A New Focus

The RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America, created in 2008 to identify ways to improve health for all Americans, is back at work with a focus on two key priorities. Mark McClellan and Alice Rivlin return to co-chair.

RWJF Commission Reconvenes

Learn more about the 2013 Commission

Check out the June 19 @RWJFCommission meeting agenda. Attend in person or tune in.#cbha2013

leading thinkers explore big questions

An interview with Jake Porway.

Big Ideas for the Future of Health and Health Care

The leading thinkers and visionaries in our What's Next Health series are helping us explore big ideas and new areas that are likely to be important to health and health care moving forward. Each month, What’s Next Health talks with those thought leaders to inspire us all to think big about the future of health and health care.

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Making Big Data Useful

Technology developers: Enter a $120,000 challenge to create visualizations and apps to spark creative ways to view and use hospital pricing data.

Technology developers: Enter an RWJF-sponsored $120,000 challenge.

Details of the challenge here

Recess Matters

A well-organized and active recess may be the key to a better school day, according to a new evaluation of the RWJF-supported program Playworks.

A well-organized and active recess may be the key to a better school day, according to a new evaluation of the RWJF-supported program Playworks.

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Transforming Recess

"Playworks gets results. I’ve seen it firsthand, and a growing body of evidence now shows that, when it comes to changing schools for the better, recess and play may be one of the most powerful and underutilized tools we have."

—Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, RWJF president and CEO

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Teachers in @Playworks schools spend 34% fewer minutes moving from recess to learning. #recesscounts

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    Report Suggests Consumers Will Have More Options in State Exchanges

    Research by RWJF’s State Health Reform Assistance Network indicates the number of insurers that offer non-group plans to consumers on state-run health insurance exchanges will be larger than the current number of carriers.

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    Solving the Riddle of the U.S. "Suicide Belt"

    The Mountain West has a suicide rate about twice as high as the country’s Mid-Atlantic region. A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar and colleagues shed light on the mystery in their new study.

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    Project ECHO Launches National Institute

    Project ECHO is a groundbreaking approach to increasing access to specialty care that started in New Mexico for hepatitis C treatment. A new national institute focuses on replicating the project, launching an innovative mental health clinic that could serve as a national model.

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    Spreading Access to Specialty Health Care

    Project ECHO (Extension for Community Health Care Outcomes) leverages teletechnology to train primary care doctors in rural and underserved areas to treat complex chronic illness.

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    An Ambitious Effort to Get Americans Covered

    This week marks an especially important milestone, says Andrew Hyman, JD, team director for the Foundation's Coverage team. The "Get Covered America" campaign kicks off across the nation.

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    Is the "Private Option" A Viable One For Expanding Medicaid?

    Some states that oppose the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion are now considering a plan to provide Medicaid recipients with a voucher to purchase private insurance on the state exchanges. A policy brief from Health Affairs and RWJF examines whether a "private option" can be cost-effective and still provide benefits equal to traditional Medicaid.

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