Presenter: Kristina Duarte, MD, Providence Community Health Center

The annual wellness visit is when primary care physicians and other healthcare providers connect with patients, build trust, and screen for everything from mental health, to cholesterol levels, to physical frailty, to obesity. These annual visits are many Americans’ primary touchpoint with the healthcare system. But it’s only an hour a year, at most. Reimagining how to meet the goals of the annual visit, and obtain accurate laboratory, vital sign, and physical data in novel ways, provides a great opportunity to shift healthcare paradigms.