It is a difficult time for primary care. Physicians and advanced practice providers are burning out, their care teams are frustrated and their patients are unhappy with long waits and hurried visits.

Even with significant organizational investment in cross-system coordination, primary care providers report a range of challenges in coordinating care with specialists in other health systems.

If a child loses her balance on a log, she will have to step off to avoid falling. Unbalanced tires on a car make for a bumpy ride and uneven tire wear. An engine failure on one wing of an airplane ...

U.S. health systems are making primary care a strategic priority, with most planning to expand their footprint and adopt AI tools to improve operations, according to new research from Bain & Company.

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Objectives: Unused medical appointments affect both patient care and clinic operations, and the frequency of cancellations due to clinic reasons is underreported. The prevalence of these unused ...

Delaware lawmakers are weighing major primary care changes as doctors call it a lifeline and hospitals warn of job losses and ...

Nearly half of a sample of primary care physicians (PCPs) in the United States were affiliated with hospitals in 2022, almost double the percentage just 13 years earlier in 2009, a new study of nearly ...

Alexandra Zenoff is a Research Associate on Global Public Health at the Asia Society Policy Institute. This project was made possible by the generous support of BeiGene. Improving primary health care ...

Alexandra Russo moved in 2020 to the Longwood Medical area in Boston, the epicenter of the state’s vaunted health care ecosystem, but she still couldn’t find a primary care doctor. She called a number ...

The United States faces a serious shortage of primary care physicians for many reasons, but one, in particular, is inescapable: compensation. Substantial disparities between what primary care ...