Taking the decision to establish a new independent practice is an exciting first step in your journey as a clinician. While transitioning to an independent practice comes with new responsibilities, it also opens the door to a more intimate way to provide care for your patients and deepen the patient-physician relationship. Whether you are coming from a different practice or are straight out of medical school, we’ve developed this brief guide to give you a step-by-step overview with resources and advice from successful independent practices.

Throughout the pandemic, the resilience, dedication, and heroism of primary care professionals across the nation was put on full display. But even before the pandemic reshaped the healthcare landscape, there has been a growing consensus around the idea that primary care can and should play a more central role in U.S. healthcare.

But while primary care is being recognized as a key lever in providing a better patient experience, improving health outcomes, and delivering care at a lower cost, many primary care physicians are being driven to serious burnout and experiencing unsustainable pressures.

In this ebook, we’ll try to unpack the broken economics surrounding primary care that are contributing to these challenges. We’ll also explain why we believe another system is possible: A healthcare system where primary care clinicians can take the driver's seat in making healthcare sustainable again. Where we can advance the craft of medicine and transition of payment models while staying true to what’s most important about medicine: the patient-physician relationship.

The advances in healthcare EHRs have spurred practice efficiencies, improved care through patient data sharing, and improved workflows within the practice. Technology Advances have also caused some providers to stress over how to pick the right one. At the same time, a purpose-built EHR may be the key to mitigating the increasing rates of provider burnout and making for a financially solvent practice.

Although the increased use of technology, including the requirement to implement it in independent practices to secure certain value-based care reimbursements, has been shown to contribute to the burnout rate, integrated healthcare technology can be the solution needed to help improve and simplify care team workflows, reducing the stressors that contribute to burnout.

For example, the research on physician burnout found that, on a scale of 0 to 100, a 10-point increase in the usability of an electronic health record (EHR) will decrease the odds of physician burnout by 30%.