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Spring has sprung! We are pleased to announce the full release of our new business intelligence tool, Lens Analytics. Lens Analytics is Way to Health's product offering that provides deep visibility into program data. We also restructured our user account framework to allow maximum flexibility for modern programs.

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With the end of the quarter approaching, we are getting closer towards our next major release: Simplifying and speeding up integration between Way to Health and our analytics tool, Lens. See product updates below for more details. On the operations front, we launched nine implementations last month. Of those, several projects focused on understanding and improving behaviors around substance abuse disorders. Projects include a trial focused on increasing Narcan carrying among patients with opioid use disorder (OUD), a pilot developed to better understand needs of patients with OUD leaving the hospital built on the COVID Watch model, and remote engagement strategies targeted at improving nursing engagement for patients with substance abuse disorders.

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The last quarter of 2021 is focused on surfacing data more easily and readily to our users. October laid the groundwork for the anticipated release of standard dashboards and a report builder through our analytics tool, Lens. Projects launched this month include THEA 2.0, which layers education content on top of existing prenatal blood pressure monitoring program, Breast Cancer Screening Outreach, and Step 4Life, an RCT leveraging gamification concepts to improve physical activity among patients with Alzheimers.

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Our team is no stranger to the power of behavioral economics. Leveraging that “fresh start” effect with the new school year, September is a time for planning and preparation. Our operations team is back to full steam with a new full time analyst and our product owner back from parental leave. Projects launched this month include PennMedConnect at HUP, SAM Oncology at Lancaster General Hospital, Heart Safe Motherhood at Jefferson, and Intermittent Fasting RCT.

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It was a busy summer! We wrapped up a successful upgrade of our embedded view within Epic and made great strides in handling remote monitoring at scale. On the operations front, we launched two studies at Penn Medicine focused on improving patient experience and outcomes among cancer patients. We also launched versions of Heart Safe Motherhood at other local Philadelphia hospitals.

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After multiple conversations with our clinical users, our team focused our efforts to redesign the Way to Health (W2H) Epic Embed. The goal was to streamline the clinician experience. The new design makes viewing a patient enrolled in a W2H program easier and optimizes the experience for the clinician. Here are some changes you can expect to see.

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From the very beginning of the COVID pandemic, Way to Health (W2H) has worked with Penn Medicine to implement numerous remote-monitoring programs across the health system. In implementing these programs, we scaled the number of people enrolled in a W2H program exponentially - going from ~70,000 to ~1,250,000 participant accounts in one year. This was a massive accomplishment for W2H, but it also meant that we needed to scale the platform to accommodate the change in user volume. Therefore, we focused our efforts in July 2021 on improving W2H performance at scale.