AI in Health Care
Harnessing artificial intelligence to improve health care delivery and outcomes.
Focus Areas and Initiatives
Penn LDI’s work fits broadly under seven focus areas that highlight some of the most pressing challenges facing our nation’s health and health care.
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.
Population Health
Focusing on how societal events, structural forces, and policies influence the health of populations.
Substance Use Disorder
Finding sustainable, humane, and effective strategies to address substance use disorder.
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.
Estimated Overdose Deaths Due to the Loss of MOUD in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Research Memo: Delivered to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader John Thune
Health Impacts of SNAP Provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Research Memo: Delivered to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader John Thune
Fixing The Bill: How Better Medicare Cost Reporting Can Slash U.S. Health Care Waste
Hospitals’ Current Cost Reports are Unreliable and Should be Improved, LDI Fellow Finds
How Medicaid Cuts Could Force Millions Into Nursing Homes
If Federal Support Falls, States May Slash Home- and Community-Based Services — Pushing Vulnerable Americans Into Nursing Homes They Don’t Want or Need
Experts: Medicaid Cuts Could Prove Fatal for Thousands
Historic Coverage Loss Could Cause Over 51,000 People to Lose Their Lives Each Year, New Analysis Finds
Atul Gupta and Catherine Ishitani Win 2025 NIHCM Research Award
Cited for “Breaking New Ground” in the Field of Hospital Operations
Who Cares? Study Reveals 50 Years of U.S. Caregiving Trends
Men are Stepping Up at Home, but Caregiving Still Falls On Women and People of Color LDI Fellow Says
New Rules for Methadone Doses at Home Did Not Increase Overdoses
More Flexible Methadone Take-Home Policy Improved Patient Autonomy