by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 17, 2017 | ACA, Costs, Featured Post, Presidential Politics, Quadruple Aim, Repeal and Replace, Strategy, the healthcare debate
Readers of these postings are familiar with my use of the term VUCA, an acronym that is derived from the realization that we live in a world that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. I have asserted before that our state of uncertainty about the future of...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 20, 2016 | Featured Post, Healthcare Transformation, Presidential Politics, Quadruple Aim, Reform, Repeal and Replace, Strategy
Dan Burns, is a former colleague who served on the Harvard Vanguard and Atrius boards with me, my dermatologist, and the person who became CEO of Harvard Vanguard after I retired three years ago. I most recently saw Dan, and we had a brief conversation during a visit...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 20, 2016 | ACA, ACO, Featured Post, Healthcare Transformation, National Health Service, Payment Models, Presidential Politics, Reform, Strategy, The Triple Aim
Back in April when we were not absolutely sure who the nominees for president would be. Michael Cohen wrote “Obamacare: an unheralded success” in the Boston Globe. He commented then that healthcare was not getting much discussion by Republicans beyond a flat out...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 8, 2016 | Costs, Featured Post, Strategy
I was recently invited by Dr. Marc-David Munk, the Vice President, Accountable Care and Senior Medical Director for Medicare Practices at Iora Health to visit the “nest”, the home office of Iora Health. [Iora is a species of beautiful little birds found in India and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 22, 2016 | Featured Post, Strategy
Before Orlando I had not thought about gun violence in the same way I think of other public health hazards. My response to such an outrageous and seemingly avoidable disaster was to advocate that the only appropriate response would be to remove guns from our society...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 15, 2016 | Featured Post, Reform, Strategy
As we peer into the future and ponder what lies ahead for the practice of medicine we can be sure that the answer will vary across the spectrum of practice. To examine the potential changes for every type of practice would require a very extensive effort. If we focus...