by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 27, 2015 | Healthcare Musings Archive
27 February 2015 Dear Interested Readers This Week’s Letter The letter has only one theme despite the appearance of three sections. If I review everything I have written over the previous seven years (this is the first letter of the eighth year) it all...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 26, 2015 | Featured Post, Payment Models, Purchasing, Reform
Healthcare payment models are changing. Since the passage four years ago of the Affordable Health Care act, even the total optimists have become somewhat frustrated with the ups and downs of implementation, and many progressives continue to call for even greater...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 20, 2015 | Healthcare Musings Archive
20 February 2015 Dear Interested Readers Inside this Weeks Newsletter The letter gets a new name this week: “Healthcare Musings” and may look a little different but inside things are still produced by the same “standard work”. My thinking about healthcare this...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 17, 2015 | Delivery, Featured Post, Process Improvement, Strategy
Perhaps healthcare’s future is the place where we fix the past. I got to thinking about the role of the past in understanding the present and the future earlier this last week after listening to a segment of “This American Life.” If you are interested you can...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 10, 2015 | Delivery, Featured Post, Leadership, Lean, Payment Models, Process Improvement, Strategy
I spend a lot of time dreaming about what a wonderful thing it would be if more and more healthcare could “become Lean”. The wisdom of Lean as a philosophy, an operating system and a corporate culture or “corporate way of being” appeals to me because of its universal...