Robert Wood Johnson Foundation news and information

Here's a sobering thought: Nearly 40% of all children in the U.S. are eligible for the Children's Health Insurance Program, which provides automatic healthcare coverage for the poor. That means 4 in 10 kids in the U.S. are growing up in poverty or near-poverty.
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has joined the entities urging the CMS to publish the Medicare earnings and de-identified clinical data of individual physicians. But the foundation stopped short of calling for widespread public release to any interested party.
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Attorneys general from 13 Republican-led states that have refused to operate their own health insurance exchanges have raised concerns about the security of enrollees' personal information.
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Four charitable foundations in healthcare and one in journalism will participate in a $2 million contest to spark innovative uses of healthcare data.
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KINGSPORT, Tenn.—With the help of six employers in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia, Wellmont Health System in Kingsport introduced a free community health initiative known as Wellmont LiveWell. Eastman Chemical Co., Food City, Alpha Natural Resources, Domtar Corp.,...
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The digital divide is still there among rural providers but it appears to be closing, according to a report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and new research it references.
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Building on its success from the past 10 years, Project ECHO has established a new national institute to replicate its model of using “telementoring” to improve the expertise of primary-care clinicians so they can better serve patients with chronic conditions in underserved areas.
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A major foundation wants software developers to invent tools to help consumers and others better understand Medicare data comparing hospital prices.
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Health insurance provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act could significantly boost the number of self-employed individuals next year, according to findings released last week from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Much has changed in the years since the Institute of Medicine published To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, companion reports released in 1999 and 2001 that sounded the alarm about high rates of adverse events and the urgent need to adopt proven best practices in healthcare.
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