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 ...

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 ...

When the electronic health record is programmed to automatically flag and create orders for patients needing cancer screenings, doctors are significantly more likely to order them, a new Penn Medicine ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of behavioural insights experts recruited by the government, under a pet project of Prime Minister David Cameron, has been sold to its employees and the charity Nesta with the government ...