Only One in Four High-Risk Rural Births Get Appropriate Hospital Care
A Multi-State Study Finds That Parents Often Travel 60+ Miles—With Distance, Insurance, and Race Driving Gaps in Maternal Care
Research & Policy Updates
How Hospitals Can Ease Staff Burnout—and Improve Patient Safety
A Major European–U.S. Hospital Study Finds That Changing How Hospitals Are Organized Reduces Burnout and Turnover While Improving Care Quality
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services: A Notable Success in Trump 2.0
An LDI Fellow Who Helped Architect the ACA Highlights Progress on Primary Care Payment Reform and the Expansion of Site-Neutral Reimbursement Policies
Methadone Use Rises—But Too Few People Get Opioid Medication
Chart of the Day: Methadone Use for Opioid Use Disorder Tripled From 2010–2020, Yet Only One in Four People With Addiction Receive Medication
Can AI Hear When Patients Are Ready for Palliative Care?
Researchers Use AI to Analyze Patient Phone Calls for Vocal Cues Predicting Palliative Care Acceptance
Six Insights on Health Care Affordability From Penn LDI
LDI Fellows’ Research Quantifies the Effects of High Health Care Costs for Consumers and Shines Light on Several Drivers of High U.S. Health Care Costs
Can AI Be Licensed the Way Doctors and Nurses Are?
A Licensure Model May Offer Safer Oversight as Clinical AI Grows More Complex, a Penn LDI Doctor Says
Venture Philanthropy Transformed Cystic Fibrosis. Can It Deliver for Other Diseases?
CF Foundation’s Landmark Drug Approvals With Vertex Inspired Patient Groups to Act Like Biotech Investors. But Only a Few Groups Have Made Big Bets, LDI Fellow Finds
Patients Face New Barriers for GLP-1 Drugs Like Wegovy and Ozempic
Even With Lower Prices, Medicare, Medicaid, and Other Insurers Tighten Coverage for Drugs Like Mounjaro and Zepbound Using Prior Authorization and Other Tools
Heart Failure Patients May Get Sicker When the Rent Is Too High
Cheaper Housing Could be a Way to Lower Hospitalizations Among Medicaid Patients with Heart Failure
How One Study Helped Save Free Preventive Care in a Supreme Court Showdown
A 2024 Study Showing How Even Small Copays Reduce PrEP Use Fueled Media, Legal, and Advocacy Efforts As Courts Weighed a Case Threatening No-Cost Preventive Care for Millions
How Playing Games May Save People’s Lives
The Growing Use of Gamification in Health Motivates People to Exercise More and Take Other Actions to Improve Their Physical Well-Being