by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 8, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Burnout, Featured Post, Healthcare Quality, Healthcare Transformation, Innovation, patient centered care, Practice Improvement
Recently my 97 year old father was readmitted to his local hospital in North Carolina with another episode of CHF and aspiration pneumonia. He was discharged to the rehab facility at his life care community on a Monday. My sister from Birmingham drove over and spent...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 1, 2018 | Featured Post, Innovation, Innovation in Healthcare, Mergers and Acquisitions, Process Improvement, the power of stories
“Innovation” is frequently offered as the “way out of the woods” for American healthcare. And why not? As Americans we are reminded of the power of innovation to reshape our world many times a day as we tap on our cell phones to find our way through traffic to a place...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 24, 2018 | Health in America, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, The Triple Aim
Over the last year the consideration of the social determinants of health has become my greatest professional interest. This shift in my thinking has not been because I have lost interest in or am less committed to the noble ideals and objectives of the Triple Aim,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 17, 2018 | Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Mindset, Moral Minds, Social Determinants of Health, the healthcare debate
Someday the presidency of Donald Trump will be a subject for historians. Whatever historians say, I am sure that they will begin the story long before we thought of Trump’s bid for the presidency as anything more than a joke. The story will not begin with a review of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 10, 2018 | Featured Post, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, Martin Luther King Jr, Poverty, Poverty and healthcare
Not much has changed in the experience of many since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr In the days before the fiftieth anniversary...