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 | Apr 9, 2021 | ACA, Activism in Healthcare, Biden's Transformation, Equity, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Gun Violence, healthcare disparities, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality, Mass shootings as an epidemic, Politics and Healthcare, Six Domains of Quality, transformational change
April 9, 22021 Dear Interested Readers, Preparing For Transformation I have been feeling disoriented since the Biden/ Harris inauguration. For four years I had felt vulnerable to the mismanagement and outright inhumanity of a narcissistic wannabe...
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 | Dec 11, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Build Back Better, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden and the Future, Medicare For All, rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, Universal Access, Waste in healthcare, Xavier Becerra
December 11, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Trying To Survive The Moment While Waiting For The Slow Evolution of Positive Change It has been a gruesome week in Lake Wobegon and across the land. It turns out that even in Lake Wobegon strange and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 12, 2020 | A Brief History of the Last One Hundred Years Of Healthcare, Covid-19, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Health in America, Healthcare Quality, Healthcare Transformation, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Pandemic Management, Social Determinants of Health, The World After COVID-19
As we move into an attempt to recover from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have begun to think about how the delivery of healthcare will be changed by what we have experienced. Some have suggested that the pandemic has revealed serious flaws...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 31, 2019 | ACA, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Global Warming, Healthcare challenges for the "Twenties', healthcare finance, Healthcare Transformation, Value Based Reimbursement, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
I am so glad that it is going to be the 20s tomorrow. Bye-bye to a so-so decade. This New Year should be very interesting. There should be events that occur this year that will have a long term significance in our collective experience. I always embrace the New...
