The online communities focus on three areas of interest:

• Helping Consumers Make Smarter Health Care Decisions
• Simplifying the Business of Health Care
• Preventing Sickness and Maintaining Health

ChangeNow4Health- the sequel: Return of the Bloggers

After a brief hiatus, we’re back!  We took a short siesta while the ChangeNow4Health program is being re-tooled to address the challenges of achieving meaningful health care change in the midst of a major economic downturn. We look forward to upcoming announcements on exciting changes with this initiative!

Since we last touched base:

• We’ve completed review of 156 separate submissions from the community for the Innovation XChange, featuring many well thought-out and detailed ideas for how to make meaningful improvements to the health care system right now. Stay tuned for information on the results.
• We’ve been planning the next phase of this program to make a significant contribution towards engaging all stakeholders in the dialogue, generation of ideas and calls to action to improve our nation’s health care system while navigating through an economic crisis.
• We’ve kept our finger on the pulse of the critical issues and trends that continue to shape the direction of our health care system, and are once again pleased to provide some insightful commentary and engage with the community on a myriad of topics that affect us all.

You’ll find our new and previous commentary, and hopefully your comments, in our respective blogs in the ChangeNow4Health communities. Please do continue on this journey with us!

Fard Johnmar, Moderator: Helping Consumers Make Smarter Health Care Decisions Community;

Clive Riddle, Moderator: Simplifying the Business of Health Care Community;

Dmitriy Kruglyak, Moderator: Preventing Sickness and Maintaining Health Community