by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 13, 2018 | Era 3: the moral era, Healthcare Transformation, Improving the health of the poor, Lean, patient centered care, Population Health Management, Process Improvement, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
Zeev Neuwirth, Senior Medical Director of Population Health at Carolinas Healthcare System Medical Group, and an old friend and former colleague, launched a weekly podcast last August entitled, Creating a New Healthcare. I love the recurrent introduction that Zeev...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 6, 2018 | Costs, Delivery, Health in America, healthcare finance, Healthcare Quality, Healthcare Transformation, Lean, patient centered care, Sustainability, The Triple Aim
In last week’s post, I tried to reconstruct the thinking of the Atrius Health management team in early 2008. At that time we were writing a new strategic plan to respond to the uncertain future of healthcare. Over the previous decade publications like To Err is Human...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 23, 2018 | Economic inequality, Featured Post, Health in America, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Poverty, Social Determinants of Health
A small group of people in my community has been meeting recently to examine how we may be more effective in our charitable activities for our community. Our definition of community is not confined to the limits of New London, but is defined more as a region that...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 16, 2018 | ACA, Benefits of the ACA, Entitlements, Health in America, Inequality in Healthcare, The Triple Aim
In a recent “Healthcare Musing’s” Friday letter I tried to describe how I planned to contribute to the journey toward equity and the Triple Aim in 2018. Patty Gabow, an Interest Reader, friend, and the retired CEO of Denver Health wrote back: …I did read...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 2, 2018 | Access, Benefits of the ACA, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Costs, Health in America, Inequality in Healthcare, Payment Models, Single payer, The Triple Aim
Looking back over 2017 I am moved to say, “You can’t make this stuff up!” That expression is a meme/cliche that entered our culture sometime since the advent of Facebook. It has been used more and more during the evolving chaos of the first year of the Trump...