TEDMED 2013
April 16, 2013 | Feature
RWJF is a proud supporter of TEDMED's 20 Great Challenges of Health and Medicine and several of the innovative thinkers who have shared their ideas on the TEDMED stage.
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April 3, 2013 | Feature
Highlights from the Foundation's many stories and articles, enterprise-wide.
Pioneer Special Solicitation
March 25, 2013 | Program Result
The Pioneer Special Solicitation supports innovative projects that could lead to significant improvements in health and health care
Identifying Ways That Health Systems Can Deliver Better Care at a Lower Cost
March 25, 2013 | Program Result
Researchers at Innosight Institute conducted case studies of seven integrated health systems to find out how their staffs thought, acted, and innovated and to identify ways that other health systems could deliver better care at a lower cost.
Locating Family Mental Health Services in Shopping Malls and Schools
March 25, 2013 | Program Result
The UCLA Family Commons is a new model of preventive mental health care that provides nonstigmatized, cost-effective education and coaching to help families with children from infancy to adolescence address common childhood issues.
Advancing the Role of Rapid Learning in Mainstream Health Care
March 25, 2013 | Program Result
Developing and promoting a rapid-learning health system, in which health information in large databases is analyzed to improve health care - the work of Lynn Etheredge and the Health Insurance Reform Project at George Washington University.
Health Care Without Harm's Research Collaborative
March 25, 2013 | Program Result
From 2008 to 2012, Health Care Without Harm worked to embed best practices for environmental sustainability into health care and to create a business plan for Practice Greenhealth, which has hospital and business members.
Vital Signs: Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae
March 5, 2013 | Report
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae are recognized in health care settings as a cause of difficut to treat infections associated with high mortality.
Trends in Resistance to Carbapenems and Third-Generation Cephalosporins among Clinical Isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae in the United States, 1999-2010
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Increases in the prevalence of drug-resistant pneumonia present a major infection control challenge for public health.
The Changing Epidemiology of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the United States
February 28, 2013 | Journal Article
Seasonal and age variations seen in hospital MRSA infection rates.