If you’ve heard one thing from us over the past few years, it’s that our healthcare ecosystem needs significant changes – and that those changes should start with primary care. The current model of primary care – from consumer to payer to provider, is broken. Fortunately, emerging models of primary care offer a new vision of what is possible and where the industry is headed.

Here are three models that are remaking the primary care space – and making significant impacts on the quality and cost of healthcare for individuals and employers:

• Direct Primary Care (DPC)
• Onsite or Near-site Clinics
• Walgreens Primary Care Clinics

The human attention span is now 8 seconds – so chances are you won’t make it to the end of this blog … but it might just save your life (or at least save you from a workplace accident). Consider this:

• Being distracted for just 2.8 seconds doubles the likelihood of an error; and
• 73% of workplace slips, trips, and falls occur because the person is distracted.

In a world full of distractions, the most important ingredient to safety in the workplace (or at home or on the road!) is not procedure, knowledge, or training – it’s mindfulness.

Businessman, entrepreneur, owner of the Dallas Mavericks … Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM)? Wait what?

The most profound thing you can say at the end of an argument is, “I was wrong.”

Think about the last time you said those words. How did you get there? Who did you say it to? What did you learn?

Adam Grant defines critical thinking as “approaching new information with a mix of curiosity and doubt,” and gauging:

• the credibility of the source,
• the rigor of the logic, and
• the validity of the evidence.

Now, think about the last time you ended an argument by saying (out loud or to yourself), “I was right.” Did you check the source, the logic, and the evidence?

Critical thinking is almost guaranteed to be found by the time we say, “I was wrong.” I’m not so sure that’s the case when we say, “I was right.”

Let’s be wrong more often.