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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

The Scorecard was developed in response to a call for an annual tracking tool to inform primary care policy issued by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in their 2021 report, Implementing High-Quality Primary Care Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care. As the U.S.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

I’m a family physician by training. And I think that will be the biggest advancements: putting the information in front of the physician at their fingertip so that they can focus on the patient. Khang Nguyen (02:24): Thank you so much for asking that question. Couldn’t imagine doing anything else.