by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 25, 2022 | A story from my life, Cardinal Cushing, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dr. Joe Dorsey, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Healthcare equity, improving the delivery of care, Richard Rohr, Social Determinants of Health, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life
November 25, 202 Dear Interested Readers, In Memoriam J.L.D. Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill! Alfred Lord Tennyson worked for seventeen years to produce his very famous poem “In Memorium A.H.H.” which...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Nov 4, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, ACA, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Democratic control of the House, election denial, Featured Post, Global Warming, Health in America, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Illiberalism, Inequality, Inflation, Politics and Healthcare, Poverty, Social Determinants of Health, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
November 4, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, The Election Next Tuesday Will Impact The Future of Our Democracy and Our Collective Health. No Matter the Outcome, What Will Follow Is Up To Us. Next Tuesday is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 16, 2022 | 2022 midterm elections, ACOs, Burnout, Dartmouth Health, Dean Robert Ebert, Equity, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Global Warming, Harvard Community Health Plan, Healthcare equity, improving the delivery of care, Innovation in Healthcare, Medicare For All, Primary Care Challenges, Primary Day in New Hampshire, rural healthcare, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
September 16, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Rethinking How We Deliver Care In last week’s letter, I tried to describe the disappointments and controversies currently associated with ACOs. Like a serialized Netflix presentation I want to begin by...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 9, 2022 | A story from my life, ACO, Continuous Improvement, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Healthcare equity, healthcare finance, Inequality in Healthcare, Lean, Medicare For All, Pioneer ACO, Queen Elizabeth, REACH ACO, System Consolidation, The Triple Aim, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement
September 9, 2022 Dear Interested Readers, Musing About ACO Disappointments This week I have been thinking, or more accurately “musing,” about the current status of ACOs. “Musing” seems to me to be a word that has more depth and feeling than “thinking”,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 29, 2022 | A story from my life, Activism in Healthcare, Actor-Network, Climate Crisis, Conservative Values, Continuous Improvement, David Brooks, Don Berwick, Economic inequality, Equity, Featured Post, Global Warming, Social Determinants of Health, the power of stories, The Triple Aim
July 29, 2022 Dear Interested Reader, Do We Have The Will and Mindset To Improve Our World? My Dad was a theologian who became a minister to earn a living. His sermons were built on his conservative theology and were full of stories. In his sermons, he...