Health ‘Pioneers’ Are Bloggers, Too

We’ve been blogging a lot lately about the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and its support for the Games for Health project. But we’re not the only ones. The folks at RWJF have their own blog, “Pioneering Ideas,” which is an ongoing discussion about “breakthrough ideas in health and health care” by staff at the foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio.

The goal of the blog is to "cultivate new ideas and foster innovative thinking" and, as a result, it makes for interesting reading. Recent Pioneer blog posts include a round-up of the GFH conference, which featured a discussion of the Fold It!, a new computer game enabling players to contribute to scientific research for vaccines and cures, and an interview with Lynn Etheredge, whose research shows that “rapid learning” and “comparative effectiveness” might spark dramatic improvements in the future of health and health care systems management.

Other Pioneer posts, such as a discussion of a recent study that shows how the analysis of social networks (particularly in the areas of obesity and smoking cessation) opens up a whole new way of exploring health behavior, make this a must-read blog for anyone interested in innovative solutions to health and health care.