Welcome to the Clinical Innovation Network discussion around Brian Klepper's May webinar! To launch the conversation around this week's webinar topic, we would like to hear your experiences with innovative primary care models. Here is an inspiring Progress Note that Brian wrote to highlight how primary care's value can be reestablished in the American health care system, "How Can Primary Care Be A Policy Leader?" to get the conversation sta...

After listening to the webinar, I'm interested to see if it is possible for Dr. Beck to share the acupuncture consent form the team uses at the UCSD student clinic. I recently completed a study at our student run free clinic, which showed that a majority of patients were using integrative therapies outside of what was prescribed and offered at our clinic, including acupuncture. Most patients expressed interest. I was hoping to team up with some of the local acupunctur...

Hi Janine,

Thank you for these wonderful resources! My plan is to start calling up some people working on improving rural health care delivery soon and collect their stories, and both Dave's and your leads are going to be great places to start. If I find a story that's truly inspiring, I'll make sure to link it to the PCP forum.

I read the NYT article when it came out, and that article was probably one of the first times I thought about how rural medicine needed t...

Hi and thanks to everyone that was able to tune in to our webinar last week! For those of you that missed it, it will be up on our website shortly.

We received a number of great questions and were only able to cover a few of them during the webinar. Here is one from the the East Harlem Health Outreach Parternship at Mount Sinai that was echoed by many others in the audience:

"We're curious to hear what strategies you have used to recruit faculty volunteers." On the webinar,...