by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 14, 2017 | Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Improving the health of the poor, Population Health Management, the healthcare debate, The Triple Aim
In the January 29th New England Journal of Medicine Foller, et. al. published an interesting article, “Population Health–A Bipartisan Agenda for the Incoming Administration from State Leaders.” The first paragraph said a lot. The common goal of health...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 7, 2017 | ACA, ACO, Burnout, Costs, Featured Post, Healthcare Transformation, Medicaid Reform, Medicare Reform, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, Resources, Strategy, The Triple Aim
There is no challenge like the challenge of creating a strategic plan in uncertain times. What do you do when you do not know what to do? That is a question that frequently challenges leaders. Over eight years ago, after Lehman Brothers had failed and the value of the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 31, 2017 | Featured Post
One of the most remarkable events of the first week of the Trump presidency was his interview with David Muir from ABC. Muir asked questions that allowed the President to reveal both his focus on the trivial and his lack of understanding of the subtleties of the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 24, 2017 | ACA, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Repeal and Replace, the healthcare debate
A few weeks ago those of us who had experienced a few moments of unfounded hope based on positive comments that President Trump had made about the ACA had our hopes dashed when he announced that Representative Dr. Tom Price of the 6th Congressional District of Georgia...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 17, 2017 | ACA, Costs, Featured Post, Presidential Politics, Quadruple Aim, Repeal and Replace, Strategy, the healthcare debate
Readers of these postings are familiar with my use of the term VUCA, an acronym that is derived from the realization that we live in a world that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. I have asserted before that our state of uncertainty about the future of...