by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 12, 2019 | ACA, ACO, Atrius Health, Featured Post, Massachusetts Blue Cross, PPO contracts, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim
I like trains. Perhaps it is because my maternal grandfather worked all of his life for the Seaboard Railroad. Some of my earliest memories are of going down to the train station with him when we would visit the little town in North Carolina where I have had family...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 8, 2019 | Future of Heathcare, Health and Healthcare, Healthcare Transformation, Improving Ambulatory Practice, Medicare For All, Public Option, the difficulties of change, Universal Access
8 February 2019 Dear Interested Readers, Imagine That! Last Sunday the Associate Minister at my church delivered a wonderfully crafted sermon entitled “Imagine.” She was not asking us to daydream about what might happen that evening in Atlanta as the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 22, 2019 | Future of Heathcare, Health in America, Healthcare Policy, Population Health, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim
Change is slow, and time flies. It has been twelve years since 2007, and changes that were discussed then are still works in progress now. 2007 was a big year for me. I did not know it, but 2007 would be my last year of full time practice and part time leadership as...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 21, 2018 | healthcare finance, Lean, team based care, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim
21 September 2018 Dear Interested Readers, Overuse, Misuse, and Underuse: Hallmarks of Suboptimal Practice and a Barrier To a Better Future Healthcare will definitely be an important, if not the top issue in the November midterm elections....
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 3, 2018 | Healthcare Transformation, Reform, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim
I envy guitar players. I wish that I was decent plucker of strings. I have been trying to make progress in this area for forty years. Two of my greatest disappointments in life are that I have never become proficient enough with any musical instrument to feel...