The Healthy Nudge
April 2023
Welcome to The Healthy Nudge. Each month, we'll get you up to speed on the latest developments in policy-relevant health behavioral economics research at CHIBE.
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5 chibe stories you may have missed

How will chatbots like ChatGPT or Bing alter the health care space, and what are the potential benefits and concerns associated with clinicians and patients using artificial intelligence language models? CHIBE spoke with Ravi Parikh, MD, MPP, FACP; M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS; Justin Bekelman, MD; and Anna Morgan, MD, about their thoughts on ChatGPT in health care. Read the story here.

Jonah Berger, PhD, an associate professor at Wharton and CHIBE-affiliated faculty member, has a new book out called “Magic Words: What to Say to Get Your Way.” The book explains how language can be used to change people’s minds, engage audiences, and make you more influential in life. Read a Q&A with Dr. Berger here.

Ravi Parikh, MD, MPP, FACP, just launched the Human Algorithm Collaboration Laboratory (HACLab). CHIBE spoke with Dr. Parikh and his team for a Q&A about this new lab, which implements and scales artificial intelligence and machine learning.

A New York Times Opinion piece written by Andrew H Peterson, PhD, MA; and CHIBE-affiliated faculty members Emily Largent, JD, PhD, RN, and Jason Karlawish, MD

"Conservative Texans and liberal Californians disagree on much in politics. But legislators in both states agree on a new approach to giving people with cognitive impairments a greater chance for self-determination. It’s called supported decision-making, and it is shaping up to be the most consequential change in the care of older people and others with limitations in mental functioning since the rise of advance care directives in the 1990s." Read more here.

An American Journal of Medical Quality paper led by Joshua Liao, MD, MSC, with CHIBE authors Mitesh Patel, MD, MBA; Dylan Small, PhD; Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD; M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS, and Amol Navathe, MD, PhD, et al

"Peer comparison feedback is a promising strategy for reducing opioid prescribing and opioid-related harms. Such comparisons may be particularly impactful among underestimating clinicians who do not perceive themselves as high prescribers relative to their peers. But peer comparisons could also unintentionally increase prescribing among overestimating clinicians who do not perceive themselves as lower prescribers than peers. The objective of this study was to assess if the impact of peer comparisons varied by clinicians’ preexisting opioid prescribing self-perceptions." Read more here.
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Events
April 13 from Noon to 1 PM EST
Join us for a CHIBE and Health Policy seminar on “Advancing Health Equity via Community-Based Participatory Policy Research on Neighborhood Food and Built Environments” with Kristen Cooksey Stowers, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Disparities, Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut. This is a hybrid seminar located in person at 1104 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA, or virtually through Zoom at https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95353951407. See more details here.

April 27 from Noon to 1 PM EST
Join us for a CHIBE and Health Policy seminar on "Randomized Regulation: The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets" with Jishnu Das, PhD, Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy and the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. This is a hybrid seminar located in person at 1104 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive or virtually via Zoom at https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95353951407. See more details here.

May 4 from Noon to 1 PM EST
Join us for a CHIBE and Health Policy seminar on "Included-variable Bias and Everything but the Kitchen Sink" with Sharad Goel, PhD, Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. This is a hybrid seminar located in person at 1104 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive or virtually via Zoom at https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95353951407. See more details here.
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The Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) at the University of Pennsylvania conducts behavioral economics research aimed at reducing the disease burden from major public health problems. Originally founded within the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, our mission is to inform health policy, improve health care delivery, and increase healthy behavior.