ED Nurse Screening, Clinician Prompts Improve OUD Treatment

ED Nurse Screening, Clinician Prompts Improve OUD Treatment

Healthcare Innovation featured the Warm Handoff project. “Our findings indicate that the screening and prompts help clinicians to recognize patients and increasingly initiate important care for them,” says Maggie Lowenstein. “There is a huge group now eligible to...
Congratulations to Dr. Katie Hunzinger and Dr. Kevin Rix

Congratulations to Dr. Katie Hunzinger and Dr. Kevin Rix

Congratulations to Katie Hunzinger of the Perelman School of Medicine and Kevin Rix of the School of Nursing and Perelman School of Medicine for completing their postdoctoral fellowships at the Penn Injury Science Center and beginning their next chapters as assistant...
Preventing falls with tech

Preventing falls with tech

Sense4Safety, the technology used in one of the Center’s core research projects, received a flurry of media attention following a presentation by George Demiris at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference. Demiris leads the...
Making the best choice the easy choice in clinical care

Making the best choice the easy choice in clinical care

Amidst a rising demand for acute care and a lack of capacity to meet it, Kit Delgado works “to design systems or choice environments that make the best choice the easy choice.” Penn Medicine News gives an overview of The Nudge Unit’s recent work and...