Toward a New Definition of Primary Care: Primary care 3.0

While 2.0 companies such as Calm and Talkspace enabled human care to be delivered digitally, and enabled more access through on demand care, 3.0 companies will offer fully-digital or hybrid human-digital care and enable more people to get access to affordable mental healthcare at anytime.

Challenge #1: Lack of comprehensive and centralized health data, inhibiting potential for personalized care. Most EHR systems can’t exchange information between providers. And patients are less likely than ever to establish a consistent relationship with a primary care physician. With patients increasingly switching between providers and health ins... See more

More telemedicine-native practices instead of telemedicine as an add-on. A company I advise, DocSpace has been working on this problem for a while. They bring the costs of starting a practice way lower, by letting physicians build virtual private practices first before moving into the real-world.