There Is Always A Better Way!

There Is Always A Better Way!

by | Mar 30, 2021 | Adaptive Change, Atul Gawande, chronic disease management, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Improving Ambulatory Practice, Inequality in Healthcare, Innovation in Healthcare, Polio and The Salk Vaccine, rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, Virtual Shared Medical Appointments

  I am no medical historian, but I dare say that the history of medicine could be described as a “search for a better way.” Sometimes the search is cheered by the people and supported by entrepreneurs and governments desperate for solutions to threatening...
We Need to Treat the Transformation of Primary Care Organization and Finance As An Urgent Need

We Need to Treat the Transformation of Primary Care Organization and Finance As An Urgent Need

by | 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...
Chronic Disease Management and the Challenges of Impending Workforce Shortages

Chronic Disease Management and the Challenges of Impending Workforce Shortages

by | Nov 19, 2019 | CVS Health Hubs, Future of Heathcare, Improving Ambulatory Practice, Innovation in Healthcare, Shared Medical Appointments, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim

  The header for today’s post is a picture of a couple, both in their nineties, who are patiently waiting for a doctor’s appointment. I know a lot about this couple. They are my parents. They were in the vanguard of a growing movement, seniors living into their...
Healthcare Musings For 8 February 2019

Healthcare Musings For 8 February 2019

by | Feb 8, 2019 | Future of Heathcare, Health and Healthcare, Healthcare Transformation, Improving Ambulatory Practice, Medicare For All, Public Option, the difficulties of change, Universal Access

8 February 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Imagine That!   Last Sunday the Associate Minister at my church delivered a wonderfully crafted sermon entitled “Imagine.” She was not asking us to daydream about what might happen that evening in Atlanta as the...