AI in Health Care
Harnessing artificial intelligence to improve health care delivery and outcomes.
Our Work
We aim to achieve effective and efficient health care for all people by supporting collaborative, interdisciplinary, cutting-edge research, and education.Â
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Focus Areas
Health Care Access and Coverage
Optimizing insurance and access to health care to provide high-quality health care.
Health Care Payment and Financing
Building a better health care system by redesigning payment and financing.
Health Equity
Improving health and reducing health disparities through a more equitable health care system.
Improving Care for Older Adults
Improving the health, well-being, independence, and care of older adults.
Substance Use Disorder
Finding sustainable, humane, and effective strategies to address substance use disorder.
Population Health
Focusing on how societal events, structural forces, and policies influence the health of populations.
Featured Research Updates
We support and amplify scholarship that shapes and expands the knowledge required to improve population health, health care delivery, and health policy.
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
Inside Medicare’s Stalled Shift to Value-Based Care
Former CMMI Leader Liz Fowler Cites Rigid Federal Scoring Rules and Bureaucratic Impatience for Pilot Failures
How Hospitals Can Ease Staff Burnout—and Improve Patient Safety Â
A Major European–U.S. Hospital Study Finds That Changing How Hospitals Are Organized Reduces Burnout and Turnover While Improving Care Quality
ED Psychiatric Boarding of Children Worsens Nationwide
Penn LDI Senior Fellow Dominic Sisti Cites “Alarming Levels”
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
Working Groups
Penn LDI’s working groups convene researchers with common interests to build collaborations and catalyze new activities.
Our Experts
Over 500 LDI Fellows from across the University of Pennsylvania are part of the Penn LDI community.
Randall Burson
- MD Student , Perelman School of Medicine
- PhD Student, Anthropology , School of Arts and Sciences
Aaron Richterman, MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Infectious Disease , Perelman School of Medicine
- Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy , Perelman School of Medicine
Hanming Fang, PhD
- Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor, Economics , School of Arts and Sciences
- Professor, Health Care Management , Wharton School
Anne Song, MD, MS
- Clinical Fellow, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care , Perelman School of Medicine
Reed Pyeritz, MD, PhD
- Professor Emeritus, Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
- Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
Srinath Adusumalli, MD, MSHP
- Vice President and Chief Health Information Officer, Penn Medicine
- Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
Wendy Henderson, PhD, CRNP
- Gail and Ralph Reynolds President’s Distinguished Professor
- Professor, Biobehavioral Health Sciences , Penn Nursing
Angela Chen, MA
- MD Student , Perelman School of Medicine
- PhD Student, Health Care Management and Economics , Wharton School