Primary Care Across the Care Continuum

Abstract

Primary care is not the traditional model that it used to be. To some extent, the traditional black bag doctor is making a comeback though. This latest model has undergone some dramatic and exciting changes over the last decade incorporating the high touch that elderly desire with the high tech of today’s environment. Given the aging population, the places where those aged live out the rest of their lives so too has this shaped how a primary care practice can look. For those providers that are eager, primary care no longer is bound by the brick-and-mortar walls of its practice. This chapter will transcend those barriers to explore what has worked and failed and demonstrate how a practice can deliver quality chronic care management all the while making the practice more successful and lucrative than typical “boxed-in” practices.