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Project HealthDesign Overview
Project HealthDesign is a $10-million national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) created to stimulate innovation in personal health information technology. During the first round of funding, which received additional support from the California HealthCare Foundation, nine multidisciplinary teams created a range of tools that addressed specific but complex self-management tasks – from a cell-phone-enabled medication management system to alert children with cystic fibrosis when to take certain medicines, to a personal digital assistant that collects and supports self-reported pain and activity data. For information about the first-round grantee projects, see http://www.projecthealthdesign.org/projects.
In the second round of Project HealthDesign, RWJF will award a total of up to $2.4 million in grants to as many as five grantee teams. Teams will work to demonstrate how to improve the health and wellbeing of people with chronic disease by helping them capture, understand, interpret and act on information about the patterns of their everyday lives. During the two-year initiative, teams will work with clinical partners and patients with two or more chronic conditions to:
- Identify, capture and store several types of ODLs for their target patient population;
- Analyze and interpret ODL data to extract clinically useful information;
- Use this information to provide feedback to patients so that they can better manage their conditions and improve their health;
- Enable patients to share this information with their doctors, nurses and other members of their clinical care team;
- Present the information to clinicians in ways they can easily integrate into their clinical work flow; and
- Identify and explain opportunities and challenges associated with this overall approach to policymakers and clinical leaders
The program is supported by the Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio, which funds innovative projects that can lead to fundamental breakthroughs in the health and health care of all Americans.
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