During the last two decades, breast cancer rates have been decreasing in the United States (1, 2). Certain risk factors, however, have increased (e.g., older average age at first pregnancy, […]
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8 Key Questions to Ask When Operationalizing Research
In 2023, return on investment and clinical validation of a technology’s platform will be greatest indicators of a digital health company’s success (GSR Ventures, 2023). Recent efforts to examine clinical […]
In Pursuit of Health Equity for Older Adults to Support Active Aging
“For a just selection, everybody has to take the same exam: climb that tree.” In this well-known satire of the education system, it matters a tremendous amount on your selection […]
Leveraging Behavioral Reinforcement Learning to Promote Mammograms
Breast cancer represented almost 12% of all cancer cases worldwide in 2020, and a quarter of cancer diagnoses in women. Yet, despite recommendations that all women age 40 and over […]
What Vaccine Hesitancy Can Tell Us About Nudging People to Better Health
Behavioral interventions targeting vaccine adoption, which we designed for a Louisiana health system, have implications for any behavioral intervention aimed at improving and sustaining health behaviors. I recently had the opportunity to share the lessons we learned at a meeting of the Virginia chapter of HIMSS.