Primary Care
Researchers Push Primary Care Teams to 'Power Up', July 2019
We can power up teams with 2 or more clinical assistants per provider. Rather than hiring more physicians, practices can improve productivity of their existing providers. Dr. Peter Anderson pioneered the advanced team care model in his Virginia practice. [Link to article]
Powering Up Primary Care Teams: Advanced Team Care With In-Room Support, July 2019
Primary care teams are under-powered. This model is more satisfying to clinicians, staff, and patients and is financially sustainable. Yet its spread has been hobbled by several misguided beliefs: Physicians can and should do most tasks, technology replaces people, and the principal way to increase net revenue is to reduce overhead. A shift in mindset is needed to energize primary care. [Link to article]
Primary Care - Will It Survive?, August 2006
Over a decade ago, the American College of Physicians warned that “primary care, the backbone of the nation’s healthcare system, is at grave risk of collapse”. Primary care is facing a confluence of factors that could spell disaster: 1) Patients are increasingly dissatisfied with their care and with difficulty of gaining timely access, 2) Many primary care physicians are unhappy with their jobs, as they face a seemingly insurmountable task, and 3) Fewer and fewer US medical students are choosing to enter the field. [Link to article]
Powering Up Primary Care Teams
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