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 | Nov 26, 2021 | "The Doctor" by Sir Luke Fildes, ACA, Continuous Improvement, Equity, Featured Post, Guthrie Clinic, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical, healthcare disparities, Healthcare in Rural America, Inequality in Healthcare, Innovation in Healthcare, Joe Biden, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners, Lean, Politics and Healthcare, Practice Improvement, The Triple Aim
November 26, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Thanksgivings For The Opportunities For Service In Troubled Times I hope that by now you have experienced a resolution of any Thanksgiving Day indigestion or mental distress that might have arisen from temporary...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 20, 2021 | a personal testimony, antiracism, burnout and professional fulfillment, Computers In Healthcare, connectedness, Continuous Improvement, COVID, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Culture, Ezra Klein, Featured Post, Healthcare equity, Lean, RVUs, Skepticism about the COVID-19 Vaccine
August 20, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Introspection, Reflection, and Anticipation. You Think and Feel Better Outdoors It’s been a difficult week for a lot of people. Fires continue to burn over large areas of the West even as we have become...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 5, 2021 | ACO, capitation, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Vanguard Medical, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, medical home, Primary Care, Primary Care Challenges, Social Determinants of Health, team based care, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
March 5, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, More Thoughts About The Importance of Primary Care Now that Donald Trump is off Twitter and mostly out of sight except for occasional appearances at places like CPAC, I find that I have more time to think...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 12, 2020 | A Brief History of the Last One Hundred Years Of Healthcare, Covid-19, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Health in America, Healthcare Quality, Healthcare Transformation, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Pandemic Management, Social Determinants of Health, The World After COVID-19
As we move into an attempt to recover from the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have begun to think about how the delivery of healthcare will be changed by what we have experienced. Some have suggested that the pandemic has revealed serious flaws...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 31, 2020 | Continuous Improvement, coronavirus, Covid-19, David Brooks, David Leonhardt, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, The World After COVID-19, Zeev Neuwirth
I have been trying unsuccessfully to give some attention to something other than the rising number of victims of the coronavirus. I analyze the progression of my intellectual and emotional responses to COVID-19 along a timeline that runs along the same track of...
