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
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As the new year begins, we look back on a dozen of the most heavily read LDI news stories published in 2024. They reflected many of health care policy’s most pressing matters, including pharmacy benefit managers’ chokehold on drug pricing; imperiled rural hospitals; inadequate nurse staffing; quality, cost, and integration issues in multiple federal programs; the rising wave of anti-DEI politics; equity in gene therapy treatment; and the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical settings.

Mark Cuban Explains His Battle Against Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Report from His Penn Fireside Chat with Ezekiel Emanuel about Drug Pricing

Exploring the Policies That Are Closing Rural Hospitals
A Penn LDI Virtual Seminar Looks at Trends Driving the Crisis

Medicare Hospice – Exploding in Size But Riddled with Quality Concerns
LDI Virtual Panel of Experts Explores the Benefit’s Challenges and Potential

The Population Health Calamity Evidenced in U.S. Life Expectancy Statistics
And What it Portends for Aging Adult Health in the Coming Decades

How a Rising Wave of Anti-DEI Politics Harms Patients and Health Workers
Third Annual Sandy Schwartz Memorial Grand Rounds Focuses on Spread of DEI Restrictions

Is Value-Based Care Making Headway in Community Health Centers?
Not Much, According to Experts at a Penn LDI Virtual Seminar

Sustainable Funding and Equitable Access for Multimillion Dollar Gene Therapies
Penn LDI Panel Unpacks Barriers and Options for Change

How Well Do Fetal Care Centers Meet the Needs of Highly Complex Patients and Families?
A Penn Study Creates a Person-Centered Care Measurement Instrument

Fixing Medicare’s Problem of Inadequately Coordinated Care
Penn LDI’s Amol Navathe Testifies Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance

A New $250 Million Approach to Addressing Health Care Patients’ Food Insecurities
Penn Plays a Major Scientific Role in New Initiative Backed by the American Heart Association and Rockefeller Foundation-Led Consortium

How Nurse Staffing Variations were Associated with Hospital Patient Deaths During the COVID Pandemic
New Study Looks Back at Conditions That Speak to Future Hospital Emergency Preparedness

The Future Promise and Risk of Generative AI in Clinical Settings
Report from the Penn LDI AI in Health Care Conference
See popular and noteworthy LDI research blog posts of the past year here.
A Licensure Model May Offer Safer Oversight as Clinical AI Grows More Complex, a Penn LDI Doctor Says
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
Failure to Include Diverse Populations Undermines Innovation in the Age of Precision Medicine
Chen and Roberts in Top 10, Groeneveld a Top 10 Finalist
How Political Rhetoric and Behind-the-Scenes Deal-Making Obscure Who Really Pays – or How Much
Even With Lower Prices, Medicare, Medicaid, and Other Insurers Tighten Coverage for Drugs Like Mounjaro and Zepbound Using Prior Authorization and Other Tools