platform A Year in Review - 2021 in Numbers

2021 was a big year for Way to Health - not only for our team and product, but for the army of amazing researchers and clinical care teams that develop and manage interventions on our platform.

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technical Stayin' Alive

My most recent fun ("fun") technical challenge: at the intersection of application behavior, network behavior, OS behavior, and far more TCP details than I normally deal with as an application developer.

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Publications Community-Based COVID-19 Vaccine Clinics in Medically Underserved Neighborhoods to Improve Access and Equity, Philadelphia, 2021–2022

Heather Klusaritz PhD, MSW, Emily Paterson MPH, Courtney Summers MSW, Nida Al-Ramahi MHA, Nawar Naseer PhD, Helena Jeudin BS, Yuhnis Sydnor BA, Maurice Enoch BA, Nieemah Dollard, Kevin D. Young BA, Neda Khan MHCI, Jeffrey Henne BA, Anna Doubeni MD, Nishaminy Kasbekar PharmD, Yevgeniy Gitelman MD, Patrick J. Brennan MD, Kent Bream MD, Carolyn C. Cannuscio ScD, Richard C. Wender MD, Rachel Feuerstein-Simon MPA, MPH

AJPH

We describe the efforts of an academic medical institution to implement community-based COVID-19 vaccine clinics in medically underserved neighborhoods in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Over a 13-month period (April 2021–April 2022), the initiative delivered 9038 vaccine doses to community members, a majority of whom (57%) identified as Black.

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Publications Text Message–Based Breastfeeding Support Compared With Usual Care

Bender, Whitney MD; Levine, Lisa MD; Durnwald, Celeste MD

Obs&Gyn

The program planned to evaluate whether a postpartum text message–based communication platform improves breastfeeding rates. When stratified by race, Black patients in the intervention arm had 2.6 times higher odds of exclusively breastfeeding at 6 weeks postpartum compared with Black patients in the control arm. Enrollment in the intervention arm decreased the Black–non-Black disparity in the primary outcome. There were no differences in other secondary outcomes.

Press Penn Medicine Maternal Mortality Prevention Innovation Selected for Federal Racial Equity in Postpartum Care Program

HSM is a flagship program that is managed by Way to Health. As the article details, the program has been through multiple iterations and now is the standard of care across all of Penn Medicine and increasingly in other intitutions in the country. The efficacy of the program has been proven in multiple clinical trials and has shown reduction in readmissions by up to 80%.

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Press A Global Pandemic Turned Everything Upside Down. What Has Penn Medicine’s Innovation Team Learned From That?

Some of the key learnings from the pandemic from across the center. Learnings include risk evaluation changes (allowing texting), telemedicine being the lifeline and its future growth, things getting done quickly given a crisis, remote work is here to stay and is a good thing, and the need for an increased emphasis on mental health.