Too often, the results systems deliver are not what was intended. If we want our community systems to produce different results, we need to do something different. To create the change we want to see, we need to change the architecture of the health and human services system, refocus its purpose and align incentives around that purpose - and that starts with collaboration.
Read MoreTechnology gives us the ability to change system behavior and align relationships around real value. We can tune human networks to create real opportunity for everyone, and in the process create a sustainable future.
Read MoreIf a farmer does not improve the soil in which his or her crops grow, the harvest gets smaller every year. Rather than our enormously expensive, competitive, hierarchical model of healthcare, we must use the science of systems and the power of networks to collaboratively approach health – creating an ecosystem that creates real value, not just money.
Read MoreHealthcare is ideally positioned to catalyze the critical reorganization necessary to improve social determinants of health to help both healthcare and education succeed. But improvement will require systems and thinking that are focused on the whole more than the parts being changed.
Read MoreAt the core of our social problems is the fact that our fragmented approach to the health and well-being of our communities is out of date. A more systematic approach is needed, one grounded in current system science and better aligned to how the complex adaptive network we call community works.
Read MoreIf healthy, strong communities are what we want to see, we’ve been going about it all wrong. Learn about an Oregon group’s network approach to community health.
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