Dr. Sara Pastoor is a clinically active family physician and currently serves as the Head of Primary Care Advancement at Elation Health, where she advocates for primary care and its powerful role in healthcare. She also is the personal PCP to patients at People-Centered Health, a direct primary care practice in Texas. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and spent the first 15 years of her career in the Army Medical Department, helping to lead the Military Health System transformation to a patient-centered system for health. Dr. Pastoor has also led patient-centered transformation, primary care expansion, and EHR workflow optimization in the academic and employer-sponsored primary care settings during her 26-year carer in health tech. On the weekends, she volunteers in a free primary care clinic, teaching students and serving an indigent population in her hometown.
AI solutions baked into the EHR experience could radically transform the clinical effectiveness of physicians by leveraging the richness of the longitudinal patient record, while also creating efficiencies that give them back more time to care and create more revenue.
Primary care has demonstrated remarkable resilience in spite of the intense pressures of the pandemic, and there is critical work to do to help our nation recover from the wide-ranging consequences of Covid-19.
Neurologists and health care practitioners must evolve with the world. Telemedicine carts assist in this evolution by serving as an intermediary between patients and doctors.