Primary Care Goes Virtual & On-Demand

There has been lots of coverage about “importing” specialist services to primary care offices via telehealth – Harvard Program Integrates Behavioral Health Into Primary Care Via Embedded Mental Health Staff & Telehealth Consultations and How Can We Deliver A Seamless Primary Care/Behavioral Health Consumer Experience?. So the recent announcement by Stanford Medicine of its new “virtual primary care clinic” caught my attention (see At Stanford Medicine, A Virtual Primary Care Clinic Designed Around The Patient). I have always thought that specialist consultations could be virtual, but primary care?

The Stanford program, called ClickWell, has an interesting model. Primary care is . . .