Healthcarepedia:Mission & Goals

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Healthcarepedia Mission

Healthcarepedia (http://healthcarepedia.org) is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable educational guide to healthcare in the United States of America. It is collaboratively built by dedicated students, academics, and professionals who wish to improve health and wellness through better literacy of healthcare--fostering understanding of how care is delivered, managed, and governed. It is not intended as a source of medical advice or to inform health decisions.

The mission of Healthcarepedia is to provide:

  • Create an easily accessible, accurate, and objective source of information about healthcare
  • Empower individuals by equipping them with the necessary tools and knowledge in order to understand and interact with the U.S. healthcare system

2017 Goals

  • Create basic content for all relevant healthcare topics and concepts
  • Ensure Healthcarepedia content is greatly and widely accessed
  • Encourage broad participation in content creation and curation from a wide range of healthcare students, academics, and professionals
  • Survey audience stakeholders to best understand needs and concerns
  • Develop the policy and guidelines for efficient content creation, editing, and administration
  • Develop a continuous quality improvement system for ensuring that content is accessible, accurate, and objective
  • Identify clear, measurable indicators for success
  • Develop a system of recognition for excellence in content contribution and improvement