The modern American medical system, and particularly its education, was crystallized into being following a Carnegie Foundation funded report in 1910, put together by Abraham Flexner. It sought to raise the bar for medical standards and changed the landscape of medicine in this country almost overnight.…

Last Monday’s USA Today headline article “Innovative health programs counter primary care shortage” really captured some of the exciting innovation going on in the field of primary care. It also reminded all health care stakeholders just how quickly technology is progressing and the seemingly limitless potential of digital media to improve health care outcomes across the political, clinical and fiscal spectrum.…