A Moment with Gokul Krishnan is part of our interview series featuring thought leaders in research and healthcare. Each interview includes 7 short and stimulating questions. Gokul Krishnan is the Founder of Maker Therapy. This innovative pediatric patient experience...
Academic Medical Centers: The Increasing Importance of Translational Research
The phrase “translational research” often refers to pharmaceutical companies moving from basic clinical research into drug development. Sometimes pharma companies do this research themselves, and sometimes they license compounds from Academic Medical Centers (AMCs), with technology transfer deals bringing revenue...
A Moment With Ashleigh Golden: On Systemic Roadblocks And Empathic Sensibilities
A Moment with Ashleigh Golden is part of our interview series featuring thought leaders in research and healthcare. Each interview includes 7 short and stimulating questions. Dr. Ashleigh Golden is a Stanford-trained clinical psychologist fostering mental health in vivo...
Post-Covid Digital Health Research Trends
Rarely has the world been forced to remake itself in quite the same way as what the Covid-19 pandemic has done. For more than a year now, every sphere of our modern life has had to compromise in ways that...
A Moment with Riana Elyse Anderson: On Virtual Reality For Wellbeing And The Impact Of Racism On Mental Health
A Moment with Riana Elyse Anderson is part of our interview series featuring thought leaders in research and healthcare. Each interview includes 7 short and stimulating questions. Riana Elyse Anderson, PhD, LCP is an Assistant Professor in the Health Behavior...
How To Best Incentivize Exercise: Gaining Points, Losing Points, Or Both?
Pattern Health has developed and tested a variety of behavioral strategies to increase user engagement and adherence to these programs in collaboration with Dan Ariely’s Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University, including the following case study. How to...
Round 2 Of FCC’s Covid-19 Telehealth Program Offers Additional $250 Million
Last year, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program dispersed $200 million in funds to over 500 healthcare organizations in need of support for their telehealth and connected care programs. Following the program’s success and considering the ongoing need for remote health...
Implementation Intentions for Weight Tracking Among Congestive Heart Failure Patients
Pattern Health has developed and tested a variety of behavioral strategies to increase user engagement and adherence to these programs in collaboration with Dan Ariely’s Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University, including the following case study. Implementation intentions for...
How The Pandemic Flipped The Default In Healthcare
Originally published in Forbes by Aline Holzwarth. The coronavirus pandemic has upended our lives in so many ways. And while it’s not easy to find a bright side, one silver lining of the pandemic has to be the prevailing switch...
Lose Your Apps If You Don’t Take Your Medication
Pattern Health has developed and tested a variety of behavioral strategies to increase user engagement and adherence to these programs in collaboration with Dan Ariely’s Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University, including the following case study. Most people intend...
A Moment With NYU’s Linda Collins: On Hard-Nosed Empiricism And Optimizing Interventions
A Moment with Linda M. Collins is part of our interview series featuring thought leaders in research and healthcare. Each interview includes 7 short and stimulating questions. For more from Dr. Collins, find her on Twitter (@Collins_Most). Linda M. Collins...
2020 In Review: Behavioral Science Edition
In hindsight, we should have known 2020 would be a fiasco — really, what else could it have been? We’ve almost reached the end, with 2021 just weeks away. But before we shut the door to 2020, let’s review how...