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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Connecting for Health: Accelerating the Effective Use of Information Technology in Health Care
December 2, 2008 | Program Result Report
Connecting for Health works with more than 100 collaborators from government, health care, industry and consumer groups to establish policy guidelines and technical solutions to pave the way for nationwide electronic health information exchange.
Web Tool for Gathering Family Health History Performs Better Than Usual Methods
September 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
From 1998 through 2002, researchers at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center developed and pilot tested a Web-based tool for collecting family health history.
New Biomonitoring Technologies Available by 2016 May be One Way to Reduce Health Disparities Related to Cancer and Diabetes
April 1, 2008 | Program Result Report
A research team at the Institute for Alternative Futures analyzed applications of electronic biomonitoring technology, which can be used by patients and their physicians to measure and track indicators of health and disease.
Better Data = Better Health: Thomas Goetz Q&A
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A Conversation with Thomas Goetz, Executive Editor, WIRED Magazine.
Lessons from Project HealthDesign
July 23, 2012 | Journal Article
Strategies for Safeguarding Patient-Generated Health Information Created or Shared Through Mobile Devices.
Advancing the Field of Health Games
March 31, 2011 | Program Result Report
Progress and lessons learned from two programs that seek to advance the impact digital games can have on health.
Empowering Black Patients to Take a More Active Role in Their Health Care
February 18, 2010 | Program Result Report
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine tested whether using hand-held computers to answer questions about their health status and the reason for their current visit empowered African-American patients to take a more active role in their health care.
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.