by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 15, 2024 | A personal history, Alternative Quality Contract, Atrius Health, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Chapter 224, Charles Kenney, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Featured Post, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, LEAD, Mike Dukakis, Moral Injury, Opioid Epidemic, Pioneer ACO, Six Domains of Quality, The Best Practice: How The New Quality Movement Is Transforming Medicine, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement, Waste in healthcare
March 15, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Income From Quality In the early years of this century after the near failure of Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, there were very active conversations in Massachusetts about the cost, quality, and access to healthcare...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 8, 2024 | A personal history, Alternative Quality Contract, Atrius Health, Burnout, Dartmouth Health, Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum, Eyal Press, Featured Post, Global Warming, Joy in Practice, Medical-Moral Sensibilities, Moral Injury, patient centered care, professional fulfillment, Social Determinants of Health, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
March 8, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, A Better Understanding of Moral Injury My long journey this year exploring the origins of my medical-moral sensibilities was inspired by an article that first appeared in the Sunday New York Times Magazine last June...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 1, 2024 | A personal history, ACOs, Atrius Health, Beth Israel Deconess Medcal Center, Brigham and Women's, CMMI, Co-opetition, Competition, Continuous Improvement, Dartmouth Health, Dr. Anita Ung, Dr. Joe Kimura, Dr. Kate Koplan, Dr. Rick Lopez, Dr. Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Harvard Community Health Plan, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Innovation in Healthcare, Medical-Moral Sensibilities, Pioneer ACO, Quality, The Care Experience, The Triple Aim, Value Based Reimbursement, Waste in healthcare
March 1, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Quality Defined Us I have gained a new perspective on how to structure what remains of the story of the development of my medical-moral sensibilities. The story up till now has been mostly delivered in chronological...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Feb 2, 2024 | 2024 elections, A personal history, ACA, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dr. Steven Schroeder, Featured Post, Global Warming, Groundhog Day/film, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, healthcare disparities, Healthcare equity, Lean, Politics and Healthcare, Proposal for a new Federal Healthcare Board, Simpler, Social Determinants of Health, The Commonwealth Fund, The Triple Aim, Tom Daschle, Wicked Problems, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
February 2, 2024 Dear Interested Readers, Is Healthcare Trapped In Its Own Groundhog Day Cycle? My local newspaper has become a fertile field of thought and ideas for me. Last Monday, The Valley News, my local paper, had a front-page article that...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 29, 2023 | 2024 elections, ACA, democracy versus illiberalism, Drugs/ Fentanyl, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Global Warming, Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem, Homelessness and Health, immigration/ illegal immigrants, infrastructure inadequacies, Martin Luther King Jr, Reproductive Rights, the economy and inflation, wars and rumors of wars, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare
December 29, 2023 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Been A Tough Year I am not sorry that we have only two more days in 2023. I always see a little hope in new beginnings. 2024 has the potential to be an outstanding year, but there is an almost equal...
