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Workforce Development Drives Solutions to Rural Healthcare ShortagesDecember 2025
Rural communities face disproportionate shortages of healthcare professionals, resulting in diminished access to care, longer wait times, fewer available services, and, ultimately, poorer health outcomes.…
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Expert Interview
Responsible Synthetic Data: Unlocking Insights While Safeguarding PrivacyDecember 2025
From electronic health records (EHRs) to federal statistics, synthetic data are rapidly transforming how organizations share and analyze information, offering new ways to unlock insights…
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Expert Interview
Moving AHEAD by Overcoming Potential Challenges to Healthcare TransformationNovember 2025
Healthcare access and costs in the U.S. continue to move in opposite directions—access is declining while costs keep rising. Americans need innovative solutions that tackle…
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Innovative Small Area Modeling With Multivariate Estimation
January 5, 2021
Introduction Small area estimation (SAE) includes a variety of statistical techniques to predict survey outcomes typically for small geographic areas. Sampling information and data from…
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