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In “Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale,” Jonathan Barnett, retired professor of practice in the Weitzman School of Design describes how to redesign megaregional growth using mostly private investment, without having to wait for massive government funding or new governmental structures. In this excerpt, Barnett lays out three new initiatives that can reshape current trends in regional design.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
As media reports about shortages of ventilators and hospital beds show, the COVID-19 pandemic will most probably lead to rationing of care. This opinion piece explores the likely impact of care rationing in the absence of the best possible information on decision quality, patients, and care providers. The authors also consider the potential benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) in guiding decisions about how care can be rationed.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
More than 10 percent of the facilities in the United States that perform transcatheter aortic valve replacement saw worse than expected outcomes in terms of survival and quality of life among patients who underwent the procedure. A team at Penn developed a metric to assess the performance of sites nationwide based on patient outcomes.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Wharton’s Greg Shea discusses the potential benefits of artificial intelligence in guiding decisions about how care can be rationed.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Hospitalized patients with COVID-19 have high rates of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). A new study sheds light on the mortality attributable to ARDS in sepsis patients, and provides a mortality benchmark for future studies of patients with COVID-19.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Federal income tax law expert and Alvin L. Snowiss Professor of Law Reed Shuldiner parses out the language of the notice to provide a clear statement of the announced changes to tax filing and payment rules.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
LDI Senior Fellow Hanming Fang, and colleagues quantify the effects of the lockdown of the city of Wuhan on January 23, 2020, showing that it played a crucial role in reducing cases of COVID-19 in other Chinese cities and halting the spread of the virus.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
A new Penn study uncovers key mechanisms behind embryonic development, moving the regenerative medicine field closer to developing cell therapies.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
In “Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale,” Jonathan Barnett, retired professor of practice in the Department of City and Regional Planning, describes how to redesign megaregional growth using mostly private investment, without having to wait for massive government funding or new governmental structures.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
When Flip Flop, a 12-year-old warmblood gelding, suffered multiple injuries while racing, a quick referral to New Bolton Center resulted in the full attention of multiple specialists in one location: surgeons, criticalists, radiologists, anesthesiologists, and others.
FULL STORY AT Penn Vet →
