by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 28, 2020 | Atrius Health, Build Back Better, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Guthrie Clinic, Healthcare in Rural America, Inequality in Healthcare, Polarization in America, Public Health, Skepticism about the COVID-19 Vaccine, telehealth, The 2020 elections, The World After COVID-19
I was on a socially distanced walk with my seventeen year old granddaughter this week, and we were talking about how quickly and unexpectedly life has changed. She and her parents usually come every summer for a quick visit. They fly into Logan Airport on a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 19, 2020 | Atrius Health, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Health in America, Healthcare as a Right, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Resilience, The World After COVID-19
How long has it been since you felt comfortable standing less than six feet from someone who is not a member of your household? As you look forward to Memorial Day this coming weekend or past that to the Fourth of July, or Labor Day, is it possible for you to...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 25, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, ACO, Atrius Health, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, MassHealth, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
25 October 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Pondering What the Future Might Hold My last letter to my colleagues at Atrius Health was published on October 25, 2013. In that letter I reviewed what I thought some of the challenges of the future would...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 15, 2019 | Administrative Waste, Atrius Health, Costs, Don Berwick, Lean, The Triple Aim, Waste in healthcare
This posting is brought to you thanks to a note I received on Sunday from a loyal “Interested Reader.” Hi Gene, I thought of you upon reading this clearly-written article in the NYTimes this morning: I hope all is well and that you are enjoying...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 8, 2019 | Atrius Health, Colleagues, Continuous Improvement, Dean Robert Ebert, Dr. Joe Dorsey, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical, Innovation in Healthcare
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...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 4, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Atrius Health, Continuous Improvement, Costs, Culture, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare finance, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, the difficulties of change, The Quality Chasm, The Triple Aim
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...