by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 25, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, ACA, Community Health Workers., Crossing the Quality Chasm, Emerging from the pandemic, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Healthcare equity, Improving the health of the poor, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, Putin's Invasion of Ukraine, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, The Supreme Court and Healthcare, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement
March 25, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, To Live in Challenging Times My goal for this week’s letter was to shift back to writing more directly about healthcare. Despite my plans, I found it hard to completely ignore the Senate hearings on the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 18, 2022 | A story from my life, ACA, Atrius Health, compensation, Continuous Improvement, COVID, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Lean, Martin Luther King Jr, Massachusetts Health Policy Commision, Polarization in America, Process Improvement, team based care, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim, transformational change, Value Based Reimbursement
February 18, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Musings on an Anniversary I published my first “Friday letter” on February 22, 2008. It was the last day of my first week on the job as the Interim CEO of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates and Atrius...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 11, 2022 | Biases, connectedness, COVID stress on hospital resources, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Culture, Don't Look Up, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Health in America, healthcare disparities, healthcare finance, Healthcare Transformation, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Interdependence, Majority-Minority, Massachusetts Health Policy Commision, Polarization in America, Politics and Healthcare, Richard Rohr, Social Determinants of Health, Stein's Law, The Triple Aim, Thomas Edsall
February 11, 2022 Dear Concerned Readers, “When You’re Accustomed To Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression.” I was surprised by the response that I got last week from two loyal readers. As I have re-read the exchanges between them and me, it occurred...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Oct 29, 2021 | Continuous Improvement, COVID, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Culture, diseases of despair, Emerging from the pandemic, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, healthcare disparities, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Joe Biden's aggressive agenda, Nicholas Kristof, Public Health, Racial Inequality, Social Determinants of Health, The de emphasis of public health, The Triple Aim, Universal Access
October 29, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, What COVID Has Revealed To Us I have seen several articles that attempt to tell us what COVID has revealed to us about the inequities and inadequacies in our system of care. My guess is that you have also...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 24, 2021 | Dr. Robert Ebert, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Financial challenges of primary care., Future of Heathcare, Harvard Community Health Plan, Health and Human Services, Healthcare equity, Life Expectancy, Practice Improvement, Primary Care Challenges, the centrality of Primary Care, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare, Xavier Becerra
September 24, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Thinking About the (Compromised) Future of Primary Care I have always thought of myself as a primary care physician. When I joined the practice at Harvard Community Health Plan as their only cardiologist...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 4, 2021 | Adaptive Change, burnout and professional fulfillment, capitation, Continuous Improvement, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dr. Robert Pearl, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Healthcare Transformation, physician culture, Physician/Management "Compacts", The Triple Aim, This Is Water by David Foster Wallace, Uncaring:How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors & Patients
June 4, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, , Our Culture Is Everybody’s Problem I am sure that you have heard the expression that “culture eats strategy for lunch.” I can’t recall when I first heard the expression, but there is...
