by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 26, 2018 | 2018 Midterm Elections, ACA, ACO, Costs, Future of Heathcare, Lean, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
26 October 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Doing an “A4” on Payment and Delivery System Reform If the term “A4” is a fuzzy concept for you, or is not in your vocabulary, let me refer you back to the Healthcare Musings post for October 12 where you...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 19, 2018 | Future of Heathcare, Innovation, MACRA, Systemness
19 October 2018 Dear Interested Readers, “Systemness” as Nirvana This week I have had the pleasure of attending the 5th Annual ATLAS conference in Boston. ATLAS is an acronym for Annual Thought Leadership on Access Symposium. It is the annual...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 17, 2018 | Future of Heathcare, healthcare finance, Lean, Practice Improvement, The Triple Aim
17 August 2018 Dear Interested Readers, The Future Will Be What We Make It Francis Fukuyama, an American philosopher, wrote The End of History and the Last Man in 1992. In his book he argued that there would be no more social evolution beyond liberal democracy and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 14, 2018 | Augmented Intelligence, Future of Heathcare, Healthcare Quality, Innovation, Process Improvement
Whether you call it artificial intelligence, AI, or augmented intelligence, I think that the day when some IT product with “machine learning” becomes your most significant practice partner is probably not that far away. You may counter by saying that you have heard...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 26, 2018 | ACA, Amazon and Jeff Bezos, Atul Gawande, Healthcare Transformation, Innovation in Healthcare, Jamie Dimon and JP Morgan Chase, Population Health Management, Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway
My wife called while I was out walking to let me know that she had just heard that Atul Gawande had been named as CEO for the new healthcare organization that is proposed as a joint venture between Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase. I was surprised at...