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Top Dozen 2024 LDI News Stories
Focusing in on Health Care Policy’s Most Pressing Issues
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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
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