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.


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