by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 23, 2024 | A personal history, ACA, ACOs, Atrius Health, capitation, CMMI, Dartmouth Health, Don Berwick, Dr. Glenn Steele, Dr. Rick Gilfillan, Emily Brower, Featured Post, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Health Care Transformation Task Force, Innovation in Healthcare, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Medical-Moral Sensibilities, Pioneer ACO, Social Determinants of Health, Steve Allenby, Trinity Health
February 23, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Old Connections For Current Progress When I look back on the almost six years that I was leading Harvard Vanguard and Atrius Health it is probably impossible for me to give each activity and each contributor...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 16, 2024 | A personal history, A story from my life, ACA, Beth Israel Deconess Medcal Center, Boston Medical Center, Brigham and Women's, Burnout, Featured Post, FQHCs, Guthrie Clinic, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Hill-Burton, immigration/ illegal immigrants, LEAD, Lean, Medical-Moral Sensibilities, Moral Injury, Partners Health Care, Paul Levy, Safety Net Institutions, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
February 16, 2024 Dear Interested Readers Medical Ethics, Access, and Personal Experience There are huge variations in care in America’s healthcare system. One has a different experience in quality, cost, and access, depending on your location and your...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 9, 2024 | A personal history, Brigham and Women's, chronic disease management, Dr. H. Richard Nesson, Featured Post, Implicit Bias, Inequality in Healthcare, Mass General Brigham, Medical-Moral Sensibilities, Primary Care, Social Determinants of Health
February 9, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Reflections on Our History of Bias in Medicine and Experience Managing Chronic Diseases Hospital I want to bring your attention to two recent articles in The New England Journal of Medicine. The first...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 2, 2024 | 2024 elections, A personal history, ACA, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dr. Steven Schroeder, Featured Post, Global Warming, Groundhog Day/film, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Lean, Politics and Healthcare, Proposal for a new Federal Healthcare Board, Simpler, Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund, The Triple Aim, Tom Daschle, Wicked Problems, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
February 2, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Is Healthcare Trapped In Its Own Groundhog Day Cycle? My local newspaper has become a fertile field of thought and ideas for me. Last Monday, The Valley News, my local paper, had a front-page article that...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 26, 2024 | 2024 elections, A personal history, Atrius Health, diseases of despair, Dr. Gary Kaplan, Dr. John Toussaint, Dr. Joseph Betancourt, Dr. Patty Gabow, Global Warming, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, LEAD, Lean, microsystems, New Hampshire Presidential Primary, Nicholas Kristof, Simpler, Six Sigma, Strategy, The Commonwealth Fund, The LEAD project of Blue Cross, The Triple Aim, TQM, Zeev Neuwirth
January 26, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Some Recent Articles of Interest Finally, the New Hampshire Presidential Primary is over. I am relieved. Perhaps through the rest of the winter, as well as spring and summer, we will be free from the robocalls...
