Health Care Policy

PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel says that the pharmaceutical industry has a bias but that he doesn’t necessarily see an overreliance on industry money in research.

Research by Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing suggested that standardizing nurse-to-patient ratios could prevent deaths, save hospitals money, and boost patient satisfaction.

Robin and Marc Wolpow donated $10 million to establish the Fund for Healthcare Entrepreneurship at the Wharton School’s Venture Lab.

An analysis led by the Perelman School of Medicine found that roughly 30% of the more than 5,000 independent oncologists in the U.S. have on-site pharmacies in their practices.

David Asch of the Perelman School of Medicine worries about ChatGPT’s overly confident communication and the amplification of medical misinformation.

Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing says that Pennsylvania has sufficient registered nurses, just not enough nurses providing patient care in hospitals.

A Penn Medicine study found that Pandemic-era Medicaid rules resulted in coverage for more than 655,000 additional children.

A study by Alexander Moffett of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues found that use of a race-neutral reference equation resulted in an increased number of Black people with respiratory impairment and increased severity of impairment.

Emily Largent of the Perelman School of Medicine hopes that blood-based tests will lower two long-standing barriers to the uptake of Alzheimer’s biomarker testing: high cost and high patient burden.

Jennifer Prah of the School of Social Policy & Practice and the Perelman School of Medicine says that any online group trying to function as a safe space needs to set clear guidelines that must be followed.