Health Effectiveness

Improve health outcomes: understanding social networks leads to improved outcomes as you

• Analyze: Identify the key sources of influence in communities: physicians, patients, employees, members, residents.
• Target: Focus your health interventions selectively, based on network structure, and take advantage of the “multiplier effect.”
• Activate: Use social connections to magnify and accelerate the flow of information and health programs in the network.

Achieve results: Greater performance at a lower investment of resources.

For health plans: Improved health outcomes for wellness and disease management programs.Understand how your providers actually practice in communities, and drive information flow and behavior change through existing networks.

For hospitals: Map out your physician social networks to improve targeting for medical staff development.