MedCity News August 28, 2023
Team-based primary care is needed now more than ever as our “on-demand” and mobile lives, complicated by a primary care shortage crisis, have led to a more transactional and fragmented healthcare experience.
Improving our underachieving healthcare system is more than an economic, medical, technological, or academic puzzle. It’s personal. For people across the U.S., it has a profound impact on their quality of life; even more so for individuals with complex care needs, mental illness, and those facing broader health-affecting challenges like poverty or homelessness. One of the most powerful solutions we have to support individuals who need the most complex support and care coordination is one that considers whole-person health: team-based primary care.
Primary care that is focused on...