Do you want to improve access to high-value health care for rural and underserved communities? Experts discuseds key primary care payment and delivery strategies in Medicaid to enhance outcomes and equity. Their remarks keyed off a new PCC report that examines proven and promising practices for strengthening primary care in Medicaid, which is also informed by a diverse, expert committee convened by PCC.
Technology is a key driver on the road to the future. But technology can bring primary care to some favorable and some unfavorable places. What is working to uphold the promise of advanced primary care captured in the Shared Principles of Primary Care? How might technology be undermining such promise? How is technology enhancing the quadruple aim, and where may it be getting in the way? How does equity factor in? How could better use of technology have helped primary care and public health during the pandemic?
Ask any sports coach about working with a team, and they will tell you there are many considerations, including which skill sets to assemble and how to manage and motivate a group of people toward a common goal. Team-based care is one of the Shared Principles of Primary Care, PCC’s vision for advanced primary care, which more than 350 organizations have embraced, and a necessary feature to achieve comprehensiveness and equity, among other principles.
