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COVID Watch saved lives weekly during first pandemic surge
Findings published in the Annals of Internal Medicine by our team show that patients enrolled in COVID Watch, Way to Health's algorithmically driven text messaging system to monitor outpatients with COVID-19, were 68 percent less likely to die than those not enrolled in the program.
Penn Medicine
What is implementation science, and why is it crucial to health care?
Gaps between research and practice happen in every setting and disease area. Implementation scientists aim to understand barriers and facilitators and design and test strategies to scale evidence-based practices to ensure that the promise of scientific discovery is realized.
Experts like Meghan Lane-Fall and Nudge Unit Director Rinad Beidas are leading this charge at Penn Medicine.
Penn Medicine News Blog
A digital strategy to support new mothers in the fourth trimester
In BMJ Innovations, members of our team describe how they applied design thinking principles rooted in a human-centered approach to test the safety and acceptability of Healing at Home, a bundle of services that addresses gaps in fourth-trimester care for new mothers and babies.
BMJ Innovations
October 2021 Month in Review
Each month, we round up news stories and publications about work happening across CHCI. Read the latest issue and subscribe to have the Month in Review sent directly to your inbox.
CHCI
A new frontier for patient experience measurement
In the Journal of Patient Experience, Anish Agarwal, David Asch, and Jeffrey Millstein discuss changes that can be enacted to improve patient experience measurement in health care.
The group argues that a hybrid model incorporating standard approaches and digital surveying would allow health systems to conduct peer comparison and explore "a new frontier of patient engagement."
Journal of Patient Experience
The importance of modernizing telemedicine regulations
In an opinion piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Krisda Chaiyachati and Eric Bressman discuss the regulatory hurdles impeding the growth of telemedicine and the need for licensing laws to be "permanently modernized" to reduce the burden on patients and providers and improve access to health care.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
