The Primary Care Reinvention

For the past few years, I've been thinking more about future models for primary care. It all started at The 2013 OPEN MINDS Technology & Informatics Institute, when Marci Nielsen, Ph.D., then-Chief Executive Officer of Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative, delivered a keynote presentation, The Evolution Of Patient-Centered Care & The Future Of Integration In Health Care. She spoke about "key elements" of primary care—"assess, prescribe, and refer." My initial reaction was that those are functions that could be facilitated using augmented intelligence, freeing up physicians to spend more time with consumers.

Roll forward five . . .