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

Multi-System Problems Need Multi-System Solutions

Communities are complex, and their problems represent multiple system failures. To improve community health, we should be taking an equally multifaceted approach to interventions – the second of four principles that together form a better system for addressing social determinants of health.

CommunityMichael RohwerMarch 11, 2019complex adaptive systems, community, community health, systems thinking, social determinants of health, outcome-based care, self-organized, networks

To Improve Social Determinants of Health, Think Community – Not Population

The path to creating a better system for studying and materially improving the health of communities begins with a better understanding of the two things that set it apart: perspective and dynamics.

CommunityMichael RohwerJanuary 11, 2019social determinants of health, population health, smart networks, complex adaptive systems, outcome-based care, community, systems thinking, networks, community health

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

New hope from a better diagnosis

Healthcare has borrowed “best practice” management paradigms from manufacturing and skillfully applied them to most of healthcare’s parts, yet overall, it continues as the largest category of inflation. The mismatch? Healthcare’s real-world is a biologically and socially complex adaptive system and how it works is vastly different than the factory floor. The result? Demoralized front-line practitioners facing constraints and mountainous layers of complicatedness that create cost, not affordable care. A new approach based on systems principles can help heal healthcare’s wicked problem.

Smart NetworksMichael RohwerAugust 23, 2017wicked problems, complex adaptive system, affordable care, systems thinking, self-organized, individualized care

Preparing to integrate the social determinants of health

We know social determinants of health (SDH) have a major effect on health outcomes and cost. Numerous observational studies of spending patterns show large savings, but few have captured data-driven examples to isolate portable methods for success. The reason is that the medicine and social sciences are miles apart in science, approach, and attitude.

CommunityMichael RohwerAugust 22, 2017social determinants of health, population health, collaboration, complex adaptive system, outcome-based care, community, wicked problems, systems thinking, shared purpose

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