by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 23, 2018 | 2018 Midterm Elections, ACA, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Presidential Politics
Last May I lifted the title and the hook from one of Paul Simon’s songs to write “Is the Triple Aim ‘Slip Slidin’ Away?” The recurrent passage or chorus in the song is: Slip slidin’ away Slip slidin’ away You know the nearer your destination The...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 19, 2018 | Future of Heathcare, Innovation, MACRA, Systemness
19 October 2018 Dear Interested Readers, “Systemness” as Nirvana This week I have had the pleasure of attending the 5th Annual ATLAS conference in Boston. ATLAS is an acronym for Annual Thought Leadership on Access Symposium. It is the annual...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 16, 2018 | Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Medical Professionalism, Medical Quality, Population Health, The Quality Chasm, The Triple Aim
This last weekend my wife and I enjoyed the visit of an Interested Reader and his wife. It was a short visit. They arrived late on a rainy Saturday afternoon. They left too early for a walk on Sunday morning. We did have time for a great conversation in front of a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 12, 2018 | ACA, Future of Heathcare, Health in America, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Medicare Reform, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
12 October 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Back to Box 4 In the post earlier this week entitled “You Can’t Get There From Here!” I wrote: The obvious answer to the conundrum of “You can’t get there from here!” is to go to some place from...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 9, 2018 | Activism in Healthcare, Brett Kavanaugh, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Presidential Politics, The Triple Aim
There is a lot of wisdom and a call for strategic thinking behind the wisdom of the old Maine aphorism, “You can’t get there from here.” The phrase has been around a lot longer than the Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan, “Bert and I” comedy routines. The phrase is the...