Pioneer Pitch Day
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Pioneer Pitch Day is an opportunity for innovators with ideas for transforming health and health care to pitch their ideas live and in person to RWJF program staff and an esteemed group of judges.
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Exploring New Approaches to the Patient-Provider Encounter
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What if we fundamentally changed the nature of the doctor-patient visit, in order to improve patient understanding, provider efficiency and health outcomes? In other words, what if we “flipped the clinic”?
TEDMED's Great Challenges in Health and Medicine
June 14, 2013 | Program Results Report
TEDMED launched the Great Challenges Program to explore "20 of the most complex, multifaceted, and insufficiently understood challenges to the health and health care of Americans."
Pitch Us: The First-Ever Pioneer Pitch Day
August 13, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Do you have an idea that you want to pitch RWJF's Pioneer Portfolio? Tell us about it to be considered for our upcoming Pioneer Pitch Day event.
Identifying Ways That Health Systems Can Deliver Better Care at a Lower Cost
March 25, 2013 | Program Results Report
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.
Vote for the Most Influential Articles of the Year
December 7, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
It’s time for RWJF’s annual research poll! David C. Colby, vice president of Research and Evaluation, announced the 20 nominees for RWJF’s Most Influential Research Articles of 2011. We are honored that three Pioneer grantees made the list: Positive ...
Pioneer Grantees Named to Forbes' Top 30 Social Entrepreneurs List
December 2, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Forbes is known for its lists – America’s richest people, most expensive zip codes, most promising companies and more. This year, for the first time in its 94-year history, Forbes released a new list – the top 30 social entrepreneurs. We’re proud to ...
Measuring "Pioneer-ness" at TED
March 1, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
I'm thrilled to attend TED this week. In addition to being open to new ideas that might morph into fundable projects for RWJF, I’ll be expanding and refining my thoughts about measuring “pioneer-ness.” This means trying to distill a core definition ...
Join Pioneer at TED 2010 - Health's Future, Powered by You and Your Data
February 9, 2010 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
TED2010 – the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference – kicks off today and runs through the 13th in Long Beach, CA, with the Pioneer Portfolio resuming its role as an event sponsor. There’s an amazing lineup of speakers, and we’re especial ...
Primary Care on the Front Lines of Innovation
September 23, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Maryjoan Ladden writes about her site visits to innovative primary care practices, as part of The Primary Care Team: Learning From Effective Ambulatory Practices (LEAP) project.