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The Nudge Unit is partnering with Penn Medicine teams to facilitate tobacco cessation treatment in primary care and to implement a better medication prior authorization workflow at discharge. The two projects, which will implement nudges via the electronic health record, were selected from Nudge’s 2025 call for proposals.

Penn Medicine is harnessing technology, innovation, and physician insights to make health care easier for clinicians and patients. Read about leaders and projects from across the Center for Health Care Transformation and Innovation who are solving health care problems. 

In this profile from CBS News, CHTI executive director Raina Merchant is featured for her work as an emergency medicine physician and for designing for the future of care as the health system's chief transformation officer.