X = Primary Care

I’ll be at the Light-It Booth with Paulius Mui, MD and X = Primary Care, come say hi if you’re at HLTH

I'm thrilled to announce that I've accepted a new position with X = Primary Care as the Operations Fellow of XPC Clinic! The XPC Clinic is at the forefront of advancing primary care by combining medicine, technology, and education. The clinic features: 🖥️ Technology Sandbox: A space for startups and developers to build integrations and experiment with workflows. 🛠️ Product Playground: A platform for clinicians and operators to stress-test and explore new solutions. 📚 Education Lab: An environment to adapt EMR as curriculum for educators and students. I look forward to working with this incredible team, including Paulius Mui, MD, and Michael Hobbs, MD, dedicated to improving patient care and optimizing clinic operations. Excited for this new chapter and the opportunity to contribute to innovative healthcare solutions! https://lnkd.in/ekH9Ying

Last month I hosted a retreat along with Paulius Mui, MD, David M. Nichols, MD, and Gus Roman, MBA/MPH to discuss scaling primary care. This is our summary write up of the event: https://lnkd.in/gBivM6Gk Eric Bricker, MD also gave his takeaways of the event on his platform AHealthcareZ. https://lnkd.in/gw6ipRXM Highlights from our article: -Patients have the most to gain from paying for their own primary care. Government comes a close second but has many administrative complications. -The employer market is most promising for patient acquisition. -Medical schools may be attracting the wrong people. -Pharmacists have a lot of unrealized potential to participate in primary care. -DPC and/or VBC will be the dominant models for primary care in 20 years.

I'm going to be featuring millennials doing cool stuff because people doing cool work should be supported. So today we're promoting Kenneth Qiu, MD, and here's why: 1️⃣ Who the hell just decides to up and start their own private practice right out of residency? Yeah well, Kenneth does. 2️⃣ Kenneth also takes action: he hung out at the Virginia state capitol for two weeks, testifying and lobbying representatives to support Direct Primary Care. 3️⃣ We share an interest in policy — and he's driven by hating inefficiency in the healthcare system, and more importantly, seeing people being taken advantage of by the system. 4️⃣ The man is ORGANIZED and leading from the front: he's a founder of XPC (the org that invited me to Dallas, bringing stakeholders together to improve primary care in the US); he's the youngest VP of the DPC Alliance, and a featured speaker at its annual convention. Kenneth is intimidating in his action but so approachable and down to earth in his interactions. He's both a force to be reckoned with and a force for good; super well-connected and clearly has an ability to stay laser-focused on his targets that made him choose family medicine over emergency medicine as a specialty. (The latter, myself included — loves a bright shiny obj — SQUIRREL! 🐿️) Give him a follow, send him a DM, find out more about his primary care practice in Virginia. The guy is connected, smart, and driven! #MillennialsDoingCoolStuff

Excellent primary care exists in pockets around the country, but no one has figured out how to scale it. David M. Nichols, MD, Paulius Mui, MD, and I hosted thoughtful individuals from across the healthcare sector (clinical, hospital, broker, policy, private equity, and insurance) to discuss the challenge of scaling primary care. Thanks to Eric Bricker, MD for the retreat topic, Aasim Saeed, MD-MPA and Amenities Health for their sponsorship, Kike Oduba, MD, MPH with WellnessWits in partnership with MassChallenge for the beautiful venue in the Health Wildcatters event room, and Gus Roman, MBA/MPH for assistance in planning the event. Joe Fu Michiel van Zyl Richard Stephenson Scott Burns Fawwaz Haq, MD, MBA Graham Walker, MD Blake Madden Brian Voight Kelly Fristoe Sara Pastoor, MD, MHA, FAAFP David Pinkert Jeff Yuan Clint Flanagan, MD Tanner Aliff Jeff Kerr

I got a tough grilling last night from Paulius Mui, MD and the rest of the XPC crew. We talked about the evolving direction of integrated care and how the Collaborative Care model looks to be the best bet for improving both access and behavioral outcomes for patients in primary care. Which is basically...everyone? https://lnkd.in/epStm8nK #collaborativecare #cocm #primarycare #integratedbehavioralhealth

"Is the rise of longevity medicine a response to our secularized society's call for a new form of religion?" ~Michael R. O'Brien, MD Longevity doctors are being asked to profess with near deific confidence and prescribe with omniscient precision. This contrasts sharply with much of what is taught in medical school, where we learn to temper confidence with a buffer of potential error. It also opposes the humility ingrained through years of practice, showing us how even the greatest knowledge cannot solve many illnesses. Last week, I had the pleasure and honor to speak with my fellow primary care physicians of X = Primary Care, wonderfully moderated by Paulius Mui, MD. This community was founded on the belief that primary care is a powerful force with the potential to address many of the issues in our broken healthcare system. Our discussion led to how longevity medicine introduces a paradigm shift that primary care can adopt to fulfill this potential. We had a healthy debate of how far to lean into longevity medicine's attitude of celebrity renown and near religiosity for the betterment of our patients' health. Our discussion explored how longevity medicine introduces a paradigm shift that primary care can adopt to fulfill this potential. We had a healthy debate about how far to lean into longevity medicine’s attitude of celebrity renown and near religiosity for the betterment of our patients’ health. Longevity medicine is not about living forever. It’s about people wanting to regain control over their health and lives. The longevity movement reflects a desire for a kind of doctor and a healthcare system that commands our respect and efforts. So yes, in a way, longevity medicine is new version of authority that resembles what we once called religion.

Over the weekend we partnered with Emily Zhen from Zeal Capital Partners, a health equity focused venture capital firm, in bringing together stakeholders across the FQHC landscape to facilitate learning and collaboration. Thanks to NeuroFlow for letting us use their incredible space for the event. Virginia CHA National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) AllianceChicago #fqhc #primarycare #healthequity #sdoh

What do PCPs and APIs have in common? David M. Nichols, MD and I bring together the clinical and technical domains to explore most exciting opportunities for innovation in primary care Would love to hear what you all think https://lnkd.in/gpvCx6bR

Loved collaborating with Ben Dolson to create a framework for thinking differently about healthcare transformation. We explore core competencies of clinical innovators, how to apply them to health tech, and where to start 🤓 https://lnkd.in/gCbyfHJv