personal health record funding

Hi all,

This sounds like a very interesting funding opportunity, one that  
would benefit from info design expertise.

Cheers,
Valerie Riedel
Science Writer
Energetics Incorporated

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http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_PHD2009.pdf

Purpose
Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal  
Health
Records is a $10-million national program funded through the Robert  
Wood Johnson
Foundation’s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio. In this second round of  
funding, Project
HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how information about  
patterns of everyday
living can be collected and interpreted such that patients can take  
action and clinicians
can integrate new insights into clinical care processes.

Eligibility Criteria
Applicants may be either public entities, nonprofit organizations that  
are tax-exempt
under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and are not  
private foundations
as defined under Section 509(a), or for-profit entities.

Project HealthDesign:Rethinking the Power and Potential
of Personal Health Records is a $10-million national
program funded through the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation’s (RWJF) Pioneer Portfolio, which
supports innovative ideas that can lead to significant
breakthroughs in the future of health and health
care. In this second round of funding, Project
HealthDesign will seek to test whether and how
information about patterns of everyday living can be
collected and interpreted such that patients can take
action and clinicians can integrate new insights into
clinical care processes.

Specific objectives of the program include:

broadening the understanding of health in everyday  living by creating  
innovative, unobtrusive ways to
capture a broad variety of ODLs and informative
ways to interpret them;

determining the value of making these observations available to  
clinical practitioners in ways that are
meaningful but not burdensome;

expanding regulatory and policy considerations to facilitate the  
sharing of and protection for personal
health information generated outside of care settings
and its integration into clinical practice; and

stimulating industry investment in the technical
infrastructure, products and services needed to
manage personal health information.


Project HealthDesign will award up to five grantee
teams up to $480,000 each for 24-month grants.
Grantees will work with a target patient population
to demonstrate the capture, storage and integration
of ODLs into clinical care and self-management
processes. Specifically, each grantee team will design,
develop, implement and evaluate solutions that:

capture and store several types of ODLs for their target population;

analyze and interpret the data from these ODLs to
extract clinically useful information;

use this information to provide feedback to
individuals so that they can take actions to manage
their conditions and improve their health;

enable individuals to share this information with their
clinical care teams;

present the information to clinicians and integrate it into clinical  
work flows; and

identify and illuminate the policy and practice challenges associated  
with the overall approach.





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