by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 25, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, ACA, Community Health Workers., Crossing the Quality Chasm, Emerging from the pandemic, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Healthcare equity, Improving the health of the poor, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
March 25, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, To Live in Challenging Times My goal for this week’s letter was to shift back to writing more directly about healthcare. Despite my plans, I found it hard to completely ignore the Senate hearings on the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 18, 2022 | autocrats, COVID, Dana Milbank, Donald Trump's admiration of Putin, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Governor Ron DeSantis, Health in America, Healthcare Transformation, Illiberalism, Inequality, Marina Ovsyannikova, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
March 18, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Trying To Make Some Sense Of A Continuing Senseless Tragedy There was a brief moment in time almost sixty years ago when I considered changing my college major from chemistry/pre-med to English. I was completely...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 18, 2022 | A story from my life, ACA, Atrius Health, compensation, Continuous Improvement, COVID, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Lean, Martin Luther King Jr, Massachusetts Health Policy Commision, Polarization in America, Process Improvement, team based care, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim, transformational change, Value Based Reimbursement
February 18, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Musings on an Anniversary I published my first “Friday letter” on February 22, 2008. It was the last day of my first week on the job as the Interim CEO of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates and Atrius...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 11, 2022 | Biases, connectedness, COVID stress on hospital resources, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Culture, Don't Look Up, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Health in America, healthcare disparities, healthcare finance, Healthcare Transformation, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Interdependence, Majority-Minority, Massachusetts Health Policy Commision, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Richard Rohr, Social Determinants of Health, Stein's Law, The Triple Aim, Thomas Edsall
February 11, 2022 Dear Concerned Readers, “When You’re Accustomed To Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression.” I was surprised by the response that I got last week from two loyal readers. As I have re-read the exchanges between them and me, it occurred...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 7, 2022 | ACA, Build Back Better, COVID, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Ex-President Trump, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare equity, In the Bleak Midwinter, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Omicron variant, Politics and Healthcare, Republican efforts to limit voting rights, The 2020 election, The Attack on the Capitol, The Triple Aim
January 7, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Thoughts on COVID, January 6th, And The Future of Healthcare In the Bleak Midwinter If you remember my multiple previous comments about “In the Bleak Midwinter,” a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 31, 2021 | 2022 midterm elections, Build Back Better, COVID, COVID uncertainty, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Inequality in Healthcare, Life Expectancy, Omicron variant, Pandemic Management, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Progressive Values, Senator Joe Manchin, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, The importance of testing in pandemic management, Vaccine hesitancy, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
December 31, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Reflections On 2021, A Very Unusual And Unpleasant Year, And Hopes For A Better 2022. If you are reading this letter, you have survived a tough year. Well, maybe, there are a few hours before that is certain. On...
