Leveraging photos to learn about patient experience, developing antiracist praxis, and more

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Welcome to the Center for Health Care Innovation's Month in Review. Each month, we feature news stories and publications about work happening at the Acceleration Lab, Center for Digital Health, Nudge Unit, and Way to Health. Subscribe to have our Month in Review newsletter sent directly to your inbox.

TOP STORIES

Leveraging photo-elicitation to learn about patient experience
Laura Sinko, Samira Rajabi, Alyssa Sinko, and Raina Merchant shed light on the lifestyle changes and emotional experiences of individuals with compromised immune systems during the early months of the pandemic in the Journal of Community Psychology. The team collected input for this study via online photo-elicitation.

COVID Watch paper named to best of 2021 list
The Annals of Internal Medicine editorial team named our article "Comparative Effectiveness of an Automated Text Messaging Service for Monitoring COVID-19 at Home" to their best of 2021 list. One of the piece's key findings was that patients enrolled in COVID Watch – an algorithmically driven text messaging system designed to monitor outpatients with COVID-19 – were 68 percent less likely to die than those not using the program.

Weaving antiracism praxis into cardiovascular fellowship training
Despite advances in the science of medicine, Black patients in the United States are still twice as likely to die from cardiovascular disease than White patients. In the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Sri Adusumalli, Lauren Eberly, and Howard Julien proposed a new paradigm for fellowship training that prioritizes antiracism praxis to reduce inequities in cardiovascular care and outcomes.

Save the date for the Nudges in Health Care Symposium
Nudge Unit leadership announced that the next Nudges in Health Care Symposium will be held virtually on October 14, 2022. Individuals interested in attending should subscribe to receive updates about registration and other important milestones by completing this form and share suggestions for speakers and topics here.

OPPORTUNITIES

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ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS

Hierarchy of qualities in global health partnerships: a path towards equity and sustainability BMJ Global Health
Implementation science in pediatric oncology: A narrative review and future directions Pediatric Blood & Cancer
Clinician Decisions After Notification of Elevated Blood Pressure Measurements From Patients in a Remote Monitoring Program JAMA Network Open
Association of Telemedicine with Primary Care Appointment Access After Hospital Discharge Journal of General Internal Medicine
Exploring Why Financial Incentives Fail to Affect At-home Colorectal Cancer Screening: a Mixed Methods Study Journal of General Internal Medicine
Hospital Performance for Gastrointestinal Bleeding Mortality, Length of Stay, and Complication Rates in the USA Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Analysis of Specialist and Patient Perspectives on Strategies to Improve Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Among Persons With Psoriatic Disease JAMA Dermatology
Consumer Willingness to Share Personal Digital Information for Health-Related Uses JAMA Network Open

ADDITIONAL NEWS COVERAGE

Wearables, Machine Learning Can Predict Near-Term Blood Sugar Control in Prediabetes Patients Penn Medicine News Blog
One year, 350,000 doses later: What Penn Medicine’s vaccine rollout taught it about equity WHYY
Activity data from wearables could help monitor blood sugar levels, study indicates The Verge
Johns Hopkins study names health systems that provide the most 'unnecessary' care Modern Healthcare
Racial Disparity in Follow-Up Appointment Attendance After Hospitalization Disappears As Telemedicine Adopted Penn Medicine

The Center for Health Care Innovation (CHCI) facilitates the rapid, disciplined development, testing, and implementation of new strategies to reimagine health care delivery for dramatically better patient outcomes, value, and experience.