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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

Let’s take a walk with “Quincy” through each of the four worlds to see how their health care experience might play out across the key driving forces. Retail Health for All, starring The Consumer Social ethos – community-driven HC financing – private-sector/commercial U.S.

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Diabetes Refugees

Insulin Nation

It’s reliably reported that Syria’s once-reliable health care delivery apparatus quickly disintegrated into a state of chaos soon after hostilities began between the Assad regime in power, moderate rebels, and the terror group known as ISIS. The assault on health care delivery comes from multiple directions in conflict zones.

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The who, what, when, where, and why of Cochrane

Society for Participatory Medicine

Over its first 20 years, Cochrane has grown from an initial group of 77 people from nine countries who met at the first Cochrane Colloquium in Oxford in 1993 to over 31,000 contributors from more than 120 countries in 2015, making it the largest organization involved in this kind of work (Allen 2006; Allen 2007; Allen 2011).

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#CochraneForAll + #BeyondTheRoom = #PatientsIncluded on blast

Society for Participatory Medicine

When the application process opened, I was ready, and hit the “get a letter of recommendation from a Cochrane research group” daily double when Gordon Guyatt , the father of evidence based medicine in the 20th/21st centuries, and his entire MAGIC team wrote and signed my letter. THAT was a really good day around here!