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The Matching Problem: Why Finding the Right One Is So Hard, and Why AI Can’t Fix It

Jul 11, 2026

A few weeks ago I listened to a group of friends vent about dating apps: the endless swiping, the false starts, the fatigue. I could relate....

The Million-Dollar Slide: A Sharper Way to Think About Real-World Data Quality

Jul 05, 2026

by Lixia Yao, PhD At the DIA 2026 Annual Meeting, I sat through hundreds of slides. Most conveyed useful information. A few introduced new ideas. But...

Trust the Experts—But Which Experts?

Jun 12, 2026

“Leave professional matters to the professionals.” It’s one of those pieces of advice that feels self-evidently correct—and it is. We rely on physicians for...

The Adult in the Room: What Gwynne Shotwell Teaches Us About Women's Leadership

Jun 10, 2026

Elon Musk once said that without Gwynne, SpaceX would have gone under long ago. Most people have never heard her name. That gap — between how essential...

A 5-Minute Guide to Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Under the IRA

May 16, 2026

Prescription drug pricing in the United States has long been a focal point of health policy debate. For Medicare beneficiaries, particularly older adults and individuals living...

Synthetic Data vs. Real-World Data: A Reality Check for Healthcare AI

Dec 15, 2025

I first encountered the concept of synthetic data back in 2013, while teaching a health informatics course as a tenure-track assistant professor at UNC Charlotte. To...

Drug Development Program Done Right: A Practical Checklist to Prevent Strategic Blind Spots

Nov 28, 2025

In the high-stakes world of pharmaceutical R&D, thousands of drug candidates are abandoned every year long before reaching patients. The harsh reality: fewer than...

QALYs Explained: The Metric That’s Shaping—and Dividing—Healthcare Policy

Nov 10, 2025

Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) are a cornerstone concept in health economics. They measure the value of medical treatments by considering both how long people live and...

Value-Based Health Care: Shifting the Focus from Quantity to Quality

Oct 23, 2025

Understand how value-based health care shifts focus from volume to outcomes, rewarding better results, reducing costs and improving patient care....

Budget Impact Models: A Practical Tool for Healthcare Decision-Making

Oct 07, 2025

Learn how Budget Impact Models help payers and HTA agencies assess short-term affordability of new healthcare treatments alongside cost-effectiveness analysis....

New White Paper: Charting the Landscape of Real-World Data in the U.S.

Oct 01, 2025

Learn how real-world data is transforming U.S. healthcare and life sciences. Our new white paper maps datasets, applications, challenges, and future directions....

Polygon Health Analytics Celebrates Graduation of 2025 Launchpad Cohort

Sep 03, 2025

[Philadelphia, September 2, 2025] – Polygon Health Analytics proudly announces the successful graduation of its 2025 Launchpad Program cohort—the second since the program’s inception—marking...