by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 19, 2019 | Burnout, Colleagues, Culture, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, The Triple Aim
Every now and then I see an obituary or read an article in a journal that can send me back in time more than forty years in my professional life and up to seventy years in the totality of life. There is a big “scrapbook” in my brain where I log a lot of “screen time.”...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 15, 2019 | Costs, Edison and Ford, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Leadership, Lean
15 February 2019 Dear Interested Readers, A Brief Note From Vacation About Lessons From Edison and Ford We have been traveling around Florida for the past week and a half, and I am on vacation time. I like traveling with a fluid agenda. A flexible...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 12, 2019 | ACA, ACO, Atrius Health, Featured Post, Massachusetts Blue Cross, PPO contracts, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim
I like trains. Perhaps it is because my maternal grandfather worked all of his life for the Seaboard Railroad. Some of my earliest memories are of going down to the train station with him when we would visit the little town in North Carolina where I have had family...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 5, 2019 | ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs), capitation, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Hill-Burton, Hospital Utilization
The hospital in my little town was one hundred years old this last year. It was launched by three local physicians, Dr. Nathan Griffin, Dr. Charles Lamson and Dr. Anna Littlefield, in collaboration with women in the community. A local woman of some prominence, Jane...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 1, 2019 | Activism in Healthcare, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Healthcare in 2019, Improving the health of the poor, Population Health, Poverty, The Triple Aim
1 February 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Poverty in the Midst of Plenty, Stress, and Health When I look back on my professional life I realize that my practice was primarily populated by individuals and families that were mostly from the middle...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 29, 2019 | Dean Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Vanguard Medical, healthcare finance, Innovation in Healthcare, Population Health, The Triple Aim
One thing that I am learning about first hand these days is ageism. I have experienced having young clerks walk right past me as if I was invisible to serve a younger customer who has just appeared. There is a wider gulf between generations than just familiarity with...