What's Next Health: Daniel Kraft
May 15, 2013 | Story/Video
The What's Next Health series features leading thinkers and visionaries. Executive director of FutureMed, Daniel Kraft, MD, discusses approaches to "escape velocity" in health care.
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What's Next Health: danah boyd
May 15, 2013 | Story/Video
The What's Next Health series features leading thinkers and visionaries. danah boyd—social scientist and high priestess of Internet friendship—challenge our assumptions and discusses what this means for health.
AF4Q Games to Generate Data Challenge
April 4, 2013 | Story
Five finalist teams were announced at the conclusion of Phase I of AF4Q's Game Challenge, a competition to create game applications that generate useful health care quality data to improve health and health care.
Shedding Light on OpenNotes
April 1, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
OpenNotes is an effort to convince patients, families, and clinicians to share openly any and, most often, all material that pertains to a patient’s care. The goal is to improve communication and help patients engage more actively in their care.
RWJF Awards $1.9 Million Grant to PatientsLikeMe to Create World’s First Open Research Platform to Develop Patient-Centered Health Outcome Measurements
February 25, 2013 | News Release
PatientsLikeMe has been awarded a $1.9 million grant from RWJF to create the world's first open-participation research platform for the development of patient-centered health outcome measures.
PatientsLikeMe Project Pioneers Use of Outcomes Data That Are Meaningful To Patients
February 25, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Jamie Heywood, co-founder of PatientsLikeMe, and Paul Tarini, senior program officer of the Pioneer Team at RWJF, share their views on creating an open-access platform to develop measures that matter to patients.
PatientsLikeMe
February 25, 2013 | Grantee
PatientsLikeMe is an established network for patients who want to monitor their health, improve their outcomes, and contribute to medical research and discovery.
Advanced Cognitive Training for Breast Cancer Survivors
October 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Memory training and speed-of-processing training show promise for treating cognitive concerns in breast cancer survivors.
Lessons from Project HealthDesign
July 23, 2012 | Journal Article
Strategies for Safeguarding Patient-Generated Health Information Created or Shared Through Mobile Devices.
An Intervention to Improve Care and Reduce Costs for High-Risk Patients with Frequent Hospital Admissions
October 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This pilot study demonstrates an intervention that may be effective in reducing hospitalizations and Medicaid costs, especially among high-risk patient groups.