Robert Forster
Healthcare ConsultantRobert Forster, MD
Robert Forster, MD, is healthcare consultant with over 36 years of experience in the American healthcare delivery system. He has served as Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of the Little Clinic, a retail based medical clinic; Chief Medical Officer and lead Vice President of healthcare services for BCBSF; Regional Chief Executive Officer for Blue Shield of California; President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of Sutter Medical Group; and Co-Architect and Founder and Author of "the clinic without walls" (1984) which transitioned into the Sutter Medical Foundation under his leadership. Dr. Forster is board certified in Internal Medicine with certification in Geriatrics and special interest in HIV disease. His interests include macroeconomics of American healthcare and rising healthcare consumerism. (This is me - Update Profile)
| 2007 - present | Healthcare Consultant Robert Forster, MD |
|---|---|
| 2005 - 2007 | Executive Vice President The Little Clinic |
| 2002 - 2005 | CMO and VP Healthcare Services Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Inc |
| 1998 - 2002 | VP, Care, Quality, and Network Management Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Inc |
| 1995 - 1998 | Vice President, Central Regional Chief Executive Blue Shield of California Life & Health Insurance Co |
GLG Study Groups with Robert Forster(?)
| Study Group Name | Members |
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| Generic Drug Economic Experts | 586 |
| Economic Experts on Managed Care | 597 |
| Managed Care Pricing Trends Experts | 190 |
| Managed Care Reimbursement Experts | 36 |
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As a clinician leader for some time, it is overtly obvious that comprehensive genetic testing will be fraught with misinterpretation and will lead to consumer confusion and potentially wrong life behavior. Genetic testing has been available for 2-3 decades on a very limited basis and for specific fetal...
Although administrative and nursing/allied medical staff can and will respond to the Quality challenges, physicians (forgive my stereotyping) must be approached more comprehensively to elicit medical behavioral change based on evidenced based medicine or process improvement. They will slow the...
There are many reasons why the commercialization of human genome "information" will be ABSOLUTE CHAOS AND COST. The three most prominent are the following: 1. Physician education is almost devoid of practical genomic teachings except for Diabetes and lipid disorders. 2. ...
If I may, Mr. Goldstein suggests that education to providers re: cost/benefit or value will drive drug selection. I disagree in that there are may barriers to provider (most physicians) behavior and their selection of drugs. To mention a few are as follows: 1. My anecdotal experience...
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