The Future of Primary Care

Primary Care is core to our health experience and navigation of the health system. Through primary care we attempt to understand our symptoms, what specialists we should see and what treatments may be tried to remediate symptoms and get on a path towards better health. Our task of managing medication, treatments, and chronic conditions is managed through primary care. However, fewer PCPs are entering the field and more are retiring and burning out, leaving a care gap. All of this is happening while people are increasingly more comfortable with telemedicine post-Covid and as the potential and promise for AI to support health experiences is being explored.

Mass Health Quality Partners, GoInvo, and Beneficent are convening a panel of stakeholders, PCPs and patients themselves to explore preferred primary care futures, using human-centered design, systems thinking and futures thinking toolkits. We are setting out to paint the picture of what is possible on order to generate insight, momentum and clarity and also to analyze what initiatives and organizations could help to make that future a reality. A working group will be established post-workshop to continue to take steps forward.

Join us at Harvard Medical School on January 23rd, 2:30-4:00 to participate in a collaborative session focused on imagining the future of primary care aided by AI. Please contact Amy Heymans for more information or to register.