by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 7, 2017 | ACA, ACO, Burnout, Costs, Featured Post, Healthcare Transformation, Medicaid Reform, Medicare Reform, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace, Resources, Strategy, The Triple Aim
There is no challenge like the challenge of creating a strategic plan in uncertain times. What do you do when you do not know what to do? That is a question that frequently challenges leaders. Over eight years ago, after Lehman Brothers had failed and the value of the...
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 | Jan 3, 2017 | Costs, Delivery, Featured Post, Healthcare Policy, Lean, Presidential Politics, Quadruple Aim, Repeal and Replace
Are you wondering what you and your practice or hospital should be doing while living in the ambiguity of “repeal and replace?” Focus on getting better. That is the short answer. With or without the ACA the challenge to create Care better than we’ve seen, health...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 13, 2016 | ACA, Costs, Delivery, Featured Post, Population Health Management, Sustainability, The Triple Aim
Since the early nineties nothing has challenged physicians grounded in the traditional culture and practice of medicine more than the introduction of the “radical” concept of population health. One could argue that the Affordable Care Act is the legislative expression...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 22, 2016 | ACA, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Presidential Politics, Repeal and Replace
Where Does The Real Controversy Lie? The Democratic position on healthcare and the philosophy expressed in Paul Ryan’s “A Better Way” and the brief paper that the Trump campaign had on their website agree on more than you might expect. Both sides focus on the...