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PHCPI Launches New Digital Report: “If Health Systems Could Talk: Illuminating the Vital Signs of Strong Primary Health Care”

New digital report shares insights from the process of creating the first 23 Vital Signs Profiles – PHCPI’s signature measurement tool – and set the scene for the next chapter of PHCPI’s work.

Primary Health Care

Resources

Exemplars in Global Health: Costa Rica’s health success due to PHC – not because it’s a ‘crazy, magical place’

Exemplars in Global Health talk with Hannah Ratcliffe, Ariadne Labs’ former associate director of research for PHC, and Dr. Madeline Pesec, a PHC research assistant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, about their research on the Costa Rican system and what lessons it could hold for other countries.

Primary Health Care

Research

Making Sense of New Approaches to Primary Care Delivery: A Typology of Innovations in Primary Care

Dr. Asaf Bitton co-authors a commentary in NEJM Catalyst on a new typology of primary care delivery innovations in the U.S. to spark meaningful discussion among stakeholders and policy makers on their impact, ramifications, and value

Primary Health Care

Research

Improving Primary Care Valuation Processes to Inform the Physician Fee Schedule

National Academies release new report, co-chaired by Dr. Asaf Bitton, making specific recommendations for CMS, to address the systemic flaws currently affecting primary care professionals and limiting the potential of high-quality primary care services for all.  

Primary Health Care

Research

Strong Primary Health Care in the United States – Closer Than We Might Think

Drs. Asaf Bitton and Bruce Fink pen a commentary in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine on the steps needed to reorient US primary health care to be more effective, equitable, and efficient.

Primary Health Care

Tools & Downloads

BP Sawa Final Report

The Ariadne Labs | Penda Health partnership designed and piloted BP Sawa, a chronic care management program for Penda patients with hypertension with the goal to develop and implement a hypertension clinical pathway for clinicians and patients to improve hypertension outcomes.

Primary Health Care

Videos

Video: Using Scorecards to Strengthen Primary Care

Dr. Asaf Bitton discusses new Health Affairs Forefront article published from Ariadne Labs and collaborators at Massachusetts Health Quality Partners and Milbank Memorial Fund that demonstrates how scorecards can help strengthen struggling primary care systems in the U.S.

Primary Health Care

Research

Measuring The Health Of Primary Care: Lessons From US And Global Scorecards

Members of our Primary Health Care program, with colleagues Barbra G. Rabson, MPH and Christopher F. Koller, share lessons from their work in developing Primary Care Scorecards globally and in the US and strategies to strengthen and implement high-quality primary care for everyone.

Primary Health Care

Research

The effect of primary healthcare on mortality: Evidence from Costa Rica

Primary Health Care Fellow, Madeline Pesec, MD, ScM co-authors newly published research on the relationship between Costa Rica’s PHC reforms and avoidable mortality reductions.

Primary Health Care

Resources

Strengthening Global Health Security through Critical Immunization Programs

Drs. Rebecca Weintraub and Asaf Bitton are signatories on the latest report of the CSIS Working Group on Routine Immunizations and Global Health Security.

Primary Health Care, Vaccine Delivery

Research

Comparison of Visit Rates Before vs After Telehealth Expansion Among Patients With Mental Health Diagnoses Treated at Federally Qualified Health Centers

Our PHC team’s latest publication in JAMA where they assessed whether FQHC-level telehealth availability was associated with visit rates for patients with mental health diagnoses enrolled in Medicaid and served by FQHCs

Primary Health Care

Tools & Downloads

Análisis de la capacidad de la atención primaria de salud en la Región Huetar Atlántica de Costa Rica