by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 20, 2016 | Costs, Featured Post, Lean, Long Term Service and Support, Population Health Management, Process Improvement, Reform, The Triple Aim
I have been looking forward to 2016 and asking myself where healthcare should focus in the year ahead. In this connection, Don Berwick’s speech at the 27th Annual IHI Forum had a profound effect on me. You can watch it on YouTube. I appreciated his insightful and...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jan 7, 2016 | Accountability, Costs, Featured Post, Leadership, Strategy, The Triple Aim
During the week after I had given a very positive review of the 27th IHI Forum in my weekly “Healthcare Musings” I received an email comment from one of the regular readers who wrote to me saying that he admired my optimism, but he just did not feel it. The comment...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Aug 5, 2015 | Featured Post, News, Payment Models
Medicare and Medicaid are now fifty years old. I suspect they are the two programs that much of the healthcare establishment still loves to hate the most. Lyndon Johnson’s signing on July 30, 1965 of the Social Security Amendments of 1965, created two landmark...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 26, 2015 | Featured Post, News, Payment Models, Reform, The Triple Aim
Thanks to the Supreme Court, healthcare reform has cleared another hurdle. At 10:21 AM yesterday, as I was writing this week’s letter a banner appeared on my screen: NPR:Breaking News–Supreme Court Rules Obamacare Subsidies Are Legal Just seven words but...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Apr 21, 2015 | Featured Post, Leadership, News, Payment Models, Reform
Last month we passed a big milestone: the fifth anniversary of the ACA (Affordable Care Act). Barack Obama used 22 pens on March 23, 2010 to sign the most important piece of social legislation so far in this young century. If you have about seven minutes, you can hear...