Read along with the Primary Care Review community! We’ve combed the recently published literature to choose a few select morsels worth your time. We hope you’ll agree!
Primary Care Investment Guide
This month, our feature selection of the February – March Journal Club releases of The Primary Care Investment Guide and its companion Executive Summary are a great step forward for policymakers, employers, provider organization leadership, practices and health plans to better understand how they make strategic investments in primary care and advanced primary care management.
The authors, a nationally-recognized set of prominent researchers from Harvard, UCSF, Oregon Health and Science, and Suffolk assess the body of literature and highlight six team-based services that improve health outcomes, reduce costs, enhance patient experience, support workforce wellbeing and advance equity:
Behavioral Health Integration, including the Primary Care Behavioral Health model and the Collaborative Care Model
- Embedded Clinical Pharmacists to optimize medication management and chronic disease control
- Care Management for patients with complex medical or social needs
- Population Health Programs that use data to close care gaps and proactively manage chronic disease
- Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and Disparities Initiatives, including systematic screening and community health worker support
- E-Consults, enabling rapid, specialist input and reducing avoidable referrals
The guide is a big step forward in both understanding more about high value team-based care components and how to best resource them for success.
Michigan Multipayer Initiatives 