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A project of the George Washington University’s Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program, Legal Barriers creates resources for legal analysis to address a range of legal matters related to value-based purchasing, health information, and health-system ref...
How can we motivate people to make healthier decisions? This series of experiments applies the principals of behavioral economics to better understand how and why doctors and patients make the decisions they do. Behavioral economics and the science ...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) creates health insurance exchanges, or online marketplaces where individuals can purchase insurance plans, but many uninsured face potential roadblocks because they lack credit cards and bank accounts. In their Health R...
See how @RWJF grantee @Playworks is using recess to make a better school day. #recesscounts September 3, 2013 - Washington Post highlight's Playwork's efforts as well as research funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. September 19, 2013 –In a...
This paper focuses on Sentara Healthcare, a not-for-profit health care system headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia. Sentara's mission is "to improve health every day" by offering health care at all levels, ranging from community health and primary car...
Via the Internet, ARCHeS will dramatically expand access to Archimedes, a powerful medical outcomes predictive model. By using the ARCHeS solution to complement their own experiences and insights, health care decision-makers are better equipped to a...
Every $1 invested in Better Futures Enterprises generates up to $3.80 for the community in the form of paid child support, reduced criminal behavior and homelessness, and reduced use of social and acute health care services.* *Better Futures Enterpr...
August 28, 2013 – Child First partnered to help collect school supplies for students in need at the start of the school year. Child First, an innovative home-visit program in Connecticut, is designed to stabilize families, connect them with social s...
Biobank on Pioneering Ideas blog "The Tip of the Iceberg for Science: Massive Biobank Starts Yielding Results" "A Milestone at Kaiser Permanente's 'Biobank'" The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Kaiser Permanente Research Program on Gen...
The State Health Reform Assistance Network (State Network) is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program dedicated to providing technical assistance to states in order to maximize coverage expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). State Health R...