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Nan Andrews Amish, "The Big Woman with the Big Picture Perspective" is a multidisciplinary futurist with strong expertise in healthcare trends. Nan and her firm Big Picture Healthcare support healthcare executives by developing profitable strategies given current industry trends, customer needs and wants. Nan works side by side with executives in industries other than healthcare to help them develop cost-effective benefit strategies which increase employee health and productivity, AND improve talent recruitment and retention. Her priority is her clients' bottom line, which she increases by integrating powerful clinical and business strategies with operational excellence and human performance dimensions.

In an industry where every single stakeholder is dissatisfied, the only thing preventing total chaos is focus and vision. Big Picture Healthcare helps its clients take unconventional steps which satisfy market and stakeholder requirements, in spite of status quo wisdom to the contrary.

Typical programs to decrease benefit costs often include MORE benefits, instead of fewer ones. This counter-intuitive strategy is a winner with top employees and their families and recruiting talent alike, since it provides more choice and control over their health, which studies reveal is important. The cost advantage lies in the use of Asian and European (alternative) best-in-class approaches to chronic disease, which Western Medicine is unfortunately not particularly skilled at. The cost savings can be as high as 20% of total health expenditures. This often adds 1-2% to a company's bottom line.

Healthcare strategies may include contrarian positions, built more on demographics than on current government reimbursement rates. Again, these strategies are appreciated by care providers and patients, initially, and gain acceptance by accountants and plans when the numbers come in favorably.

A facilitative management consultant and business coach, Nan's roots are in market research, market strategy, and finance with significant time spent in the corporate training arena. Previously having held management positions with Ernst & Young Management Consulting and Digital Equipment Corporation, Nan is savvy about use of technology to achieve corporate objectives.

A veteran speaker, she facilitates 50 leadership workshops and board retreats a year. Nan also teaches Market Research, Healthcare Marketing and Healthcare Economics at the University of San Francisco. With an MBA from the University of Michigan, Nan knows not just corporations, but associations as well. Nan is on the Board of Directors of National Speakers Association/Northern California Chapter and was their 2002 Member of the Year. Nan is also Past President of a 1000-member Chapter of the American Marketing Association.

Nan gave a presentation on the Future of Health Care at the World Future Society in July 2003. One of her recent health care publications is Healthcare Leadership: Stepping Up To The Plate, appearing in the April 2003 edition of Financial Management Association's Executive Newsletter.

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Last updated November 27, 2006