Here’s Why Mental Healthcare Is So Unaffordable & How COVID-19 Might Help Change This

If you ask a patient to describe their experience finding a therapist or psychiatrist in the community, don’t be[...]

Practice Optimization Amidst COVID-19: A Note from Our Patient Partner

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to be felt across the United States, and this includes the ways in which[...]

The Impacts of Racism on the Health of our Nation

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” The[...]

Primary Care Transformation in a COVID-19 World

Access to comprehensive primary care has long been a challenge in the United States, and the economic and social[...]

Primary Care and COVID: Our Role in Flattening the Curve

As it became apparent in early March that COVID would become a global and not only local problem, health systems had to[...]

Moving Upstream: Addressing Social Determinants of Health

The Primary Care Improvement Network (PCIN) is a membership-based network focused on supporting practice[...]

Where does the individual physician fit in the new medicine?

By Steven A. Barrett, MD, FAAFP

I am realizing that practice management in the new medicine is derived more from[...]

P2P+E: Understanding the employer role in an improved patient-to-primary care physician relationship

Creating sustainable, timely care delivery models designed to help patients achieve improved health outcomes is a[...]

The Corporatization of Primary Care: Unintended Consequences

There are many factors in medicine these days that have pushed primary care practice to be mostly a salaried,[...]