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With Opioid Addiction Treatments, Education is Key

The rate at which people are dying of opioid overdoses in America is accelerating. Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) alongside harm-reduction measures such as needle exchanges and supervised injection facilities have proven successful in other countries, but have failed to gain support in the U.S. We set up a Creative Focus test to determine where popular support currently stands on MAT and needle exchanges, and which messages impact support levels.

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Empowering the Public Sector with Data Science

Every day, state, county, and municipal governments improve citizen-facing services through the power of data science. Although it might sound complicated, “data science” simply means leveraging technology to find patterns in data. Identifying these patterns helps organizations better understand their business, communities, or the environment in which they operate.

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Understanding Retail Clinic Patients

In the last decade, the number of U.S. retail clinics — medical clinics located in other businesses, such as grocery stores or pharmacies — has grown significantly. By 2017, the number of retail clinics grew almost 5x since 2006, and total sales by retail clinics grew 3x between 2010 and 2016.

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How Do You Persuade People to Get a Flu Shot? Emphasize How it Can Help Others.

The 2017–18 flu season was the worst in many years. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimated roughly 80,000 Americans died as a result of the flu last season, well above any other season’s total in the last 40 years. In addition, the vaccination rate among adults was down to only 37.1%, the lowest in at least seven years, and well below the CDC’s goal of 70%. We set up a randomized controlled trial using our on-demand Creative Focus tool to determine what types of messages may be most effective in persuading people to get a flu shot.

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Urgent care? Emergency room? Virtual care? Americans struggle in knowing where to go for medical care.

With the rise of nontraditional, often lower-cost healthcare provider outlets such as retail clinics, urgent care centers and telemedicine alternatives, patients have more choices for where to seek medical care than ever before.

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City of Houston and Civis Analytics Report Details Methodology for Smarter, More Accurate Disaster Recovery

After Hurricane Harvey, the stakes were high for the City of Houston in correctly accounting for the full costs of the storm on the city's housing. Between 2015 and Harvey in August 2017, Houston experienced five federally-declared flooding disasters, meaning that many Houstonians had yet to recover from previous storms when Harvey struck.

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Clinical Trial Recruitment: Understanding Participation and Strategies for Boosting Enrollment

Clinical trials are vital to medical research as they’re often the best and only way to test new interventions, such as treatments or drugs. However, recruiting subjects — especially from demographic or socioeconomic groups that are typically underrepresented in research — is often a major challenge for study coordinators. We examined some of the barriers to clinical trial participation and suggest some outreach strategies that may improve enrollment.

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Meeting Demand for Telehealth

Telehealth, also referred to as virtual healthcare, is remote medical care delivered using technology such as videoconferencing, audio, or chat, is yet another alternative option for patients besides seeing an in-office physician or a hospital. Proponents believe that virtual care can enhance the patient experience, reduce costs, and increase access to medical care, especially in remote rural areas where there are fewer physicians and hospitals.

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Improving Support for HPV Vaccination Through Persuasive Messaging

At some point in their lives, around 80% of all sexually active Americans will contract the Human Papilloma Virus. HPV, as it's more commonly called, is the most frequently transmitted sexual infection in the United States. It can lead to a range of health problems, including cancer. Each year, an estimated 34,000 US adults are diagnosed with a cancer caused by HPV.

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Persuading Illinois Residents to Wear Masks to Halt COVID-19’s Spread

THE CHALLENGE Wearing a mask is one of the most critical steps citizens can take to reduce the spread of COVID-19. But as of June 2020, only 66% of Illinois…

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Optimizing Media Strategy for Discovery, Inc.

THE CHALLENGE Every media company today is under increasing pressure to optimize their marketing dollars to retain and increase viewership. Discovery, Inc. is a global leader in entertainment, with 19…

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Illinois Office of the State Treasurer Case Study

Illinois State Treasurer Mike Frerichs has always been passionate about improving higher education. He served as chairman of the Illinois Legislature’s Higher Education Committee and ran for treasurer on a…

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Nonprofit Trends Across the U.S.

Here at Civis, we’re curious, and we like numbers. Sometimes, just for fun, we’ll pull publicly available data and see what interesting macro trends we can find. At the end of 2018, we were looking at IRS 990 data (public information on nonprofit performance) and thought “hey, wouldn’t it be cool to share our findings with more people?” So we brought in our friends at Fast Company, shared the numbers, and let them take it from there.

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Lyric Opera Case Study

Most arts nonprofits face a similar challenge: modify their programming and marketing efforts in order to manage aging audiences, technological disruptions, and changes in cultural consumption. Lyric Opera of Chicago…

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Leveraging Data to Insure the Uninsured

A core pillar of Enroll America’s quest is to get people insured. After noticing that their current outreach efforts with their Get Covered America Program wasn’t lowering the uninsured rate,…

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How Civis Platform helped transform CRM strategy at Pampered Chef

Pampered Chef is the premier seller of high-quality kitchen solutions, and for every item sold, there’s a data point about the product and who bought it. As the company grew,…

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FDNY Case Study

In 2017, the New York Fire Department set out to recruit a more diverse group of applicants for the firefighter exam than ever before. This mission was made more difficult…

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My homework assignment from the VP: How to bring data science to cancer research

Earlier this year, Vice President Biden gave me a homework assignment in his dining room. He asked me, along with a few other data and analytics industry folks, to join…

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With Opioid Addiction Treatments, Education is Key

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