With 40 years of experience as a medical school professor and consultant to leading providers of health services, Dr. Jeff Bauer (biographical sketch) is an established expert on key trends that shape the future of the industry.

As an internationally recognized industry thought leader, he has published over 200 publications that prepare health care leaders to approach the future proactively and strategically.

Jeff Bauer gives dozens of speeches every year and consistently receives superb evaluations for insightful, thought-provoking presentations that provide attendees with a wealth of helpful "take home" information.

Dr. Bauer, an internationally recognized health futurist and medical economist, is Vice President, Forecasting and Strategy, for Affiliated Computer Services(ACS), a Xerox Company. As a thought leader for Healthcare Finance Insurance Solutions division of ACS, he forecasts the evolution of health care and develops practical, creative approaches to improving the medical sector of the American economy.

Dr. Bauer has published more than 200 articles, books, Web pages, and videos on health care delivery. He speaks frequently to national and international audiences about key trends in health care, medical science, technology, information systems, reimbursement, public policy, health reform, and creative problem-solving. Dr. Bauer is quoted often in the national press and writes regularly for professional journals that cover the business of health care.  

Author

His latest books are Paradox and Imperatives in Health Care: How Efficiency, Effectiveness, and E-Transformation Can Conquer Waste and Optimize Quality (Productivity Press, 2008) and Statistical Analysis for Health Care Decision-Makers (CRC Press, 2009). His two previous books are Telemedicine and the Reinvention of Health Care: The Seventh Revolution in Medicine (McGraw-Hill, 1999) and Not What the Doctor Ordered (McGraw-Hill, 1998).

Consultant

With a background of 20 years in consulting, he assists provider, purchaser, and payer organizations with strategic planning and performance improvement. Examples of his ACS work include facilitating an expert task force on the future of selected specialties for one of the nation's largest medical associations, managing technology assessment for a 28-hospital health system, analyzing clinical service lines for research and manufacturing organizations, and developing strategic plans for health systems and professional associations. His previous consulting firm, The Bauer Group, specialized in consumer-focused strategic planning and development of clinical affiliation agreements for multi-hospital networks.

Professional Experience

In addition, Dr. Bauer has 17 years of professional academic experience. He was a full-time teacher and administrator at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, where he held appointments as an associate professor and as Assistant Chancellor for Planning and Program Development. He served concurrently for four years as Health Policy Adviser to Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm. Dr. Bauer then worked as a visiting professor in the Administrative Medicine Program at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught physician leaders how to evaluate research reports and other published studies. Dr. Bauer was also a Senior Fellow at the Center for the New West in Denver.

Education