Healthcare Musings For January 1, 2021

Healthcare Musings For January 1, 2021

  January 1, 2021  Dear Interested Readers,   A Hearty Welcome to 2021!    We made it! We have turned the page on 2020. Congratulation to us all. If you are reading these words that were written on the morning of New Year’s Day you are entitled to a...
Healthcare Musings For November 27, 2020

Healthcare Musings For November 27, 2020

  November 27, 2020 Dear Interested Readers,   Where Do We Begin The Work?   During this last week I have been listening to Barack Obama read his book, A Promise Land, on my afternoon walks. It has been an incredible experience. I am delighted that the...
Healthcare Musings For 15 November 2019

Healthcare Musings For 15 November 2019

15 November 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   More Thoughts on Professionalism and Primary Care   I enjoyed writing last Tuesday about healthcare in Hawaii and the Hawaiian expression of our nationwide problems in primary care staffing. When I write my...
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...
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....