| Launch the newly charged and expanded Center for Primary Care Health IT. |
Launch newly charged entity: Center for Primary Care Health IT, or other name as agreed upon. Pursue funding. Collaborate with the Graham Center. Work with counterpart organizations in other primary care professions (eg, AAP, ACP) to increase impact through collaboration.
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| Build improvements into existing EHR platforms, making it easier for physicians to practice great primary care. |
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Define needs of high-functioning EHR on two levels:
Patient needs: eg, decision support, patient access to data, patient-entered data, individual care plans, and quality metrics. Population needs: eg, risk stratification, disease registries, reporting requirements, and analytics.
Identify EHR platforms with highest market share in family practices and work with them to close gap between needs definition and current state. Explore opportunities to foster greater interoperability between systems. Create and deploy ongoing feedback mechanisms to promote usability/flexibility with vendors over time and evaluate platforms.
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| Link the use of new and emerging technologies to facilitating practice— strengthening relationships between patients and care team while enabling care team to practice in a more scalable way. |
Leverage capabilities and expand reach by collaborating with an organization like Consumer Reports to continually evaluate emerging technologies; work with research function to determine usefulness. Assess potentially expanded role for technologies to deliver more patient centric care, including in-office ultrasound equipment and applied genomics. Provide pathways for family physicians to integrate.
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| Assess potentially expanded role of applied genomics in primary care and provide a pathway for family physicians to integrate this technology with practice. |
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