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Jun 30 2016
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Shivan Mehta Comments on Text Messaging Study

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Source: The Wall Street Journal, June 30, 2016 Shivan Mehta, Associate Chief Innovation Officer at the Center for Healthcare Innovation, commented on a study conducted in Australia that suggests text messages could reduce one’s odds of a second heart attack. Mehta noted that the length of the Australian study was important because earlier studies have been conducted over a period of three months or less and the first six months after a heart attack are a high-risk period during which new health habits are formed. He also commented that the Australian study targeted multiple risk factors concurrently—smoking, exercise, diet and general cardiovascular awareness, rather…

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Jun 30 2016
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CHIBE and CHOP Partner to Address Juvenile Diabetes through Way to Health Platform

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Source: Bench to Bedside (CHOP), June/July 2016 Researchers from CHIBE and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) are collaborating with the goal of improving teens’ glycemic control through behavioral economics. Their research has been made possible through the use of CHIBE’s innovative Way to Health platform. CHOP reports: “The platform automates many of the research functions necessary to perform these sorts of behavioral economic randomized controlled trials using devices such as wireless activity trackers and other mobile health applications.”

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Jun 22 2016
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Financial Value of Wearable Devices

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Source: Money Magazine, June 22, 2016 Money Magazine’s Get Healthy, Get Wealthy issue features Kevin Volpp’s research on the role wearable fitness devices play in motivating people to start or improve an exercise routine. Wearable devices can be helpful if they spark an exercise habit, Volpp says, but “once the novelty wears off, many people stop using them.”

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Jun 17 2016
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“Traffic-light” and Numeric Calorie Labels Cut Calorie Consumption

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Sources: Penn Medicine News, US News & World Report, Huffington Post, CBS Philly, Tech Times, New Hampshire Voice, June 17, 2016 A recent study published in the the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing by CHIBE Postdoctoral Fellow Eric VanEpps and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, involving online workplace lunch orders, found that each of three types of calorie labeling conditions – numbers alone, traffic lights alone, or both labels together – reduced calories ordered by about 10 percent, compared to orders involving no calorie labels. “The similar effects of traffic light and numeric labeling suggests to us that consumers are making decisions based more on which choices…

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Jun 14 2016
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Volpp and Asch Receive AcademyHealth Article of the Year Award for "Effect of Financial Incentives on Lipid Levels"

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Source: AcademyHealth, June 14, 2016 AcademyHealth Announced their 2016 Annual Research Meeting Award Recipients. Kevin Volpp and David Asch received the Article-of-the-Year Award for “Effect of Financial Incentives to Physicians, Patients, or Both on Lipid Levels: A Randomized Clinical Trial.” The Article-of-the-Year Award recognizes the best scientific work that the fields of health services research and health policy have produced and published during the previous calendar year. The award-winning article provides new insights into the delivery of health care and advances the knowledge of the field.

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Jun 02 2016
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Nudging Physicians Toward Value: Incentives in the Era of MACRA-Economics

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Source: Commonwealth Fund, June 2, 2016 On June 2, 2016, The Commonwealth Fund, Healthcare: the Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation, and The University of Pennsylvania hosted an event at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C., that explored how leading policymakers, health system executives, and payers are crafting innovative incentive programs to support value-based models of care. The event, MACRA-Economics: Nudging Physicians Toward Value, focused on programs at three regional health systems—Advocate Healthcare in Chicago, Baptist Health System in San Antonio, and Partners HealthCare in Boston—and consider how insights from behavioral economics are shaping new models of provider incentives. Speakers from Penn were Ezekiel Emanuel,…

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May 22 2016
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Making End-of-life Care More Scientific

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Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, May 22, 2016 The Philadelphia Inquirer featured an article on the FIELDS program, highlighting their current studies and recent publications. FIELDS is ” the country’s only program devoted to applying the principles of behavioral economics, in essence the study of how people make choices, to end-of-life care,” says director Scott Halpern.

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May 17 2016
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CHIBE Partners with ideas42 for "Behavioral Insights for Health Innovation" Initiative

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Sources: ideas42, Yahoo.com, May 17, 2016 The “Behavioral Insights for Health Innovation” (BIHI) initiative between CHIBE and nonprofit behavioral science lab ideas42 will give practitioners and policymakers tools to apply powerful and cost-effective solutions inspired by behavioral science, putting BIHI at the forefront of America’s drive for low-cost innovation and improved health outcomes. The new collaboration will also include a spotlight series of pieces taking a closer look at behavioral solutions to pressing challenges and issues that our healthcare system faces, ranging from over-prescription of pharmaceuticals to smoking cessation to diabetes prevention. This initiative is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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May 11 2016
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Volpp, Asch and Halpern Lead New ‘NEJM Catalyst’ Advisory Committee

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Source: LDI News, May 11, 2016 NEJM Catalyst has appointed national “Lead Advisors” and a committee of “Thought Leaders” in three areas of healthcare delivery. Kevin Volpp was chosen as the Lead Advisor for the Patient Engagement core and David Asch and Scott Halpern were chosen as two of the seven Thought Leaders. The core participated in the NEJM Catalyst Event Patient Engagement: Behavioral Strategies for Better Health at the University of Pennsylvania on February 25, 2016.

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May 09 2016
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Changing EHR Default Options Increases Generic Prescribing

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Source: Medical Express, May 9, 2016  A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, led by Mitesh Patel, found that a change to prescription default options in electronic medical records immediately increased generic prescribing rates from 75 percent to 98 percent. Patel commented “Our results demonstrate that default options are a powerful tool for influencing physician behaviors but that they have to be well-designed to achieve the intended goals.”

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