What's Next Health: Daniel Kraft
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.
Personal Health Monitoring
You are now viewing 1 - 8 of 8 results
Sort results by:
The Future of Personal Health Monitoring
April 20, 2010 | Program Result
Researchers at the Center for Future Health explored the idea of using techniques from "machine health monitoring" to create real-time personal health-monitoring systems and developed a prototype system.
Can "Reality Mining" Improve Public Health and Medicine?
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?
What's Next Health: danah boyd
May 15, 2013 | Story/Video
The What's Next Health series features leading thinkers and visionaries. danah boyd—social scientist and high priestess of Internet friendship—challenge our assumptions and discusses what this means for health.
Advancing the Role of Rapid Learning in Mainstream Health Care
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.
Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records
January 1, 2009 | Report
This report from Project HeathDesign captures key learnings from the work of the program's first nine grantee teams, as well as from its efforts to develop a common platform and explore the ethical, legal and social issues tied to next-generation personal health records (PHRs).
Filling Major Knowledge Gaps about Health Care
January 27, 2011 | Program Result
The Health Insurance Reform Project advanced the development of a rapid learning health system - involving millions of health records in searchable national databases - to fill knowledge gaps about health care and develop better health care policies.
Medicare's Future
January 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This paper proposes a national initiative for Medicare patients with cancer. New legislative authority will be needed for comparative effectiveness research, quality measurement and payment reforms in Medicare.