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Jon Darer, chief innovation officer for the Division of Clinical Innovation at Geisinger Health System, discusses Geisinger's decision to roll out OpenNotes to most of its physicians and patients. Read his post and hear from Steve Downs, RWJF's chief technology and information officer, on what this means for health systems.
Extending the Cure has released a three-minute animated video that tells the story of how antibiotic-resistant “superbug” bacteria have become a serious public health threat that affects everyone. The video frames the problem uniquely: We must treat antibiotics as a natural resource that can be depleted with overuse, just like water, trees, and other resources on which we all depend.
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March 1, 2007 | Program Result Report
The Center for Aging Services Technologies developed a 10-minute video designed to illustrate the role that developing technology can play in improving quality of health care for aging Americans while reducing costs.
April 17, 2006 | Program Result Report
Since 1991, RWJF has funded 32 grants and contracts totaling about $7 million for projects related to genetics, genetic technologies and genetic services.
April 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The Echoing Green Foundation convened a focus group and reception during its annual Current Fellows Conference to provide RWJF staff with the opportunity to meet and learn from Fellows and alumni, who are social entrepreneurs and/or health care innovators.
December 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation designed, launched and evaluated Genetics & Your Practice Online, an information and continuing education program to help health professionals integrate genetics into their practices.
October 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research conducted a national survey on Americans' knowledge, attitudes, values and behavior regarding genetic testing and compared results to public opinion surveys from 1990.
July 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
From 2001 to 2003, a California-based research group, the Institute for the Future, used two exploratory grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to assess health care decision-makers' knowledge about new discoveries in genetics and to develop two proposals for a major educational initiative to inform health care leaders about the new discoveries, their clinical applications and the legal and ethical issues surrounding them. In 2002, RWJF turned down the two proposals partly bec...
June 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
From August 2003 through February 2004, Health Level Seven created an electronic health record system, as well as security standards and communications protocols.
March 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
Project staff at the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics created supplementary material to enhance the use of a CD-ROM to teach genomics and genetics to undergraduate science students.
December 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
Fred Friendly Seminars, in association with Thirteen/WNET, produced a three-part series called Our Genes/Our Choices, which the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) premiered nationally in January 2003 to some 2.3 million viewers.
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.