The health care consumer confidence index is compiled by the nonpartisan Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a philanthropic organization that supports health care reform.
New grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will help researchers explore such topics as how motion-based games may help patients with stroke progress faster in physical therapy.
The project, which will seek input from nearly all of America's hospitals, is being funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Substance Abuse Policy Research Program (SAPRP).
There are "vast differences" in the way local and regional healthcare markets use information technology, publicly reported performance measurements, and other key initiatives that drive improvements in the care of people with chronic illnesses, according to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Center for Health Improvement (CHI).
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded a $300,000 grant to the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) with the goal of creating a system that measures physician competency as a subspecialty of applied informatics.
