TY - JOUR T1 - Accelerating a Network Model of Care: Taking a Social Innovation to Scale JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Vickie Cammack A1 - Kerry Byrne KW - network centric care KW - network model of care KW - personal networks KW - social innovation KW - Tyze AB - Government-funded systems of health and social care are facing enormous fiscal and human-resource challenges. The space for innovation in care is wide open and new disruptive patterns are emerging. These include self-management and personal budgets, participatory and integrated care, supported decision making and a renewed focus on prevention. Taking these disruptive patterns to scale can be accelerated by a technologically enabled shift to a network model of care to co-create the best outcomes for individuals, family caregivers, and health and social care organizations. The connections, relationships, and activities within an individual’s personal network lay the foundation for care that health and social care systems/policy must simultaneously support and draw on for positive outcomes. Practical tools, adequate information, and tangible resources are required to coordinate and sustain care. Tyze Personal Networks is a social venture that uses technology to engage and inform the individual, their personal networks, and their care providers to co-create the best outcomes. In this article, we demonstrate how Tyze contributes to a shift to a network model of care by strengthening our networks and enhancing partnerships between care providers, individuals, and family and friends. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/578 IS - 7 U1 - Tyze Personal Networks Vickie Cammack is President and CEO of Tyze Personal Networks. In this role, Vickie focuses her attention and expertise on how best to deliver online, personal support networks to people facing life challenges. Vickie is also a co-founder of Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN), a pioneer social enterprise supporting families to secure the future of their family member with a disability. She created PLAN’s Personal Network program, a unique response to the isolation experienced by people with disabilities and mentored the spread of PLAN groups in 40 locations globally. Vickie is the recipient of the Meritorious Service Medal of Canada, the Canadian Psychological Association’s Humanitarian Award, and Simon Fraser University President’s Club Distinguished Community Leadership Award. She co-led a Canadian exploration on sustainability and social innovation and is a Fellow with Social Innovation Generation. U2 - Tyze Personal Networks Kerry Byrne, PhD, is the Director of Research at Tyze Personal Networks. She has over 10 years of healthcare research experience and cares deeply about improving care for families. Through her work, she strives to give a voice to families’ and patients’ experiences with health and social care and improve the mobilization of formal and informal support for family caregivers and persons experiencing life challenges. Her areas of research expertise are in family caregiving, care transitions, home care, and relationship-centered care. ER -