Restoring the Value of People

Our most urgent goal is to replace the justifiable anger permeating society with genuine opportunity for growth and success for the middle and lower economic classes. Authentic opportunity will restore hope and trust in each other and the communities we live within. Governmental policy supporting system-science-based local initiatives will make it easier to restore the American Dream and point the way to solving the rampant, systemic problems tearing the nation apart.

Community, Shared Purpose, Smart NetworksMichael RohwerSeptember 2, 2021shared purpose, relationships, real value, human services, complex adaptive systems, social determinants of health, social services

Three Core Obstacles to Improving Social Determinants of Health

Healthcare 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.

Community, Smart NetworksMichael RohwerSeptember 1, 2019systems thinking, complex adaptive system, community, community health, outcome-based care, self-organized, Fostering Hope Initiative, health outcomes, collaboration, collective impact, social determinants of health, complex adaptive systems, integrated care, shared purpose

Integrate Community Efforts to Improve Community Health

At 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core of our social problems is the fact that our fragmented approach to the health and well-being of our communities is out of date.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.

Community, Smart NetworksMichael RohwerJune 17, 2019systems thinking, complex adaptive system, community, community health, outcome-based care, self-organized, Fostering Hope Initiative, health outcomes, collaboration, collective impact

Datapalooza - A New Perspective On Social Determinants

In March, Curandi presented at the 10th Anniversary Health Datapalooza, a gathering for meaningful collaboration and face-to-face conversations about the big ideas, big opportunities and policy hurdles for improving health and health care.

Smart NetworksMichael RohwerApril 5, 2019complex adaptive systems, community, community health, systems thinking, social determinants of health, outcome-based care, self-organized, networks

You can’t know what you can’t see

All of us have a personal narrative grown from firsthand experience that filters and shapes our understanding and perspective. It can also blind us to growing problems and innovative solutions. Being able to see the whole is job one for understanding how our healthcare system works and for being able to make it work better.

Smart NetworksMichael RohwerMay 9, 2018community, social services, integrated care, managed care, social determinants of health, complex adaptive system, population health, individualized care, affordable care, wicked problems, systems thinking, shared purpose

Network business models will revolutionize community health

Since the 1990s, the cost of medical care has seen the greatest rate of inflation across all sectors, suppressing wages and limiting economic growth. The system is an enormously complicated technical approach to a complex problem. But complicated is not complex, and only complexity can manage complexity; working harder at the old paradigm won’t yield a different outcome. It doesn’t need to be this way.

Smart NetworksMichael RohwerNovember 23, 2017networks, models, complex adaptive system, self-organized, integrated care, collaboration, individualized care, outcome-based care, shared purpose, affordable care, social determinants of health

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