by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 10, 2017 | ACO, Costs, Delivery, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Medicaid Reform, Quadruple Aim, Repeal and Replace, The Triple Aim
I am proud to be a member of Whittier Street Health Centers Foundation Board and was delighted when our very able CEO, Frederica Williams, recently asked me to talk to the organization about ACOs at their Grand Rounds. Whittier Street is an exceptional example of a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 3, 2017 | Costs, Delivery, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Lean, Presidential Politics, Quadruple Aim, Repeal and Replace
Are you wondering what you and your practice or hospital should be doing while living in the ambiguity of “repeal and replace?” Focus on getting better. That is the short answer. With or without the ACA the challenge to create Care better than we’ve seen, health...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 20, 2016 | Featured Post, Healthcare Transformation, Presidential Politics, Quadruple Aim, Reform, Repeal and Replace, Strategy
Dan Burns, is a former colleague who served on the Harvard Vanguard and Atrius boards with me, my dermatologist, and the person who became CEO of Harvard Vanguard after I retired three years ago. I most recently saw Dan, and we had a brief conversation during a visit...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 6, 2016 | ACA, Featured Post, Medicaid Reform, Medicare Reform, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, the healthcare debate, The Triple Aim
As the President Elect announced his choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services and for the Administrator of CMS, I could not help but think back to the several times when as CEO of Atrius Health I had gone to the offices of HHS at 200 Independence Avenue SW,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 29, 2016 | Featured Post, Lean, Reform, Repeal and Replace
President Elect Trump has said what he will do with the ACA. What will you do if he carries through with his intent? I can’t answer that question for you, but I am delighted to give you unsolicited advice. I was recently reminded of how important it is to remind...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 22, 2016 | ACA, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace
Where Does The Real Controversy Lie? The Democratic position on healthcare and the philosophy expressed in Paul Ryan’s “A Better Way” and the brief paper that the Trump campaign had on their website agree on more than you might expect. Both sides focus on the...