Penn Med Chief Transformation Officer Raina Merchant, MD MSHP FAHA weighs in on activities essential to innovation and gives advice on team composition, stakeholder identification, progress evaluation, and more. ⬇️

Join Dept. of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics on Wednesday, 3/29 for their 5th Annual Research Day, "Leading the Way in Health Data Science," in the BRB Gaulton Auditorium!🎉 Learn more & register➡️ bit.ly/3JESOoO

Excellent to hear Chalanda Evans, MPH & Kehinde Oyekanmi share the latest about Lift Every Voice (LEV) at PSOM Inclusion, Diversity and Equity's latest DEI Cafe! LEV is a digital platform for capturing & intervening on experiences of racism in health care, developed w/Penn Urban Health Lab. healthcareinnovation.upenn.edu/lift-every-voi…

Neat webinar alert: May 3 is Penn Alumni's "Data Science to the Rescue: Faculty Tackle Real-World Problems" featuring Penn experts Raina Merchant, MD MSHP FAHA, Dr.Desmond Upton Patton, Greg Ridgeway & Eric Bradlow. Register ->> pennmed1.org/3LcIuqh

Behavioral flags in the EHR are meant to promote workplace safety. A study by Anish Agarwal & colleagues finds that emergency dept. nurses hold varying opinions on their utility and importance. //Learn more in Anish's 🧵 & read the paper in JAMA Network Open: pennmed1.org/3Hdg10U

Ravi Gupta & David Grande discuss digital health privacy protections for consumers and their findings from a recent paper (coauthored by Raina Merchant, MD MSHP FAHA) in this Q&A from Penn LDI. ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/resea…

New qualitative study sheds light on emergency nurses' perspectives on the use of #EHR behavioral flags to promote workplace safety🚩 ft. Emily Seeburger, MPH Rachel Gonzales Eugenia (Gina) South, MD MS Ari B. Friedman @aribfriedman.bsky.social & Anish Agarwal Penn EM Residency Penn Med Transformation & Innovation Penn Center for Emergency Care Policy and Research Penn Urban Health Lab rb.gy/mafx4

How can AI-based methods inform social listening applications during #PublicHealth crises? Sharath Chandra Guntuku (Penn Computer and Information Science+Penn Med CDH) will address using #BigData for social good in this week's #Biomedical Data Science Seminar (5/10, 4PM) hosted by Penn IBI. bit.ly/3nApwkq

New RCT out in Nature Scientific Reports finds that #RemotePatientMonitoring data improved 30-day hospital readmission prediction when using #MachineLearning Wearables & Smartphones had similar results. nature.com/articles/s4159… Kevin Volpp Daniel Polsky Genevieve Kanter, PhD Chalanda Evans, MPH

ICYMI: Analyzing tweets by emergency med docs, Anish Agarwal, Sharath Chandra Guntuku et al. detected negative shifts in their well-being during the pandemic. The study suggests social media could be useful as a monitoring tool in efforts to fight #burnout. pennmedicine.org/news/news-rele…

Congratulations 👏 to the six winning teams of the 2023 Well City Challenge pitch competition, who will receive support for their ventures to improve health & wellness in #Philadelphia. Economy League Independence Blue Cross #AccelerateHealthEquity news.ibx.com/well-city-chal…

We're hiring a Clinical Research Coordinator B to support multiple studies at the nexus of digital tech and health. Learn more & apply: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recruiti… #HIRINGNOW

"If and when AI helps us free up time for clinicians, we should give that time back to clinicians,” says CDH deputy director Anish Agarwal. “We should resist the urge to fill that time with more work." More about #AI & clinician #burnout on Penn Center for Health Incentives+Behavioral Econ chibe.upenn.edu/chibeblog/coul…

Today National Academies I shared a bit of what we’ve discovered related to opioid disposal. Make it: 1) easy 2) simple 3) available 4) no (or low) cost jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Well said. And understanding how people express loneliness can inform how we address it. Research by Sharath Chandra Guntuku and colleagues has looked into such expressions on social media – - on Twitter journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… - on Facebook penntoday.upenn.edu/news/Penn-rese… #SocialMediome

"In emergency medicine.... We don’t have many formal processes for real-time, peer decision support. Providing it virtually is really smart. I could see this evolving to a state that connects clinicians at scale," says Anish Agarwal. Read more from Penn LDI ⬇️