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Report from the 2023 Penn Medicine Nudges in Health Care Symposium

Nudge Science at the Crossroads and the Obstacles it Faces

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Auditorium view of the 2023 Nudges in Health Care Symposium
At the podium in the first panel discussion of the 2023 University of Pennsylvania Nudges in Health Care Symposium in the Penn Medicine Rubenstein Auditorium was LDI Senior Fellow Katherine Courtright, MD, MSHP. A Core Faculty Member of the Perelman School of Medicine Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center, her presentation was entitled “Prediction Models, Nudges, and Pragmatic Trials to Improve Inpatient Palliative Care Delivery: Implementation Lessons.” The two-day behavioral science event drew more than 200 researchers and health system managers from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Israel, and Saudi Arabia. (Photo: Hoag Levins)
A six-minute excerpt from the keynote presentation by LDI Senior Fellow Kit Delgado, MD, MS, the new Director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit.
A six-minute excerpt from the keynote presentation by LDI Senior Fellow Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, Director of the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.
Raina Merchant, MD, moderates a Nudges in Health Care Symposium panel.
LDI Senior Fellow, Associate Vice President and Chief Transformation Office at Penn Medicine, and Director of the Penn Medicine Center for Digital Health, Raina Merchant, MD, MSHP, was the moderator of a panel discussion entitled “Toward Learning, Behaviorally Informed Organizations: Lessons and Innovations from Health Care Nudge Units.” Speaking is panelist Mark Friedberg, MD, MPP, Senior Vice President of Performance Measurement and Improvement at Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Massachusetts. (click images for larger)
Katherine Courtright, MD, and Meghan Lane-Fall lead a Workshop on implementation science.
LDI Senior Fellows Katherine Courtright, MD, MSHP, and Meghan Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP, led a workshop entitled, “Developing Rigorous Evidence on the Impact of Nudges: Pragmatic and Hybrid Implementation-Effectiveness Trial Designs.” Lane Fall is the Executive Director of the Penn Implementation Science Center (PISCE). Courtright is a Core Faculty Member at the Penn Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center.
David Asch, MD, at the podium discussing behavioral science and nudge units in health care.
David Asch, MD, MBA, former LDI Executive Director and current Senior Vice Dean for Strategic Initiatives in the Perelman School of Medicine spoke of the rise of behavioral science and nudge units in health care.
University of Pennsylvania Health System CEO Kevin Mahoney on stage at a Nudges in Health Care Symposium.
Kevin Mahoney, MBA, LDI Senior Fellow and Chief Executive Officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. “What we are going to be talking about over these next two days is everything we can do to improve the delivery of health care as well as provider and clinician well-being.” Mahoney played a major role in Penn Medicine’s move to be the first health system to establish and internal behavioral science research unit.
Mitesh Patel, MD, on stage.
Appearing in something of a homecoming was Mitesh Patel, MD, MBA, former LDI Senior Fellow and Founding Director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit in 2016. Patel is now Vice President of Clinical Transformation and National Lead for Behavioral Insights at Ascension Health, the largest non-profit health system in the U.S.
Elizabeth Linos, PhD, Director of the People Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Elizabeth Linos, PhD, Faculty Director of the People Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, spoke of her research in nudge concepts and clinician burnout. She noted that 66% of physician mothers experience sexual harassment at work and subsequently experience a jump in emotional exhaustion equivalent in magnitude to working an additional 22 hours of work per week.
Preparing poster displays at the 2023 Nudges in Health Care Symposium.

The Symposium poster session included 32 posts across a broad range of behavioral science topics from “Behaviorally Informed Text-Based Nudges for COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in Veterans,” to “Implementation of Population Health Outreach to Increase Breast Cancer Screening Participation,” and “Development of a Nudge to Support Employee Wellness After a Patient Suicide Attempt,” to “Increasing the Utilization of Well-Baby Screening in Primary Health Care Centers Using Two Nudging Techniques.”
LDI Senior Fellow Rebecca Hamm, MD, MSCE, Assistant Professor in the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine discussed her poster with
Craig Joseph, MD, Chief Medical Office of Nordic Consulting Partners, a health care IT consulting company headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. The poster project is entitled “Increasing Utilization of a Calculator for Cesarean Risk During Labor Induction, an Evidence-Based Tool for Reducing Maternal Morbidity in Labor and Delivery.”
Chalanda Evans, MPH, Director of Health Equity in Penn Medicine's Center for Digital Health.
Chalanda Evans, MPH, Assistant Director of Health Equity at Penn Medicine’s Center for Digital Health explains her poster entitled, “Lift Every Voice: Leveraging the Power of Stories to Catalyze Anti-Racism Action.”
Paula Voorheis, PhD, of the University of Toronto Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation.
Paula Voorheis, PhD, from the University of Toronto Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation was one of a several poster presenters from other countries. Her research was entitled, “”Behavioral Design Thinking: A Novel Approach to Integrating Behavioral Science and Design Thinking to Develop mHealth Interventions.”

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Hoag Levins

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