Our Eyes on the Future of Health and Health Care

We face huge problems in health and health care. To solve these challenges, we need to look to the future and be open to new, unconventional ideas.

Team Director Brian Quinn and Pioneer team members discuss the types of projects Pioneer is seeking and the ideas that have the potential to transform health and health care.

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Measuring Health from the Patient's Perspective

RWJF has awarded PatientsLikeMe a $1.9 million grant to create the world's first open-participation research platform for the development of patient-centered health outcome measures. The new platform will be linked with the PatientsLikeMe network to help researchers develop health outcome measures that better reflect patients’ experiences with a disease.

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The Coming Revolution of Data-Driven, Patient-Centered Health Care

In a world with abundant, actionable health data—both from electronic medical records and our everyday observations—we may be empowered to make better decisions and our relationships with doctors may significantly change.

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OpenNotes: Sharing Doctors’ Notes With Patients—A Simple Idea for Better Health Care

The evidence is in: When patients have access to their doctors’ visit notes, they feel more in control of their health care, better understand their medical issues, and report they are more likely to take medications as prescribed. With little impact on their workload, doctors report that note-sharing strengthened their relationships with patients.

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About the Pioneer Portfolio

We seek out and support innovation to accelerate progress and create transformative change. We support projects that use original, unconventional approaches and lead to breakthrough ideas that can shape the future of health and health care.

Pioneer is always looking for innovative, new ideas. Learn more about our strategy and submit a proposal.

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