Think you know what text messages would work best to encourage Covid booster vaccination? Great opportunity below to contribute to this important research!

Very important and inspiring work from the amazing people at Penn's Nudge Unit. Some of the world's most significant behavioral work is coming from medicine, and Penn Med Nudge Unit is helping to lead the way. M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS Mitesh Patel Kevin Volpp pennmedicine.org/news/news-blog…

New RCT out in Nature Scientific Reports finds that #RemotePatientMonitoring data improved 30-day hospital readmission prediction when using #MachineLearning Wearables & Smartphones had similar results. nature.com/articles/s4159… Kevin Volpp Daniel Polsky Genevieve Kanter, PhD Chalanda Evans, MPH

Does Peer Comparison lower job satisfaction? 🧵 (short answer "It does not have to.") M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS Amol Navathe Mitesh Patel Mark Friedberg Jeff Linder 🇺🇦 Kevin Volpp Steve Persell x.com/jamanetworkope…

Health gamification with Mitesh Patel, our new Behavioral Design podcast episode just out! Find out when active choice beats a default, using endowed status in game levels, and the benefits of Monday fresh starts. Plus, the downsides of leaderboards. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/behav…

Big day for Chris Worsham & me Random Acts of Medicine from Doubleday is out! Great launch Harvard Book Store w/ amazing Emily Oster If you’re interested in how chance affects your health & what we can learn from it, the book is for you Please RT to give the book life!

Excited to announce more details on our agenda and speakers for the 2023 Nudges in Health Care Symposium! We also accepted 40 abstracts for presentation! There are few seats left. Register by September 1st here: healthcareinnovation.upenn.edu/2023-nudges-he…

Announcing my new Substack! For nearly a decade, I have been teaching the Wharton MBA Course on “The Digital Transformation of Health Care.” This year, more students enrolled than ever before!  This newsletter will follow alongside the Course. I will share key insights, expert

My latest Substack post is live! I explore the connection between Charles Darwin's theory of 'Survival of the Fittest' and digital transformation efforts in health care. Want to learn more? Check out the post here: miteshspatel.substack.com/p/what-charles…

Struggling to find your next #BigIdea to jumpstart your transformation journey? Check out my latest #Substack post for an innovative way to crowdsource opportunities while engaging the organization in your work! miteshspatel.substack.com/p/beyond-faste…

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How can we use #wearables and behavioral economics to improve access and participation in exercise therapies for #pvd pts? Check out: spr.ly/6013Zz2UR Alex Fanaroff Jay Giri Penn Center for Health Incentives+Behavioral Econ Penn LDI Mitesh Patel Penn Vascular Surgery Scott Damrauer

#CircACC24 #Simpub In the BE ACTIVE #RCT, gamification and loss-based financial incentives increased physical activity in high CV risk participants #AHAJournals Neel Chokshi, MD MBA Tamar Klaiman, PhD, MPH Alex Fanaroff ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…

Superstar physician scientist Alex Fanaroff shows us how to best get our patients moving with his late breaking presentation of the BE ACTIVE RCT! Now published in Circulation: ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…

Check out our NEJM AI publication detailing cost savings associated with a #machinelearning based “nudge” in clinical care, led by Tej A. Patel! W/ Chris Manz Manali Patel MD Penn Cancer Innovation Mitesh Patel

New @HACLab_UPenn paper in JMIR Publications: Can longitudinal #remote monitoring of symptoms & activity predict outcomes in #cancer? We show cross-sectional and longitudinal patterns in accelerometer-derived steps and text-based PROs strongly associated with hospitalization and/or death.

🚨New Paper in nature🚨 To simplify & speed up COVID vaxxes in mid-2021, the White House announced free Uber & @Lyft rides to vax sites. Great idea, right? We ran a HUGE experiment: Do free round-trip @Lyft rides to pharmacies boost vaccination? A🧵 nature.com/articles/s4158…

If you want to make things better for clinicians, sometimes it's more important to take things away rather than add things in! Mitesh Patel knows how to add #nudges and remove #sludge given his extensive work in #BehavioralEconomics. Check out this pod! buff.ly/4bO7vBS