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Penn Medicine obstetrical physicians and researchers Sindhu Srinivas, MD, MSCE, and Adi Hirshberg, MD, were awarded the 2024 American Heart Association's Edward S. Cooper Award at the 2024 Philadelphia Heart Ball on March 23. They were honored for the Heart Safe Motherhood digital system they developed to improve care for pregnancy patients at high risk […]
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Debunking an often-heard knee-jerk declaration that "the U.S. health care system is the best in world," LDI Senior Fellow and University of Pennsylvania Vice Provost for Global Initiative Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, told an audience at an annual Penn lecture series that much of U.S. health care is failing its patients and burning out its […]
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Insufficient diversity in clinical trials and other research cohorts is widely recognized as one of American health care's greatest problems and one that continues to skew scientific data and conclusions in ways that disadvantage enormous numbers of people. It's a problem that has been the subject of endless national discussions, debate, investigations, analysis, and general […]
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Since its launch 41 years ago, the Medicare Hospice program that covers the costs of care for terminally ill patients has exploded in size. One-fourth of Medicare spending now goes to hospice care as half of all the people who die are Medicare beneficiaries using the program. In 2000, there were 500,000 hospice users. There […]
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Alternative payment models have been touted as a solution to reducing U.S. health care costs. Indeed, some have argued that the Affordable Care Act's focus on alternative payment strategies—which hold providers accountable for the cost of care—is helping to flatten the famously steep curve of U.S. health care costs. Now, a first-ever study that quantifies the […]
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José A. Bauermeister, PhD, MPH, LDI Senior Fellow and Professor and Chair of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Department of Family & Community Health, has been appointed to the National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NACMHD). The council is part of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities […]
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So, imagine there's a runaway epidemic of overdose deaths that involve non-opioid drugs and that we've had an evidence-based therapy for this unique addiction for the last forty years—but for reasons largely grounded in legislators' and the public's visceral disdain for people who use substances, we have refused to nationally recognize or widely implement this […]
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Although the idea of making artificial intelligence (AI) large language models full partners with clinicians in the diagnosis and treatment of patients is the most exciting potential for the innovative technology, the head of the just-launched Wharton Healthcare Analytics Lab (WHAL) emphasizes how caution will guide its work in this exploding new area of health […]
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The rising era of artificial intelligence, ever greater computing power, massive commercialization of personal consumer data, and the lack of a comprehensive federal privacy law, are rendering the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) insufficient to protect personal health data. That's according to LDI Senior Fellow Matthew McCoy, PhD who discussed the […]
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Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH, LDI Senior Fellow and University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Assistant Professor, has been named a 2024 recipient of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) Young Physician Scientist Award. The annual award, a recognition of a physician scientist's early-career achievements, will be presented at the joint annual meeting of […]
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The adequate provision of appropriate school sex education for gay, bisexual, and queer (GBQ) high school adolescents is an issue that has garnered a lot of press coverage and national debate. This is hardly surprising in a country where some school boards routinely marginalize their LGBTQ student communities and purge their libraries of books and […]
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From the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Claire M. Fagin Hall, it's just a short walk through the campus' central matrix of buildings to Colonial Penn Center, the headquarters of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI). And it was a trip that Claire Fagin made frequently during her tenure as Dean of […]
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Even as its development and hype explode ever outward, the case for what artificial intelligence's (AI) clinical decision support role should or should not be remains obscured in tangles of unresolved legal, regulatory, ethical, and procedural issues. That was the central message of the January 12 University of Pennsylvania's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics […]
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Responding to the release of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) 2023 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress that cited a "record level" of homelessness, LDI Senior Fellow Dennis Culhane, PhD, pointed out to the New York Times that the "record" "is partly a manufactured problem." Culhane, Professor and Chair in Social […]
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In its third annual round of grants, from the LDI-Penn Medicine Research Laboratory has awarded funding to three LDI Senior Fellows for their work focused on optimizing efficiency and value in health care delivery (See the full details). In the wake of the results of the first two years of the program, this year the […]