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.
Need Innovative Health Solutions? Ask a Kid
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.
Advancing the Role of Rapid Learning in Mainstream Health Care
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.
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January 30, 2013
News and upcoming events from the Pioneer Portfolio.
Helping Cancer Patients Choose the Most Effective Treatment
September 13, 2012 | Story
A Physician Faculty scholar creates guidelines for breast cancer patients struggling with the decision of a lifetime.
Healthy Doctors Better Able to Discuss Healthy Lifestyles with Patients
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 ...
Filling Major Knowledge Gaps about Health Care
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.
The Future of Personal Health Monitoring
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.
Can "Reality Mining" Improve Public Health and Medicine?
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?