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March 4, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Pioneer grantee Open mHealth, as well as the Heritage Provider Network and University of California, Los Angeles, have partnered to create the Heritage Open mHealth Challenge.
January 3, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Before retiring, Al Shar, vice president and senior program officer, reflected on his time with Pioneer and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
December 6, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Interview with Al Shar talks about his vision for mobile health and the role the Foundation can play moving forward.
August 9, 2012 | Journal Article
Mobile phones, and smartphones in particular, have the potential to support chronic disease prevention and management in daily life. For example, mobile health (mHealth) applications can help people manage their diabetes, assist in smoking cessation ...
March 13, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Hack-a-Thon for "Unmentionable" Issues in Adolescent Health
December 28, 2011 | New Public Health Post
The recent mHealth Summit simultaneously showcased new mobile health apps and technologies, while presenters at workshops questioned just how ready the technology and the medical community are for each other. A new collaborative article by NPR and K ...
December 21, 2011 | New Public Health Post
If you’re tweeting this holiday season, some public health experts think tweets about flu shots, flu outbreaks and even flu misinformation (such as the benefit of antibiotics for the flu; there is none) could go a long way toward helping track and f ...
December 21, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
In my recent blog post summarizing December’s mHealth Summit, I began by saying that the mHealth organizers must have been pleased with the conference, given its growth in attendance and engagement. We were equally pleased with RWJF and Pioneer’s pr ...
December 19, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Organizers of the recent mHealth Summit are already planning for next year’s meeting, while attendees are processing what they heard, saw, touched and downloaded. For both, and for anyone interested in mHealth who didn’t make it to this year’s meeti ...
December 16, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
I'm sure that the organizers of this year's mHealth Summit were more than pleased. There were more than 3,600 people in attendance, up 1,200 from last year. The exhibit floor was larger and more complex, rivaling some trade shows. There were tracks ...