“At RWJF, we are committed to improving our country’s healthcare system in order to achieve better outcomes for everyone,” wrote Emmy Ganos, PhD, a program officer with the foundation. “This includes ensuring that individuals and families have the tools and information they need to make informed decisions about their health and care, and that healthcare professionals have the tools they need to deliver equitable, patient-centered, high-value care.”
To address this issue, RWJF will fund projects that will help develop standards and best practices for incorporating dimensions of cost and value into shared decision-making.
The first call for proposals is worth up to $1 million and is reserved for projects that explore how to optimize cost-of-care conversations for vulnerable patient populations, such as racial and ethnic minorities, low-income populations, the newly insured and populations for whom English is not a primary language.
The second call for proposals is worth $900,000 and is reserved for studies on how to best incorporate these conversations into the clinical workflow, or how to “make the right thing the easy thing to do,” according to Dr. Ganos.
The submission deadline for both proposals is July 27.
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