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

The Physicians Foundation

“Health systems and payers are asking primary care physicians to take on more — manage multiple complex conditions, answer patient emails, handle insurance administration, and provide mental health and social needs screenings,” said Christopher F. Koller, President of the Milbank Memorial Fund. 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. They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that. 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.