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Interdisciplinary writing on digital health, care delivery, and health policy — published on our Substack, Health Tech Happy Hour.

Jun 1, 2026

State Projects under the Rural Health Transformation Fund

What are states spending their money on?

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May 26, 2026

Utah’s AI Prescription Experiment

A look at UTAH's release of data from the first five months of the program

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May 14, 2026

The ACCESS Model’s Behavioral Health Track

Where Software Gross Margins Meet Medicare’s Mental Health Gap

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May 8, 2026

The AI Hype in Healthcare Needs Randomized Evidence

Two New Randomized Clinical Trials of AI Technologies Show Why

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May 6, 2026

A Cool Policy Solution to Core Health Policy Issues in the United States

A Model for Universal Primary Care and Childbirth Coverage Without "Single Payer"

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Apr 21, 2026

Randomization Inside a Medicare Payment Model, It's Really Cool

Why the ACCESS Evaluation Framework Might Matter More Than the Program Itself

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Apr 16, 2026

Analyzing the CMS ACCESS Model Participants List

A First Look at the ACCESS Model’s 150+ Accepted Applicants

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Apr 2, 2026

The LEAD Model at CMS

CMS’s Most Ambitious, yet complex, ACO Experiment Yet

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Mar 19, 2026

Can Lifestyle Medicine Finally Get Its Shot in Medicare?

An overview and review of the MAHA ELEVATE model from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)

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Mar 17, 2026

AI in the Hands of Clinicians: A Look at the Digital Stethoscope

It is not all about enterprise implementations and electronic health record integrations with AI

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Feb 27, 2026

How Medicare’s Care Management Codes Could Transform Chronic Disease Care

If Practices Can Figure Out How to Use Them

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Feb 15, 2026

The ACCESS Model and What is Really Going On Here

Medicare’s Bet on Software-Driven Chronic Care

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