Weight Management

Kaiser, HealthMedia to study effectiveness of tailored online weight management

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, October 27th, 2003

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has given nearly $500,000 to fund a project by Kaiser Permanente's Care Management Institute (KP-CMI) and HealthMedia, Inc., that studies the effectiveness of a "tailored" online weight-management program.

HealthMedia, Inc., a behavioral-science-technology company, was awarded the $496,264 grant from RWJF's Health e-Technologies Initiative, a national program for the advancement of interactive technologies to improve health behavior and disease management.

In response to the nation's overweight and obesity epidemic, KP-CMI is dedicated to finding creative new ways of bringing effective weight-management...

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Source: Obesity and Diabetes Week (2003-10-27)

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