The briefing was jointly sponsored by CAFM, ABFM, SGIM, and the Primary Care Collaborative.

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ABFM, in partnership with CLIIR at UCSF, has been awarded a 3-year cooperative agreement by the HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to track physicians use and burdens of Health IT.

With the focus of the COVID-19 pandemic on the many challenges in public health, acute and long-term care, what has happened within primary care has remained largely below the radar. Yet primary care physicians (family doctors and GPs) can constitute up to 50% of the medical workforce and are highly susceptible to contracting emerging infectious diseases themselves, as they are often the first point of contact people have with the health system.