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.
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
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
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
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.
Olivia Mitchell, PhD
- International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor , Wharton School
- Professor, Business Economics and Public Policy , Wharton School
Katherine Milkman, PhD
- James G. Dinan Professor , Wharton School
- Professor, Operations, Information and Decisions , Wharton School
Raina Merchant, MD, MSHP
- Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer , Perelman School of Medicine
- Professor, Emergency Medicine , Perelman School of Medicine
Jackson Reimer
- PhD Student, Health Care Management and Economics , Wharton School
Oluwadamilola (Lola) Fayanju, MD, MA
- Professor, Surgery , Perelman School of Medicine
Debra Whorms, MD
- Assistant Professor, Radiology , Perelman School of Medicine
Elaine Sang, MSN, RN
- PhD Student, NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health , Penn Nursing
Michael Sielski
- PhD Student, Health Care Management and Economics , Wharton School
- MD Student , Perelman School of Medicine