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  • Doctor talks to patiend while entering visit infomation into medical record.
    Expert Perspective

    AI Tools Promise Better Care but Challenge Safety-Net Providers

    Artificial intelligence is swiftly reshaping the health care landscape, but the impressive array of helpful new tools is not equally accessible to everyone.


  • Illustration of doctor using AI to assist in their work.
    Expert Perspective

    Harnessing AI’s Potential to Lift Up Underserved Communities

    California experts want to ensure that artificial intelligence doesn’t exacerbate existing racial or ethnic health disparities or set back efforts to advance inclusion and fairness.


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    Feature Story

    Why We Need a Rebirth of Trust in Health and Human Services

    Revitalizing safety-net programs can empower our communities’ most vulnerable members, foster self-reliance, build hope, and lift up everyone.


  • Cal HHS Secretary Mark Ghaly at the CHCF briefing on artificial intelligence. Photo: José Luis Villegas
    Expert Perspective

    Is AI Good for Health Equity? California Leaders Weigh In

    Artificial intelligence could revolutionize health care delivery, but its prodigious power also carries risks of perpetuating bias and inequities.


  • Kara Carter
    Expert Perspective

    Promises and Pitfalls

    A conversation on AI, health care, and equity with CHCF’s senior vice president for strategy and programs, Kara Carter.


  • Illustration of medical practitioners using artificial intelligence to evaluate a patient.

    AI and the Future of Health Care

    Experts hope to leverage the data-analyzing prowess of artificial intelligence to address pressing equity questions, improve diagnostics, and enhance state Medicaid operations.


  • Photo illustration of doctor using medical artificial intelligence chatbot
    Expert Perspective

    How Will the Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence Impact Health Care?

    The executive order establishes a framework for managing AI risks, directs federal action to regulate the use of health AI systems, and guides development of tools to advance AI innovation across sectors, including health.


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    Report

    ‘Dr. Google’ Meets Its Match: Dr. ChatGPT

    With the rise of generative AI, people who once turned to “Dr. Google” to check on medical symptoms are now turning to chatbots. Researchers say the bots are often more accurate, but they urge caution in the absence of any…


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    Breaking Ground: How California Is Using Medicaid to Improve the Health of People Leaving Incarceration

    This issue brief reviews this first real-world test of whether Medicaid coverage before jail or prison release will increase access to care and improve people’s health outcomes after they reenter the community.


  • Older couple talk to medical practitioner
    Case Study

    Implementation Guide for the California Federally Qualified Health Center Alternative Payment Model

    This guide is for leaders and staff in FQHCs that are considering or have committed to participating in the California Federally Qualified Health Center Alternative Payment Model.


  • Case Study

    Making the Case for Inpatient Palliative Care

    Leaders of public hospital inpatient palliative care services (IPPCs) often need to make the case to health system clinical and administrative leaders to secure resources needed to sustain, improve, or expand the palliative care service. The materials provided here review…