Healthcare is correct to care about social issues. In June 2022, Deloitte calculated that social factors cost around $320B annually, which could eclipse $1T by 2040. Yet just because this is a problem for healthcare, it doesn't mean this is a healthcare problem. Instead, it is a problem for everyone.
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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.
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The human services sector lacks the systematic integration needed to accomplish their complex and essential work. Without network integration, there is no real-time data to guide current efforts. Without data, we cannot grow accountability, learn and design better strategies for the continuously adapting communities we support. Without continuous innovation, sustainable outcomes are not achievable.
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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.
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