Healthcare Musings For 11 October 2019

Healthcare Musings For 11 October 2019

11 October 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Where Would You Start?   When I listen to politicians talk, at least the ones running for president, the health care problems they are interested in solving are mostly limited to how we achieve universal access and...
Fifty Years of Care Improvement

Fifty Years of Care Improvement

On October 1, 1969, against substantial opposition from many of the faculty members at Harvard Medical School and others in the Boston medical community, Dr. Robert Ebert succeeded in launching the Harvard Community Health Plan. Forty years later, in 2009, several of...
Healthcare Musings For 4 October 2019

Healthcare Musings For 4 October 2019

4 October 2019 Dear Interested Readers, A Closer Look At Strategy and Culture   I really appreciate getting comments from my readers. Most of the comments do not come through the comment function of the letter. Most “interested readers” who have something to say...
Cosgrove and Shore on Expanding Boundaries and Leading Change 

Cosgrove and Shore on Expanding Boundaries and Leading Change 

  Last Friday’s Healthcare Musings began: At four o’clock on Tuesday afternoon I was sitting at a table in the ballroom of the Boston Seaport Hotel at the 6th ATLAS (Annual Thought Leadership Symposium). This year’s conference title was “Expanding Boundaries....