Virginia Long, PhD

Virginia Long, Ph.D. leads predictive modeling efforts for MedeAnalytics by using big data for various provider and health plan projects. The ballerina turned behavioral neuroscientist turned data scientist is a UCLA and UC Berkley graduate with seven years of research experience.

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What makes a wellness program succeed or fail? Behavior, motivation, and personality

David Mould, PhD, also contributed to this article. Intuition and recent studies have proven that wellness programs, which actively leverage activity trackers, are great but one size definitely doesn’t fit all. This piece explores the history of activity trackers, how they play out in wellness program and an analysis of one global company’s wellness program […]