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Improving Access to Medicare Home Health Care: Key Policy Considerations

Misaligned payment and quality incentives, Medicare Advantage practices, and workforce constraints can limit Medicare ...
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Patients’ Perspectives on AI in Primary Care

Patients view the use of AI in primary care as inevitable but see opportunities for the technology to improve care and ...
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Digital Innovations at Community Health Centers: AI Clinical Decision Support for CHC Providers and Patients — the Promise and Peril

AI Clinical Decision Support for CHC Providers and Patients — the Promise and Peril. Dr. Andy Beck, cofounder and CEO of ...
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States Are Using Creative Strategies to Help Older Adults and Individuals with Disabilities Live Independently

States Are Using Creative Strategies to Help Older Adults and Individuals with Disabilities Live Independently. Diane Shields ...
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Improving Medicare’s Home Health Benefit: Beneficiary Experiences and Priorities

While most Medicare home health experiences are positive, gaps remain in beneficiary knowledge, care coordination, and access ...
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States Are Planning Their Responses to H.R. 1 Cuts in Medicaid Funding — Will Enrollees Lose Benefits?

Explore our newly updated, enhanced, and expanded International Health Care System Profiles to learn how 31 countries across six continents approach health care. Over the next 10 years, federal ...
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U.S. and Global Approaches to Financing Long-Term Care: Understanding the Patchwork

Explore our newly updated, enhanced, and expanded International Health Care System Profiles to learn how 31 countries across six continents approach health care. Most United States adults age 65 and ...
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Meagan C. Fitzpatrick

Faculty, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., joined the faculty of the Center for Vaccine Development and Global ...
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U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2026

Countries around the world are grappling with the shared challenges of rising health care costs, physician burnout, and aging populations.1 Yet the United States has long been an outlier in several ...