We’re all at the mercy of the intent / behavior gap. This gap means that our underlying motives and our outward actions don’t always go hand in hand. We can thank Mother Nature; she has – to a large degree...
Category - Intent/Behavior Gap
In the fourth episode of the fourth season of Mad Men, ad man Don Draper has a brief dust up with a consultant. She’s just completed her analysis of a focus group on women’s attitudes about cold cream...
On the HIT Consultant website, James Dias posed the question, “Is the Phrase ‘Patient Engagement’ Overused?” It’s an interesting question, I suppose. But there’s a much bigger issue at hand...
Josh Barro at NY Time’s ever interesting TheUpshot offers some advice to the next Powerball winner(s): take the annuity, not the lump sum. He makes good points about tax implications that might advantage the annuity. He...
A recent article in Health Affairs reports that Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) improved medication adherence slightly, but cost more money than it saved. Note: VBID is geek speak for cutting copayments for medications that...
Glowing review of a new iPhone calendar app called “Peek.” The writer starts with an acknowledgement of the pesky gap between intentions and behaviors (via New Years resolutions), and then explains how making the...
The right thing is easy to do… except when it’s not. In fact, doing the right thing often requires self regulation: we must set aside the temptation to do what is in our most immediate, selfish interest to pursue a...
Yesterday, digital health company Healthrageous announced that it was closing its doors and selling off its assets to an unnamed “innovative healthcare company.” Mary Beth Clark, who was the interim president and CEO...
Apple iOS sports a “Do Not Disturb” feature If you’ve ever moved your alarm clock across the room so that you have to get out of bed to turn it off, you understand the difference between good intentions and good...
The New York Times reports on executive pay and mutual fund management fees, topics which are getting fairly significant interest in the courts. On one side are the econs, who argue that the market will solve outsized fees by...
