by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 29, 2021 | Continuous Improvement, COVID, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Culture, diseases of despair, Emerging from the pandemic, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, healthcare disparities, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Nicholas Kristof, Public Health, Racial Inequality, Social Determinants of Health, The de emphasis of public health, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
October 29, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, What COVID Has Revealed To Us I have seen several articles that attempt to tell us what COVID has revealed to us about the inequities and inadequacies in our system of care. My guess is that you have also...
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 | Jun 4, 2021 | Adaptive Change, burnout and professional fulfillment, capitation, Continuous Improvement, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dr. Robert Pearl, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Healthcare Transformation, physician culture, Physician/Management "Compacts", The Triple Aim, This Is Water by David Foster Wallace, Uncaring:How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors & Patients
June 4, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, , Our Culture Is Everybody’s Problem I am sure that you have heard the expression that “culture eats strategy for lunch.” I can’t recall when I first heard the expression, but there is...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 28, 2021 | ACA, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Economic inequality, Elizabeth Warren, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Healthcare equity, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, The American Families Act, The American Jobs Act, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
May 28, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Hope Needs A Plan: Moving Upstream From Quality, Safety, and the Triple Aim About three paragraphs from the end of the main section of last Friday’s Healthcare Musings I wrote: Since we have not had the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 7, 2021 | Dr. Robert Pearl, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Uncaring:How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors & Patients, Zeev Neuwirth
May 7, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Dr. Pearl Says That The Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients As I was thinking about the subject for this post I was delighted to receive an email notification from my old friend and former colleague...
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...
