Leadership's Crystal Ball: Five Reasons Why Forecasting Must Replace Predicting & How to Make the Strategic Change in Business and Public Policy
Paradox & Imperatives in Healthcare: Redirecting Reform for Efficiency & Effectiveness
Paradox & Imperatives in Healthcare: How Efficiency, Effectiveness & E-Transformation Can Conquer Waste & Optimize Quality
Telemedicine & The Reinvention of Healthcare
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