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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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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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How Small Rural Hospital Networks Are Leveling the Playing Field with Larger Health Systems

In North Dakota, references to the Rough Riders — a famed cavalry in the 1898 Spanish-American War — abound. The name graces hotels, grocery stores, and golf tournaments and has become a shorthand ...
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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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Digital Innovations at Community Health Centers: AI Clinical Decision Support for CHC Providers and Patients — the Promise and Peril

You’re looking up your symptoms online, and increasingly, so is your clinician. They’re not using Google but a new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) clinical decision support (CDS) tools. CDS ...
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Improving Medicare’s Home Health Benefit: Beneficiary Experiences and Priorities

Issue: Medicare’s home health benefit provides skilled nursing and therapy services to eligible homebound beneficiaries, yet it is not well understood. Goal: To collect firsthand perspectives from ...
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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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Mental Health Needs in the U.S. Compared to Nine Other Countries

Findings from the Commonwealth Fund 2023 International Health Policy Survey Like other high-income countries, the United States has experienced a rise in mental health conditions over the past four ...
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Medicare Reforms Support Behavioral Health by Expanding Access to Peer Support Specialists and Community Health Workers

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized reforms to Medicare payment for 2024 that will expand access to behavioral health care services. Notably, the reforms increase coverage ...
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Ensuring Access to Behavioral Health Providers

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) sets minimum provider network standards that all marketplace plans must meet to guarantee access to covered services, including behavioral health. Beginning in 2023, ...