Kevin G. Volpp (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was featured in Penn Today about how contact tracing can be used as an epidemiological tool to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Kevin G. Volpp (PSC/PARC Research Associate), David Asch, and Ralph Muller look to best practices in science and business to offer guidance on how to handle the current coronavirus pandemic. Read more here.
Kevin G. Volpp (PARC/PSC Research Associate) writes about his idea to move the patients to the ventilators, instead of moving ventilators to the patients who need them. Read more here.
Research by Kevin G. Volpp (PSC/PARC Associate) cited in Medium article about applicable nudge insights to the health field.
Kevin G. Volpp (PSC/PARC Research Associate) co-authored a study which found that when patients were 32% more likely to continue sending health data to the research team than those using wearables. Read more here
By identifying similar themes acrorss tweets, a team of researchers at Penn Medicine came together to determine what topics and themes could be associated with loneliness. By applying linguistic analytic models to tweets, the researchers found users who tweeted about loneliness post significantly more often about mental well-being concerns and things like struggles with relationships, substance use, and insomnia. The study was published in BMJ Open.
Recently published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, researchers from Penn Medicine tested new tactics, including text messaging and remote monitoring via an electronic pill bottle, to see if they might affect blood pressure levels. They found that while each method did appear to keep medication adherence high, neither method appeared to drive down blood pressure levels.
Kevin G. Volpp and co-authors published a study in JAMA Network Open. The study showed that choice alone does not impact rates but how choice is offered can alter patient decision-making
Kevin G. Volpp and co-authors published an article in Harvard Business Review about gamification programs in behavioural health.
PSC Associates, Kevin G. Volpp and Atheendar Venkataramani, are being honoured at the 2019 Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Annual Meeting. Volpp is receiving The John M. Eisenberg National Award for Career Achievement in Research and Venkataramani, the Best Published Research Paper of the Year. Read more on LDI's website.
Kevin G. Volpp, Executive Director of Penn's Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE), announced that Penn Nursing's Alison M. Buttenheim would become Interim Director of CHIBE when he goes on sabbatical in January. Both are LDI Senior Fellows and PSC researchers.
Kevin G. Volpp of PSC & PARC offered commentary on the “universal challenge” of dieting. “People generally speaking are much more successful in achieving initial weight loss than maintaining weight loss,” he said in a CNBC interview.
PSC researcher, Kevin G. Volpp was among the speakers for The Perelman School of Medicine’s Nudge Unit, Center for Health Care Innovation, and Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics co-sponsored first national “Nudge Units in Health Care Symposium,” where health care leaders from the U.S. and Canada unanimously agreed that Penn is well positioned to use behavioral science for creating better patient outcomes.
PSC researchers, David S. Mandell and Kevin G. Volpp, took part in a two day retreat convened by the University of Pennsylvania ALACRITY project and National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded study of how behavioral economics principles might be applied to mental health services. More about this retreat can be found at Penn LDI News.
Kevin Volpp spoke at the NEJM Catalyst event Patient Behavior Change: Building Blocks for Success, held at Duke University.
Kevin Volpp interviews Karen DeSalvo for NEJM Catalyst podcast about public health. Listen to part one and part two of this interview.
Kevin Volpp and co-author have published a report on patient engagement in NEJM Catalyst.
Kevin Volpp and co-authors have published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine on the use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) to promote the cessation of smoking. The Philadelphia Inquirer quotes their study in this article.
New Penn LDI research brief provides an excellent synopsis of Kevin Volpp and co-authors' study on smoking cessation, financial incentives and e-cigarettes.
Kevin Volpp and co-authors' paper, Using Active Choice Within the Electronic Health Record to Increase Influenza Vaccination Rates, was quoted in a Harvard Business Review article on the best flu prevention methods.
PSC Researcher Kevin Volpp is mention in a Philadelphia Inquirer article on the cost of health care and the decisions made by patients.
Congratulations to PSC Researcher Kevin Volpp on his appointment as Penn's inaugural Founders President's Distinguished Professor!
Kevin Volpp and co-author have published an article in The New England Journal of Medicine about preventive interventions in the treatment of diabetes.
Kevin Volpp and co-authors have published a new article on health care expenditure and life expectancy in the United States in Jama Cardiology. Read more here.
Researchers Mark V. Pauly and Kevin G. Volpp have publish an article in MarketWatch about the effects of proposed government budget cuts to Medicare on healthcare.
Kevin Volpp and David Mandell will lead the new NIMH-funded Penn ALACRITY Center. The Penn ALACRITY Center—one of two NIMH-funded Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness—will launch with three projects to enhance treatment for people served through publicly-funded mental health systems. For more information about the new center and projects click here.
Kevin Volpp and co-authors have published an article in Harvard Business Review on improving patient care while reducing doctor's workloads. This article is based on a journal article published Kevin Volpp and co-authors titled "Technology and Medicine: Reimagining Provider Visits as the New Tertiary Care" in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Read both article here and here.
Penn News features the Quartet Pilot Program winners and the program is discussed by Irma Elo and Kevin Volpp: Six Research Projects at Penn Bolstered Through Quartet Pilot Competition Funding.
Kevin Volpp is featured in a new Prevention Health Research at Penn video.
Kevin Volpp is cited in Reader's Digest article about motivation and health.
Kevin Volpp is cited in MarketWatch.com article about how to get your kids to eat their vegetables.
Kevin Volpp is quoted in Penn LDI article about new collaborative research.
Kevin Volpp is cited in NPR article about the use of science in healthy meal choices.
A new study from Mitesh Patel, and co-authors Kevin Volpp and David Asch finds financial incentives aimed at increasing physical activity among teams are most effective when the participants are rewarded for a combination of individual and team performance.
Kevin Volpp wrote an article in the New York Times about money incentives for employees to loose weight.
In an LDI Health Economist article, Kevin Volpp suggests the health-care system should focus on helping people make healthy-behavior changes.
A study conducted by Kevin Volpp and several others found that financial incentives in the form of health insurance premium adjustments were not effective in motivating people to lose weight.
Kevin Volpp's research in behavioral economics was cited in the SBST 2015 Annual Report released at a recent event at the White House.
Kevin G. Volpp received the National Institutes of Health 2015 Matilda White Riley Award and gives named lecture at NIH's 20th Anniversary Celebration of the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, read more in this announcement from Penn Medicine. Last year's winner of this prestigious award was Samuel H. Preston.
Kevin Volpp was senior author on a study which has found that various financial incentives help people quit smoking.
In an editorial published in JAMA Pediatrics, Kevin Volpp and co-author Mitesh S. Patel offer strategies for helping children make better food choices.
Kevin G. Volpp discusses incentives for healthy habits in an article on The Conversation entitled "Should we pay people to look after their health?"
Kevin G. Volpp has been named Vice Chair of Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine, see the Penn Almanac for details.
Kevin G. Volpp discusses his research on temptation bundling on Knowledge@Wharton in the article "Using ‘The Hunger Games’ to Encourage Healthier Choices."
Kevin G. Volpp is quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer article on a program to promote healthy eating habits.
Kevin Volpp's research profiled in Penn Medicine News.
Kevin Volpp discusses the “connected health movement” in Knowledge@Wharton.
According to Kevin Volpp employer-based wellness incentives are not as simple as just paying someone for doing the right thing.
Kevin G. Volpp discusses health-care costs in a story on Marketplace Health Care.
Kevin G. Volpp's study on weight loss incentives and hihs recently published article in the Annals of Internal Medicine are highlighted in a press release in the Penn News.
Kevin G. Volpp shares his thoughts about a judicial ruling against New York’s soda regulation in the New York Times.
Kevin G. Volpp is quoted about the expanding interest in using cash as an incentive for dieters to lose weight on NPR.
Kevin G. Volpp comments on health-care costs being included for the first time on W-2 forms in an article on NewsWorks.
Kevin Volpp and David Dinges are quoted in US News & World Report about their study on medical interns taking “protected power naps.”
In Forbes, Kevin Volpp says, “We need serious rethinking about what happens when medication is dispensed.”
David Asch and Kevin Volpp have studied "low value" medical services to help consumers make better decisions.
Kevin G. Volpp provided an update on the "Way to Health' automated research infrastructure and patient engagement system at the Penn-Carnegie Mellon University Roybal Center Retreat.
Kevin Volpp and David Asch discuss lessons the health care profession can draw from the decline of the Eastman Kodak Company.
Penn researchers David A. Asch and Kevin Volpp say automated strategies to engage patients at home are key to improving health outcomes.
Kevin Volpp comments on competitive online games in the workplace to improve health.
Kevin Volpp comments on employers linking health-insurance policies to medical tests.
Kevin Volpp is cited in this New York Times op-ed for helping conduct an experiment to urge the employees at a health-care management company undertake a health risk assessment.