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.
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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.
Hospital Ads Raised ER Visits and Medicare Spending, Innovative LDI Study Says
For-Profit Hospitals Saw the Largest ER Gains, With Smaller Effects at Nonprofits
Lawmakers Focused the Most on Mass Shootings in Gun Violence Posts
Officials Should Frame Gun Violence as a Public Health Crisis and Promote Evidence-Based Prevention, LDI Fellows Say
What Do You Know About the History of the U.S. Health System?
Milestones Like Medicare, Private Equity and Now AI Shape a $4.9 Trillion System. Can You Name Them?
Unhealthy Housing Is a Public Health Threat, Penn’s Cheryl Bettigole Says
Former Philadelphia Health Commissioner Releases Policy Brief as City Council Weighs Stronger Tenant Protections
AI Device Firms Pay $60M to U.S. Doctors, Raising Oversight Concerns
In a First-of-Its-Kind Analysis, Researchers Track Industry Payments Tied to AI Medical Devices and Call for Stronger FDA Oversight, Transparency, and Aid for Underserved Hospitals
When Insurers Acquire Pharmacy Benefit Managers, Medicare Members Could Pay More
Health Insurer Acquisition of PBMs — the Prescription Drug Middlemen — Raised Premiums for Some Part D Beneficiaries
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.
Antonia Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN
- Margaret Bond Simon Dean , Penn Nursing
- Professor, Family and Community Health , Penn Nursing
Guy David, PhD
- Alan B. Miller Professor, Health Care Management , Wharton School
- Professor, Health Policy and Medical Ethics , Perelman School of Medicine
Justinna Dixon, PhD, RN
- Postdoctoral Fellow, National Clinician Scholars Program , Penn Nursing
Mario DeMarco, MD, MPH
- Associate Professor, Clinical Family Medicine and Community Health , Perelman School of Medicine
Paula Magee, MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Critical Care , Perelman School of Medicine
Jonathan Zhu, BSN
- PhD Student, Nursing , Penn Nursing
Susan Renz, PhD, RN
- Professor, Family and Community Health , Penn Nursing
Sue Hyon Kim, MSN, RN
- PhD Student, Nursing , Penn Nursing