What is a Peer-to-Peer Community?
In a health-focused peer-to-peer community, a collection of individuals unite around a common passion and relentless focus to improve outcomes for a particular population. Members of a peer-to-peer community commit to sharing data, experience, and skills to design, develop and implement improvements inside and outside the clinical setting.
The Best of Both Worlds
Social platforms have existed to connect people for everyday communication throughout life, including during difficult times when we need extra support. Research networks have existed to collate data rapidly from participants to further learning and research. We see peer-to-peer communities as the intersection of social and research networks, bringing the best attributes together in a platform that provides more security than social networks, and promotes broader engagement of clinicians and researchers with patients and families than in a research network.
Shared Purpose
Hive Networks brings social and organizational science, improvement science, and data science together into one platform. It provides the infrastructure around which communities may form, develop, and thrive by uniting clinicians, researchers, patients and families on a shared mission to improve outcomes.
From sharing experience, expertise, and knowledge to prioritizing problems to work on together, the community builds from a foundation of generosity and trust to develop, test, and refine innovations then deploy them to achieve better outcomes for all.
