by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 9, 2021 | 2022 midterm elections, Critical Race Theory, culture wars, Donald Trump's Reluctance to accept the outcome of the election, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Heather McGhee, Inequality in Healthcare, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Non Zero, Racism in America, Republican reluctance to accept the results of the election., Social Determinants of Health, The "virtual" Democratic Convention, The 1619 Project
July 9, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, What We’re All Losing After this past year and a half, almost everyone in America can name something that they have lost. What is also true is that most of us can name something that we have learned. If you...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 11, 2021 | 2022 midterm elections, ACA, Adaptive Change, anti-racism, Critical Race Theory, culture wars, Dr. Paul Batalden, Featured Post, For The People Act, healthcare disparities, Inequality in Healthcare, John Lewis Voting Rights Act, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, Systemic Racism, The American Families Act, The American Jobs Act
June 11, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, “Every System Is Perfectly Designed To Get The Results It Gets.” Dr. Paul Batalden was one of the thought leaders in the quality and safety movement of the last thirty-plus years who may not be as well known...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 4, 2021 | Authoritarianism, Biden's Transformation, Climate Crisis, Economic inequality, Essential Workers, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, Inequality in Healthcare, political polarization, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Quadruple Aim, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Wicked Problems
I have a confession. For some time I have had the suspicion that the idea of the Triple Aim does not effectively call many of us or our institutions to immediate action. I hear an occasional doctor or administrator talk about the “Quadruple Aim” and that makes...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 23, 2021 | Activism in Healthcare, anti-racism, Biases, Black Lives Matter, Children in poverty, Continuous Improvement, Crossing the Quality Chasm, equal justice, Equity, Featured Post, healthcare disparities, Healthcare Transformation, Poverty and healthcare, Racism in America, The 1619 Project, The Triple Aim
April 23, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, The Challenge: Recognize What We Have Been. Ask What We Are Willing To Become It would be a mistake to think that the only important or even most important issue of the last fourteen months was the COVID-19...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 23, 2021 | “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, Administrative Waste, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Fee for service payment, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
That we have lost 500,000 souls to COVID-19 is hard to process. It really doesn’t help much to hear 500,000 dead Americans from the COVID pandemic is more lives lost than in our summed casualties of World War II, the Korean Conflict, and the War in Vietnam. I...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 19, 2021 | "Caste." Racism, “The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Payment and Delivery System Reform:, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Digitaal Health Access, Don Berwick, Dr.Anthony DiGioia, Eve Shapiro, Featured Post, Inequality in Healthcare, patient centered care, Patient Engagement, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, The Care Experience, The Triple Aim
February 19, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, An Anniversary It’s been exactly thirteen years since I wrote my first Friday letter to my colleagues, the staff of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. I had been the Interim CEO for a little over a week...
