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April 22, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Sometimes the best ideas come from unexpected sources – beyond technology, beyond research, beyond clinical trials. Sometimes, the future of health and health care lies somewhere else: in the people who will bring it about.
April 20, 2010 | Program Result
Researchers at the Center for Future Health explored the idea of using techniques from "machine health monitoring" to create real-time personal health-monitoring systems and developed a prototype system.
December 1, 2003 | Program Result
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care conducted a study to determine whether a system of identifying and counseling patients whose physical symptoms had a psychological basis could improve their health and satisfaction and reduce health care costs.
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.
January 30, 2013
News and upcoming events from the Pioneer Portfolio.
September 13, 2012 | Story
A Physician Faculty scholar creates guidelines for breast cancer patients struggling with the decision of a lifetime.
November 10, 2009 | Program Result
Can the emerging technology of reality mining - which involves inferring human relationships and behavior by measuring physical and social activity - be used to improve public health and medicine?
April 3, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
New research shows that physicians who exercise and don’t smoke are much more likely to recommend healthy lifestyle changes to their patients than their smoking or non-exercising colleagues. Researchers surveyed 1,000 primary care physicians and fou ...
January 1, 2009 | Report
This report from Project HeathDesign captures key learnings from the work of the program's first nine grantee teams, as well as from its efforts to develop a common platform and explore the ethical, legal and social issues tied to next-generation personal health records (PHRs).
January 27, 2011 | Program Result
The Health Insurance Reform Project advanced the development of a rapid learning health system - involving millions of health records in searchable national databases - to fill knowledge gaps about health care and develop better health care policies.