Programs developed by renowned clinicians and researchers to help address the pandemic challenges around patient care safely and efficiently
Our experience in patient engagement, and behavioral science enabled rapid deployment of multiple solutions to aid health systems in this challenging time.
Solutions geared to providing care to patients during the pandemic
This is a mega trial with planned enrollment of 150,000 patients across Penn Medicine and Geisinger Health system. The intent was to simultaneously test out 19 different nudges to figure out how to increase flu vaccination rates. The secondary intent was to use learnings from this to inform COVID vaccination efforts. The best performing nudge increases uptake by 11% over previous year baselines. The study was replicated with Walmart with 800,000+ participants.
Increased uptake by 11% over baseline
Text messaging effectiveness
In a concerted effort to address racial inequities. Penn Medicine partnered with Mercy Health, local pastors and the community in West and Southwest Philadelphia, to set up a community vaccination clinic. The goal was to vaccinate 500 individuals who met the 1A or 1B criteria set forth by the city. Way to Health provided the texting and IVR backends to enable registration and appointment scheduling prior. 557 patients were vaccinated. The next clinic on Feb 27th intends to vaccinate 750. The one after that will hopefully vaccinate 1500.
550 citizens vaccinated in 7 hours
Minimal wait times
Patients scheduled and pre-registered (no lines)
NPS score of 90 (330+ responses)
Given that testing availability will likely continue to be constrained, symptom tracking based testing could lead to earlier case identification. At the same time, sentinel surveillance will be a critical tool for identifying pre-symptomatic, asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic spread that may evade symptom-based surveillance. Together, this approach provides ability to rapidly identify new cases and conduct contact tracing. This is an RCT that aims to (1) Evaluate the feasibility of a saliva-based screening COVID viral testing program (2) Compare behavioral strategies to improve study enrollment (3)Understand the relationship between daily symptom tracking and identifying infection,
2500+ recruited
10,000+ tests
Increased installs of patient app
COVID tests are conducted in advance of procedures or as part of occupational health. These results needed to be communicated to patients in a timely manner. While they were also communicated via the patient portal, immediacy is critical and not all patients have the app installed and activated. Phone calls from a nursing team were expensive and time consuming. An automated system to communicate negative test results (the majority) was put into place to optimize resources while ensuring patient communication.
2100+ results communicated
Increased installs of patient app
COVID Pulse was designed partly in response to reports that some patients with Covid-19 have little dyspnea, despite concerning hypoxemia (low blood oxygen). This program enrolls patients from emergency departments with depressed oxygen saturations, providing them with pulse oximeters, and escalates to care based on declines in measured oxygen saturation.
Enhanced monitoring of patients
Objective escalations based on PulseOx readings
$2.5M PCORI award
A variant of the COVID Watch program that automatically checks in specifically with cancer patients at risk for complications of COVID-19 who are self-isolating at home. Patients are monitored 24x7 via text message and escalations managed by an oncology nursing team with full Epic integration.
80+% patient engagement
Patient NPS score of 100
A Penn Medicine program that automatically checks in with patients at risk for complications of COVID-19 who are self-isolating at home. Patients are monitored 24x7 via text message and escalations managed by a nursing team with full Epic integration.
Staff hour reduction to just 64 per day
$2.3 Million savings over 100 days
Patient NPS score of 80
A variant of the COVID Watch program that automatically checks in specifically with pregnant women at risk for complications of COVID-19 who are self-isolating at home. Patients are monitored 24x7 via text message and escalations managed by an hospital specific nursing teams with full Epic integration.
80+% patient engagement
Patient NPS score of 76
Covered 208 patients over six months
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