by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 12, 2024 | 2024 elections, A personal history, ACA, Atrius Health, Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Continuous Improvement, Costs, Dartmouth Health, eclipse of the sun, Featured Post, Inequality in Healthcare, Path of Totality, Politics and Healthcare, Public Option, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
April 12, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, I Don’t Understand Why Healthcare Isn’t A Top Political Issue My adventures in healthcare continued this week with my much-anticipated first post-op appointment with my surgeon at Dartmouth which was three weeks...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 23, 2024 | A personal history, ACA, ACOs, Atrius Health, capitation, CMMI, Dartmouth Health, Don Berwick, Dr. Glenn Steele, Dr. Rick Gilfillan, Emily Brower, Featured Post, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Health Care Transformation Task Force, Innovation in Healthcare, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Medical-Moral Sensibilities, Pioneer ACO, Social Determinants of Health, Steve Allenby, Trinity Health
February 23, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Old Connections For Current Progress When I look back on the almost six years that I was leading Harvard Vanguard and Atrius Health it is probably impossible for me to give each activity and each contributor...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 16, 2024 | A personal history, A story from my life, ACA, Beth Israel Deconess Medcal Center, Boston Medical Center, Brigham and Women's, Burnout, Featured Post, FQHCs, Guthrie Clinic, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Hill-Burton, immigration/ illegal immigrants, LEAD, Lean, Medical-Moral Sensibilities, Moral Injury, Partners Health Care, Paul Levy, Safety Net Institutions, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim
February 16, 2024 Dear Interested Readers Medical Ethics, Access, and Personal Experience There are huge variations in care in America’s healthcare system. One has a different experience in quality, cost, and access, depending on your location and your...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 2, 2024 | 2024 elections, A personal history, ACA, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dr. Steven Schroeder, Featured Post, Global Warming, Groundhog Day/film, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Lean, Politics and Healthcare, Proposal for a new Federal Healthcare Board, Simpler, Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund, The Triple Aim, Tom Daschle, Wicked Problems, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
February 2, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Is Healthcare Trapped In Its Own Groundhog Day Cycle? My local newspaper has become a fertile field of thought and ideas for me. Last Monday, The Valley News, my local paper, had a front-page article that...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 29, 2023 | 2024 elections, ACA, democracy versus illiberalism, Drugs/ Fentanyl, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Global Warming, Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem, Homelessness and Health, immigration/ illegal immigrants, infrastructure inadequacies, Martin Luther King Jr, Reproductive Rights, the economy and inflation, wars and rumors of wars, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
December 29, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Been A Tough Year I am not sorry that we have only two more days in 2023. I always see a little hope in new beginnings. 2024 has the potential to be an outstanding year, but there is an almost equal...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 15, 2023 | A personal history, ACA, Atrius Health, Carol Emmott, Charlie Baker, Clay Christensen, Continuous Improvement, Creative Destruction, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Disruptive Innovation, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Joseph Schumpeter, Ken Paulus, Moral Injury, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim, utopias
December 15, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, Utopian Ideas Versus The Status Quo In Healthcare Less than twenty miles north up Interstate 89 from my home is the Enfield Shaker Museum. I have visited the enclave by Lake Mascoma with its magnificent main...
