by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 19, 2019 | Burnout, Colleagues, Culture, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, The Triple Aim
Every now and then I see an obituary or read an article in a journal that can send me back in time more than forty years in my professional life and up to seventy years in the totality of life. There is a big “scrapbook” in my brain where I log a lot of “screen time.”...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 15, 2019 | Costs, Edison and Ford, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Leadership, Lean
15 February 2019 Dear Interested Readers, A Brief Note From Vacation About Lessons From Edison and Ford We have been traveling around Florida for the past week and a half, and I am on vacation time. I like traveling with a fluid agenda. A flexible...
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 | Feb 5, 2019 | ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs), capitation, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Hill-Burton, Hospital Utilization
The hospital in my little town was one hundred years old this last year. It was launched by three local physicians, Dr. Nathan Griffin, Dr. Charles Lamson and Dr. Anna Littlefield, in collaboration with women in the community. A local woman of some prominence, Jane...