by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 24, 2021 | Dr. Robert Ebert, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Financial challenges of primary care., Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Health and Human Services, Healthcare equity, Life Expectancy, Practice Improvement, Primary Care Challenges, the centrality of Primary Care, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare, Xavier Becerra
September 24, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Thinking About the (Compromised) Future of Primary Care I have always thought of myself as a primary care physician. When I joined the practice at Harvard Community Health Plan as their only cardiologist...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 3, 2021 | Attacks on Roe v. Wade, Atul Gawande, Costa Rica's remarkable healthcare system, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, healthcare disparities, Inequality in Healthcare, maternal and infant mortality, Public Health, Social Determinants of Health, The impact of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, The Triple Aim, We have neglected the importance of public health.
September 3, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Gawande Delivers Again I have my healthcare heroes. Most of them like Robert Pearl, Elisabeth Rosenthal, and Zeke Emanuel, I don’t know personally. I just know and appreciate their articles, editorials,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 20, 2021 | ACA, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dr. Robert Ebert, Economic inequality, Equity, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Medical School, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty, Polarization in America, Public Health, Social Determinants of Health, The American Jobs Act, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
Last Friday’s letter was an attempt to begin to explore the relationships between what we chose to do and how we are compensated. I spent a long time backing into this difficult subject by going all the way back to 1965 and trying to draw some wisdom from my...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 16, 2021 | Adaptive Change, Build Back Better, Continuous Improvement, Dr. Marshall Wolf, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical, Health in America, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality in Healthcare, The Triple Aim, transformational change, Universal Access, Waste in healthcare
April 16, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, How We Get Paid Makes A Difference In What We Do Over the years I have probably used one quote from Dr. Robert Ebert in these notes more than any other idea, quote, or concept from any other source. Even if...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 2, 2021 | Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Financial challenges of primary care., Future of Heathcare, Health in America, Healthcare as a Right, Healthcare Transformation, Improving Ambulatory Practice, Inequality, New England Journal of Medicine, patient centered care, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
The latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine was waiting for me in my mailbox yesterday when I dropped by the post office. I was delighted to see that it was the March 4th edition and I was happy to get it on time. The mail comes very irregularly...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 16, 2021 | “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Dr. Robert Ebert, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Innovation in Healthcare, medical home, Poverty and healthcare, Racial Inequality, Social Determinants of Health, team based care, the centrality of Primary Care, the filibuster, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
If you have avoided these notes for the past few weeks, you may not know that I have been systematically reviewing the recommendations of the Commonwealth Fund’s Task Force On Payment and Delivery System Reform. There are six sections to the report. So far we have...
