The meaning of a word cloud

This image caught my attention when I attended the Presidential Address at the AOTA national conference in Philadelphia last week, and it has been tweeted around in occupational therapy circles since that time.The question is - what does it mean?The AOTA president discussed population health as a concept that she believes will be integral to occupational therapy ' s future vision.  Unfortunately, this vision has more to do with a misguided alignment with payment models (Triple Aim) than anything to do with patient care.This unusual vision has been promoted by other occupational therapists and also discussed extensively in this bloghereandhereandhereandhere, to link a few.What exactly is the meaning of this word cloud?  The initial intent of word clouds was to provide a base narrative analysis of content within written text.  Even at their best they are crude, because the words are presented in a decontextualized format.In this example the word cloud is a manipulative message driving tool that is mis-used to promote certain ideas over other ideas.  In this particular representation we are led to thinking that ' Population Health " is an important concept and related critically to other concepts including " Care Coordination " and " Triple Aim " and " Outcomes " and " Patient Centered. "The words are neatly arranged in appealing colors and in various sizes so that certain messages will catch our attention.But what is the source of the data that is used to po...
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