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To use AI tools effectively, local leaders must optimize documents and information for AI, implement guardrails, and rely on human expertise to evaluate risks and benefits.
Data Walks: Getting data into the community’s hands This innovative approach to reviewing data was more engaging to participants, less intimidating, and more focused on each person’s lived experience.The promise and performance of all-payer rate setting: Just what the doctor ordered? Maryland tested a system in which health care payers pay a fixed sum that creates an annual global budget for a given hospital—with promising results.AHRQ is vital to health policy research Without AHRQ data, our analyses of policy related to the ACA, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program would be seriously hampered.Six new insights about Americans’ borrowing habits How do Americans use debt throughout their lifetime? We recently examined the credit records of more than 5 million consumers to find out.Antidepressants and the ACA: Is your prescription covered and how hard is it to find out? Antidepressants are the most commonly used prescription drugs for adults 18 to 44. But coverage under the Affordable Care Act varies widely by state.Diabetes in the food-pantry line: how food banks can help reach the hard-to-reach People choosing between buying food and medicine may all but give up on managing a disease. Food pantries are ideal sites for health interventions.
