Humana Inc. has partnered with Availity, Business Health Care and nationally-recognized health care consultant Dr. Jacque Sokolov to create ChangeNow4Health, an online community committed to improving health care through immediate action.

"Our health care system is badly broken, but there are disconnected pockets of progress around the country," said Michael B. McCallister, president and chief executive officer of Humana. "Yet because health care is such a fragmented industry, the people and organizations behind these initiatives have a hard time communicating and coming together. ChangeNow4Health is designed to be a channel that action-oriented individuals can use to step forward, exchange ideas with one another and solve problems now. It's an online, real-time catalyst and clearinghouse for change."

One of the key features of ChangeNow4Health is its online communities, which will serve as forums to share best practices and as virtual workplaces to incubate and implement solutions. There are currently three communities, each one moderated by a prominent health care blogger:

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