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Benefits from quality competition in health care? Impact of debt ceiling deal on health programs. Signals that are so clear you don’t need statistics, and signals that are so weak that statistical analysis can’t help. Health equity impact of sickle cell gene therapy. Primer on drug development from Derek Lowe. Central Limit Theorem explained.

Consumer perceptions of oncology trial endpoints. Rural upbringing increasing likelihood MDs move to rural areas. Pain in the US. Cost sharing, prior authorization, and specialty drug utilization. Drug affordability panel?

AI in the operating room. Estimated annual Medicare spending on Alzheimer’s drug. On remote work: “The Power of Proximity to Coworkers” Price vs. cost. Issues with publicly available price data. On the definition of a timely diagnosis: “Our health care system assumes the diagnostic journey begins when the patient is first seen by a clinician…However,…

Three parent baby? Area Deprivation Index only reflects median home price?  Organ on a chip? Using the “uptrend effect” to increase rates of exercise.  Cognitive activity at work and the risk of dementia

Impact of retirement on health. JAMA articles on physician use of AI (1, 2, 3) Is the COVID-19 emergency over? What EHR reforms are needed? Pharma vs. PBM: patients lose out?

Human Genome Project: twenty years later  ICER’s UPI protocol. Cross-market hospital mergers. UnitedHealth 1Q profits: $5.8 billion. Cancer vaccine in the works.

The future of nursing homes. FDA and digital health technologies. Explaining corporate America’s aggressive investment in primary care Full vs. partial choice set design in DCEs. VC funding slow-down for biotech.

Khan Academy and GPT-4. ClinicalTrials.gov vs. PubMed. Judge rules on coverage of preventative care. Health insurance mandates and marriage. Medicaid-for-all back on the table?

Threats to Medicare’s new drug negotiation power Drugs likely to be involved in Medicare price negotiation. Future of the US vaccine programs. Will GPT automate your job out of existence?  Drone delivery of medical supplies (and other things) explained.

The public health effect of legalizing marijuana. Source of cross-country health care spending differences. Sociodemographics and HVBP scores. Nursing homes: Cash flow and COVID-19 cases. Affirmative action in health care? Plus a few AI links: AI comes to Google Workspace. AI and productivity.