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Blogbeitrag#117. Mai 2024

Language of Depression Among Black Americans is Not the Same as That for White Americans, Revealing a Limitation to AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds promise to advance mental health care, with potential applications including the use of social media data to predict depression and the use of chatbots to help fill gaps in the availability of therapists. But are such technologies exempt from the racial disparities that plague other health care algorithms? And are the […]

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Blogbeitrag#215. Mai 2024

FDA Needs to Reboot Rules for Less Harmful Tobacco Alternatives After Biden's Delay of the Menthol Ban

The White House announced on April 26 that it would indefinitely delay the ban on menthol cigarette sales. If passed, this ban would have averted over 650,000 deaths over the next 40 years, and would have led 4.5 million Americans who smoke menthol cigarettes to quit entirely. This delay means that menthol cigarettes will continue […]

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Blogbeitrag#310. Mai 2024

What Nurses Really Need is Better Staffing

The following excerpt is from an op-ed that first appeared in STAT News on May 10th, 2024. Pizza. Coloring books. Goody bags. They could be activities at a 5-year-old's birthday party. But they're not: These are many employers' attempts to lift the morale of nurses on the frontlines of chronically understaffed organizations. What nurses really want are better […]

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Blogbeitrag#49. Mai 2024

Bipartisan Support Grows To Solve One of Health Care's Biggest Problems

The following excerpt is from an op-ed that first appeared in The Hill on May 9th, 2024. To appreciate one of the great snafus of American health care, consider the plight of people who are poor, elderly — often with a disability — and insured by both Medicare and Medicaid.   One might think having two insurers must be better […]

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Blogbeitrag#52. Mai 2024

Parents Want Providers to Log Their Children's Social Needs but with Transparency and Respect

Yes [social needs information belongs in the chart]. I feel like that's good to know. I feel like if it something that you need help with or anything, I feel like it should be in the chart because it'll give you a better sense of who that person is or what type of environment they […]

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Blogbeitrag#61. Mai 2024

Growing Health Worker Migration to the U.S. and U.K. Raises Fairness and Training Issues

As the world grapples with the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the migration of health care professionals has emerged as a critical issue requiring the attention of policymakers in the U.S. and across the world. The problem lies in an imbalance in how workers are distributed, both domestically and globally. International migration to high-income countries […]

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Blogbeitrag#725. April 2024

Health Care Algorithms Can Improve or Worsen Racial and Ethnic Disparities

In recent years, artificial intelligence has reached many parts of health care, and other health care algorithms are now part of everyday practice in clinical care, resource allocations, and health care management. Diagnostic and predictive algorithms have become popular because they enable automation of common tasks and provide insight for difficult decisions. But many algorithms […]

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Blogbeitrag#823. April 2024

4 Ways Health Officials Can Communicate Better in the Next Pandemic

During the COVID-19 pandemic, communicating what people needed to know about the virus posed a supreme challenge to health officials. While most communications research had been done on diseases with stable risks and clear measures, the virus was novel and the pandemic was fast changing. The advice about ways to combat it seemed to shift by […]

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Blogbeitrag#922. April 2024

Future Bundled Payment Models Need To Engage Physician Group Practices

The following first appeared in Health Affairs Forefront on April 4th, 2024. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) remains committed to episode-based payment models as part of its multidimensional strategy to advance accountable care. Its most recent bundled payment program, Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Advanced, has been extended through 2025. In 2023, CMS announced plans to develop a new […]

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Blogbeitrag#1019. April 2024

Medicaid's New Policy Boosts Street Medicine in the U.S

Christopher Allen was ready for a fresh start. On an unseasonably warm afternoon in March, Allen, in his early 30s, walked to the 6800 block of Woodland Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia, where a Mobile Overdose Surge Response Bus from Prevention Point Philadelphia, a nonprofit public health agency, was parked. In an almost street-fair-like atmosphere, snacks, […]

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Blogbeitrag#114. April 2024

Doctors, Nurses, and Managers Received Wage Hikes After Medicaid Expansion While Lower-Paid Workers Did Not

The Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion has been instrumental in improving health outcomes for those who gained coverage and for boosting the finances of providers across multiple U.S. health care sectors. However, the extent to which Medicaid expansion affects economic outcomes among health care workers, especially lower-income workers, is not well understood. These questions are […]

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Blogbeitrag#1225. März 2024

Why the Child Tax Credit is Really About Improving Poor Children's Health, a Pediatrician Says

We all agree that we should do what we can to ensure that children thrive. But legislators often lack the will to act on opportunities to do just that. Children from racial minority groups too often bear a higher burden from those failures to act. A proposed expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) — […]

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Blogbeitrag#1321. März 2024

Chart of the Day: What's All This Brouhaha? Today's Private Equity Purchases of Physician Practices Look Much Like the Past

The growth of private equity investment in health care is facing sharp scrutiny from investors, regulators, and the public. Some view private equity as a key to transforming the U.S. health system. Others raise concerns that profits for corporate investors will be at the expense of patients' health, workers' safety, and affordability. LDI Senior Fellows […]

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Blogbeitrag#1413. März 2024

Do Wealth and Poverty Affect Access to Less-Invasive Cardiac Surgery?

Heart disease is the nation's leading cause of death, and yet not everyone has access to advanced, innovative cardiac care. A new study by LDI Senior Fellows Guy David, Alon Bergman, and coauthors showed that in areas with greater socioeconomic disadvantage, patients who need aortic valve replacement (AVR) tend to get fewer sophisticated procedures than […]

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Blogbeitrag#158. März 2024

Black Patients Feel Dismissed and Skeptical After Their Experiences in the ED

Seeking health care for a Black person is a roll of the dice all the time… We show up in the emergency room because everything else gets dismissed [by our caregivers]… so it gets bad enough that [there's] no other choice until we have to get treated… That's a terrible way to live. – A […]

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