by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 11, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Administrative Burden, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Medicare For All, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
11 October 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Where Would You Start? When I listen to politicians talk, at least the ones running for president, the health care problems they are interested in solving are mostly limited to how we achieve universal access and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 8, 2019 | Atrius Health, Colleagues, Continuous Improvement, Dean Robert Ebert, Dr. Joe Dorsey, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical, Innovation in Healthcare
On October 1, 1969, against substantial opposition from many of the faculty members at Harvard Medical School and others in the Boston medical community, Dr. Robert Ebert succeeded in launching the Harvard Community Health Plan. Forty years later, in 2009, several of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 1, 2019 | ATLAS conference, David Shore, Dean Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality in Healthcare, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Lean, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, Stein's Law, Toby Cosgrove
Last Friday’s Healthcare Musings began: At four o’clock on Tuesday afternoon I was sitting at a table in the ballroom of the Boston Seaport Hotel at the 6th ATLAS (Annual Thought Leadership Symposium). This year’s conference title was “Expanding Boundaries....
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 24, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Medicare For All, Medicare For All Who Want It, The Triple Aim
When I opened my Sunday paper this week, I was delighted to see two healthcare related articles on the front page. The first article written by Nora Doyle-Burr, a staff writer for the paper, was entitled “Health care a pressing issue in 2020 for many Upper Valley...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 17, 2019 | Continuous Improvement, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Improving the health of the poor, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Mark Twain's wisdom, Opioid Epidemic, Poverty and healthcare, The potential fallibility of statistics, The Triple Aim
Samuel Langhorne Clemons, a.k.a. MarkTwain, is famous for his ability to express a profound truth in a few pithy words. I frequently am reminded of his wisdom when I try to write. He is famous for saying “I apologize for such a long letter – I didn’t have...