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The Healthy Nudge
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Online Courses in Health Care Innovation
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Reciprocal Giving Decays with Time
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CHIBE affiliated faculty
Judd Kessler, PhD and
Katherine Milkman, PhD were co-authors in a recent
PNAS
field study examining the impact of time on charitable donations by former patients to a hospital system where they had been treated. The study found that donation rates declined as the time separating a patient’s hospital visit and solicitation increased.
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What is the role of
choice architecture in physician communication
and how can we measure competency in this area?
Joanna Hart, MD, MSHP
explores these questions in her ongoing work with the FIELDS Program.
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03/19 @ Noon
Rubenstein Auditorium
Smilow Center for Translational Research
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Key to Reducing Opioid Prescribing: Default to Fewer Pills
Innovation is Much More Than Just Using New Tech
Need a Medical Procedure? Pick the Right Provider and Get Cash Back
Taking Steps to Improve Activity-Tracking Results
It’s All About Timing: How Nonprofits Can Increase Charitable Donations
Two States Question Aetna's Prior-Authorization Practices Amid CVS Merger
Why Amazon Pays Some of Its Workers to Quit
Employee Wellness: Montco Company Has an App for That
Financial Shortcuts to Avoid and Use When Saving and Investing for Retirement
Recent Study Looks at How Consumers Use Wearables That Generate Biometric Data
People Don't Actually Know Themselves Very Well
CMS is Leading the Way Toward Bundled Payments. Should It Be?
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Mohan Balachandran currently leads the
Way to Health team at CHIBE. Way to Health is a web-based platform that automates many of the research functions necessary for conducting randomized controlled trials of behavioral interventions.
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What is your role at Way to Health and what do you find most rewarding about your work?
My responsibility is to make sure Way To Health provides the best possible product and service to researchers here at Penn and beyond. I also work closely with our leadership, the team (6 engineers and 2 operations staff) and our customers (researchers, innovation teams, clinicians) to define our product direction and strategy. I've worked in large companies and founded startups but what I find most rewarding is that we're helping discover and create evidence-based guidelines to engage patients in their health, which I honestly believe is the "blockbuster drug of the 21st century."
What kinds of projects does Way to Health play a part in?
Firstly, I must say that the team at W2H is amazing. We're currently supporting
45 studies on the platform with a small team. One study that I find very innovative is the cryptically named m.SGrow, with principal investigator Jonathan Mitchell. The study aims to test the link between sleep and obesity in 8-9 year-old children, and also build a behavioral intervention aimed at improving sleep with overweight/obese children. The study is interesting not only because of the patient population and the problem that it's addressing but also because it incorporates aspects of behavioral economics, gamification, activity tracking and vigilance tracking.
What's next for Way to Health?
Looking ahead, we expect to continue to add capabilities such as making patient engagement more interactive and natural language-based, closer integration with Epic, additional device integrations and, most importantly, we'll be focusing on increasing platform reliability and testing speed.
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