Five Ways Data Influences Health
The liberation of health data presents tremendous opportunities to help people lead healthier lives. This data has the power to provide previously unavailable insights and lead us to new innovative solutions.
Foundation grantees are using data to transform the future of #health
Hospital Price Transparency Challenge
We challenged information technology specialists to use recently released CMS hospital price data to build visualizations of the data and applications & tools that can help consumers make better decisions. Winners of the applications & tools category will be announced in December at the mHealth Summit.
Winners of the visualization challenge were announced at the Health 2.0 fall conference in two categories—static and interactive.
Visualization Static Winners
- First Place: Esther Chak and Mary-Jo Valentino, "So, You Need Knee Replacement Surgery"
- Second Place: Edward Kim, "wHealth"
- Third Place: Melvin Hill, "Hospital Prices and Consumer Assessment Survey"
Visualization Interactive Winners
- First Place: Adam McCann, "The Optimal Hospital"
- Second Place: Drake Pruitt, Mauro Brunato and Roberto Battiti, "Clinic Optimizer"
- Third Place: Sagar Sawant, "Crystal Care"
An Exploration into 'Real-World' Patient Data
Through RWJF's work with Project HealthDesign, a series of projects that looked at what happens when people collect information about their day-to-day lives, we found that health happens not in the doctor's office, but where patients live, work, and play.
When individuals collect data about their sleep patterns, exercise habits, and medication intake, for example, they provide valuable clues to how they and their doctors could be managing their care better.
New technologies that help us record and share our health information—such as smartphone apps, activity-tracking devices and online communities—provide a wealth of new opportunities for researchers. With these opportunities, the Pioneer Portfolio is now exploring the usefulness, value and limitations of real-time data generated by patients in 'real-world' settings through projects such as the Open Research Platform and Health Data Exploration Project.
Learn more about our approachOpen Research Exchange
Using this platform, researchers will be able to design and test health outcome measures with patients from PatientsLikeMe's community. The measures could aid development of new treatments that better meet patients’ needs.
Researchers, sign up to pilot the new platformHealth Data Exploration Project
This project is working to bring companies who collect real-world, real-time health data together with researchers who can mine them for new insights.
Get involved in this explorationHealth Datapalooza IV
Taking place June 3 and 4, Health Datapalooza IV featured the newest and most innovative and effective uses of health data by companies, startups, academics, government agencies and individuals. RWJF is proud to be a sponsor of Datapalooza and the Health Data Consortium.
Dispatches from Datapalooza
Pioneer Portfolio team members, as well as Entrepreneur in Residence Thomas Goetz, shared their experiences at Datapalooza. Follow their conversation:
- Paul Tarini: "The New Frontier in Health"
- Christine Nieves: "Bringing My 'A' Game"
- Thomas Goetz: "Creating Change at Scale"
- Beth Toner: "Focusing on the Patients"
- Christine Nieves: "Day 1 Highlights"
- Paul Tarini: "Conversation After Conversation"
For more perspectives on the conference, read the New Public Health blog's post, "Health Datapalooza: Moving from Paper Data We Don’t Use to Electronic Data We Do Use."
Videos: Using Data to Transform the Future of Health
RWJF and its grantees are taking a variety of innovative approaches with health data. Watch our videos:
- Imagining a Culture of Health
- RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize
- The Coming Revolution Data-Driven, Patient-Centered Health Care
- OpenNotes: A "New Medicine" With Clear Benefits
- What's Next Health: A Conversation with Jake Porway
- TEDMED 2013: Deborah Estrin
How Data is Transforming the Overall Health of Communities
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County Health Rankings
The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps illustrate that much of what influences our health happens in our schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods—and show how we can create healthier places to live, learn, work, and play.
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RWJF Data Hub
With this new online tool, you can track state-level data to customize and visualize facts/figures on key health and health care topics.
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National Directory
Get access to publicly available reports that include information on the quality of care delivery, patient outcomes, and patient feedback on physicians, hospitals, and cost.
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Data Center
The Health and Medical Care Archive, RWJF's official data archive, includes 100+ collections of detailed data used to inform research and policymaking.
View the Data Center
Follow the conversation at Health Datapalooza
Share Your Idea
RWJF's Pioneer Portfolio is seeking innovative approaches to using health data to solve major problems in health and health care. Learn more about our strategy and submit a brief proposal.
