CHTI Blog

An innovative Penn Medicine program, Practical Alternative to Hospitalization, showed the impact of offering certain patients acute care in the comfort of their homes instead of being admitted to the hospital. Learnings from the PATH program are informing a new Hospital at Home program launching in 2026.

This year’s Nudges in Health Care Symposium, an event where clinical researchers and industry leaders exchange findings and perspectives on behavioral science in health care, explored “megastudies” that test multiple interventions simultaneously, AI integration in clinical settings, and experiments from across the globe.

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. 

Read Way to Health updates including recently launched programs, new features and enhancements, and bug fixes.