by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 12, 2016 | Accountability, Costs, Data, Delivery, Featured Post, Lean, Payment Models, Population Health Management, Reform
The core ideas of what the IHI calls the Triple Aim were articulated by Robert Ebert, Dean of Harvard Medical School in 1965. Our understanding of the Triple Aim was accelerated by two important books, To Err is Human (1999) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001),...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 11, 2015 | Accountability, Costs, Data, Featured Post, Leadership
When you live in a small town that is at least a half hour away from “big box stores” and other commercial outlets you begin to develop some shopping efficiencies. Recently, before driving the one hundred miles south to Boston for me to attend a meeting, my wife and I...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 21, 2015 | Accountability, Data, Delivery, Featured Post, News
Recently the Boston Globe published the much-anticipated results of the independent actuarial accounting of the results of the first two years of the Pioneer ACOs program of CMMI.(Click here to read the whole article.) I find it impossible to read this without wanting...