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March 4, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Pioneer grantee Open mHealth, as well as the Heritage Provider Network and University of California, Los Angeles, have partnered to create the Heritage Open mHealth Challenge.
January 3, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Before retiring, Al Shar, vice president and senior program officer, reflected on his time with Pioneer and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
December 6, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Interview with Al Shar talks about his vision for mobile health and the role the Foundation can play moving forward.
August 9, 2012 | Journal Article
Mobile phones, and smartphones in particular, have the potential to support chronic disease prevention and management in daily life. For example, mobile health (mHealth) applications can help people manage their diabetes, assist in smoking cessation ...
March 13, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Hack-a-Thon for "Unmentionable" Issues in Adolescent Health
December 21, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
In my recent blog post summarizing December’s mHealth Summit, I began by saying that the mHealth organizers must have been pleased with the conference, given its growth in attendance and engagement. We were equally pleased with RWJF and Pioneer’s pr ...
December 16, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
I'm sure that the organizers of this year's mHealth Summit were more than pleased. There were more than 3,600 people in attendance, up 1,200 from last year. The exhibit floor was larger and more complex, rivaling some trade shows. There were tracks ...
November 29, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
The December 5-7 mHealth Summit is approaching and I’m pleased and excited to be moderating the special session: What I Really Need from mHealth: Five Perspectives on Value. Pioneer has been involved with multiple aspects of mHealth since very early ...
November 22, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Sometimes things just come together. We funded the first mHealth Summit because it was interesting and pioneering, and it seemed to have a connection to a few of our Project HealthDesign grants. Then came our involvement with and support of Quantifi ...
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 ...