by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 30, 2015 | Healthcare Musings Archive
30 October 2015 Dear Interested Readers, What’s Inside This Week’s Letter? The honest answer to that question is some stream of consciousness thinking and a rambling discussion of some pretty wonky stuff. I have tried to introduce some interesting angles to provide...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 28, 2015 | Reference Materials
By Dr. Gene Lindsey Members of the Massachusetts Society and Guests, Throughout a career of more than forty years I have had the mindset of a guild craftsman as I have worked in the office, in the emergency room, and at the bedside in the hospital. That is the case...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 27, 2015 | Featured Post, Leadership, Reform, The Triple Aim
Last week in these notes I commended Maura Healey, the Massachusetts Attorney General. I had contrasted her presentation at the annual Cost Trends Hearings with the presentation of the “conservative” Governor Charlie Baker. In my view the Governor is “conservative” in...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 15, 2015 | Accountability, Costs, Featured Post, Payment Models, Population Health Management, Reform, The Triple Aim
As a member of the Advisory Council to the Health Policy Commission in Massachusetts, I was very interested in following the internet broadcast of the annual HPC Cost Trends Hearings early in October. At the core of the presentations was a debate about healthcare...