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June 14, 2012 | Journal Article
This study examines the use of exergames, (i.e., video games that require gross motor skills), to combat growing adolescent obesity rates. It is the first study to demonstrate weight loss from exergame play. Recruited from an urban public high schoo ...
May 11, 2011 | Story
To join the conversation about the conference, follow the Twitter hashtag #G4H11 and visit the Pioneering Ideas blog during the week of May 16 for event news and highlights.
March 31, 2011 | Program Result
Progress and lessons learned from two programs that seek to advance the impact digital games can have on health.
October 7, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
In August, Pioneer's Al Shar shared his takeaways from the 2011 mHealth Evidence Workshop that we sponsored along with NIH, NSF and the McKesson Foundation. In that post, Al mentioned that the participants were eagerly putting together a statement o ...
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.
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Patients with online personal health records want to control access to their information in precise, detailed ways. But the system must be responsive and no more complex than necessary to provide. This paper details one data system method.
November 15, 2009 | Book
The Power and Potential of Personal Health Records
December 15, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Robert Kaplan, PhD, the director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the National Institutes of Health was a recent keynote speaker at the mHealth Summit that focused on new mobile technologies for tracking and potentially improving h ...
June 8, 2006 | Story
The potential: A powerful shift is taking place in media as video and computer gaming has become the world's fastest growing media form; more than half of all North American households purchased at least one video game in 2004. The proposal: Apply t ...
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A Conversation with Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.