Health systems routinely grapple with challenges such as increasing statin use or uptake of cancer screening, in which success depends on users and providers changing what they do. Blue Cross Blue ...

The Penn Medicine Nudge Unit — a behavioral design team that aims to affect medical decision-making — is launching several new pilot projects to improve patient care delivery in areas including ...

A little nudge, in this a case a decision aid issued through the electronic health record (EHR), can help bolster statin prescriptions for eligible patients, researchers found. When combined with a ...

PHILADELPHIA - Primary care clinics experienced a significant decline in influenza vaccinations as the day progressed, researchers from Penn Medicine report in a new study published in JAMA Open ...

The nation's first research unit devoted to "healthcare nudges" has developed solutions that significantly improve outcomes and lower costs. For example, the group created methods to reduce opioid ...

Nudge units The German government has a small research team, or ‘nudge unit’, tasked with carrying out nudge interventions, according to the study. Another thing that increased support was providing ...