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May 16, 2012 | Program Result
In July 2011, O'Reilly Media convened a two-day meeting of leaders in health care and technology to generate new ideas and collaborations on health and health care. The meeting focused on brainstorming and group problem solving.
July 15, 2010 | Program Result
Youth Radio, an Oakland, Calif., youth development and media organization, developed a sports and fitness teaching curriculum for low-income men, primarily those of color.
November 10, 2010 | Program Result
Researchers and community leaders across the country are using the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey (NEMS) widely, and the data they have gathered, in some cases, has helped influence stores and restaurants to improve their food choices.
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?
October 12, 2009 | Program Result
The Vermont Department of Mental Health project (ID# 020609) developed and tested software that provides graphic displays of patients' medication histories.
September 1, 2003 | Program Result
A software development firm specializing in public health software studied the potential design for a centralized information system that would allow public health officials to combine data from separate databases holding a community's public health information.
June 25, 2012 | Program Result
Improving the Science of Continuous Quality Improvement Program and Evaluation funded nine teams of researchers to address a core question within health care environments: "How will we know that change is an improvement?"
September 1, 2011 | Program Result
To combat isolation and loneliness among vulnerable individuals, including the disabled and frail elderly, the PLAN Institute for Caring Citizenship and Tyze Personal Networks promoted Web-based social support networks called Tyze.
April 18, 2011 | Program Result
Ten hospitals throughout the country joined a collaborative learning network, developed strategies to improve the quality and accessibility of their language services, and tested them using five standardized performance improvement measures.
June 20, 2011 | Program Result
In 2004, a group of regional collaboratives established the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) to accelerate the formation and effectiveness of such collaboratives across the country.