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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 ...
August 29, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
We have a few questions for you. Every day there are people who are finding new ways and developing new technologies to observe or collect information about themselves that has the power to improve health. For example, Pioneer’s Project HealthDesign ...
May 3, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
On Wednesday, Pioneer team members Brian Quinn and Al Shar will be attending Stanford University’s two-day Mobile Health 2011: What Really Works conference (Pioneer is also a sponsor of the event). This event, which is being led by Stanford’s B.J. F ...
January 30, 2013 | National Program
Advancing effectiveness of interactive games for health.
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 31, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
RWJF's Christine Nieves shares what she's looking forward to at this year's Datapalooza conference.
Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Team members, grantees, and guests discuss breakthrough ideas that will allow us to move toward solving challenges in health care.
April 22, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Sometimes the best ideas come from unexpected sources – beyond technology, beyond research, beyond clinical trials. Sometimes, the future of health and health care lies somewhere else: in the people who will bring it about.
January 30, 2013 | National Program/Grant/Grantee
Rethinking the power and potential of personal health records.
January 30, 2013 | Grantee
Promoting self-knowledge through self-tracking.