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June 10, 2013 | Program Result Report
The Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project promotes performance measurement as a tool to increase the transparency and accountability of the health care system, and advocates for more input from health care consumers and purchasers.
June 4, 2013 | Journal Article
This article summarizes California’s Hospital Fair Pricing Act, which was passed in 2006 with the intent of protecting low-income uninsured patients from having to pay hospitals’ full billed charges.
June 4, 2013 | Journal Article
Aligning Forces for Quality is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's signature effort to improve the overall quality of health care in targeted communities, reduce racial and ethnic disparities in care, and provide models for national reform.
May 21, 2013 | Report
In this issue paper, the authors give an overview of performance measurement in U.S. health care, and then make seven policy recommendations aimed at improving the performance measurement enterprise.
May 16, 2013 | Journal Article
This study suggests that increasing the scope of nurse practitioners’ duties remains controversial.
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.
May 15, 2013 | Story/Video/Infographic
The What's Next Health series features leading thinkers and visionaries. danah boyd—social scientist and high priestess of Internet friendship—challenges our assumptions and discusses what this means for health.
May 10, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
A new series of videos features leaders from Action Coalitions discussing their work and successes, and some of the unique challenges and opportunities they’ve faced.
May 2, 2013 | Program Result Report
Scholars in Health Policy Research builds a field of creative thinkers in the field of health policy. Recent graduates of PhD programs in economics, political science, and sociology study health policy at one of three universities for two years.
May 2, 2013 | Story
Former RWJF Scholar Dalton Conley, PhD, brings sociology, economics, and genomics to bear in research on the determinants of economic opportunity.