HIT Consultant December 24, 2025
What You Should Know
– Harvard Medical School’s Center for Primary Care has released a comprehensive “Primary Care Investment Guide,” providing the first evidence-based roadmap for deploying capital into team-based care models.
– The report identifies six critical “Advanced Primary Care” (APC) services—including behavioral health integration and e-consults—that demonstrate measurable ROI through reduced hospitalizations and improved equity.
– With the U.S. spending only 4.6% of its healthcare dollar on primary care despite a shortage affecting 98 million people, the guide argues that aligning payment models with these specific structural capabilities is the only path to sustainable health outcomes.
Harvard’s Center for Primary Care Investment Guide: Evidence-Based Ideas for Decisionmakers
For decades, the U.S. healthcare system has operated on...







