Linda Cash This is Me

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1. 1. Guidelines For Your Health - Web Site Credits

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   Published on: 3/31/2008   Last Visited: 3/31/2008

   Linda Cash, The Change Foundation

2. 2. Change Foundation nudges innovative consumer-based website forward -- November 28, 2003 -- Axiom News Services

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   Published on: 11/28/2003   Last Visited: 6/27/2005

   A new consumer website being developed for best practice clinical guidelines will take material written by physicians and then re-write it for the consumer, according to Linda Cash, program manager for The Change Foundation. The website should be functional in January or February.
   
   "This is for the informed consumer, who has wanted more information about their health," explains Cash.
   
   Traditional consumer behaviour is evident in the health care marketplace where today's users of health services are sophisticated and informed and demand a much bigger say in their own health care, she points out.
   
   "The interaction between consumer and health care provider is therefore much more interactive than it has been in the past. The evolution of the consumer's role in the health care marketplace has a number of different effects, with implications for what they come to expect from the system and how they behave," she notes.
   
   The Foundation is starting off with four specific areas of emphasis for the website: heart disease, diabetes, lower back pain and anxiety and depression. "We want physicians to be confident when they are sending patients to the site to access information," says Cash, who points out patients are quickly turned into consumers when they can find their own information and make an informed choice.
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   An example, says Cash, is acute low back pain, another of the four focus areas for the website. Cash says physicians have been very supportive of this area being included because of the high prevalence of patients visits (second after physician visits after the common cold) and the need to have better educated patients, understanding the need for minimal investigations and interventions.
   
   "The fact is, some of the questions people might have around back pain might be dealt with here (on the site) helping patients understand the best practices in managing their condition, thus reducing patient apprehension, contributing to speeding recovery and reducing use of health care resources, says Cash.

3. 3. The Change Foundation - The Change Foundation Newsletter

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   Published on: 2/21/2005   Last Visited: 2/21/2005

   Our new team members include Program Manager, Linda Cash, and Program Assistant, Victoria Wolno.
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   Linda Cash has joined the Foundation to support the grants, development and education programs and identify additional markets, products, and services to support the Foundation's strategic direction. She will also be working with the Foundation to further develop our Internet strategy and online learning products such as The Change Exchange.
   
   Linda was most recently Director of Partners for Health, a volunteer coalition of health agencies that work together to provide integrated health services to the population of southeast Toronto. She brings to her new role at The Change Foundation extensive experience working at the Ministry of Health, including work with the hospital sector and with the community health centre (CHC) and health service organization (HSO) programs. Linda can be reached at lcash@oha.com or 416-205-1451.
   
   Linda replaces Lesley Beneteau as Program Manager.
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   Victoria (Torie) Wolno will be providing support to Linda and to the Foundation's Research Manager, Julie Gilbert, and will be directly responsible for managing
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   Organizations who are interested in partnering or sponsoring The Wave Café this year should contact Linda Cash at 416-205-1451.