Dave S, MCP, MHI

My new favorite micro-automation: Parses our EM docs' clinical schedules from an ICS feed and creates a list of known shift while it emails the team a daily "heads up" on who is on-shift.

Fewer missed meetings, less friction. #ProcessImprovement

No good (or bad) technology is implemented without issue.

Kennedy abruptly cancels preventative care committee meeting HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has abruptly canceled a meeting of the USPSTF, an expert panel that evaluates the nation’s preventative care recommendations.

BREAKING: Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has abruptly canceled a meeting of the USPSTF expert panel that to some degree controls which preventative services are covered under insurance with its recommendations.

No reason was given.

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ICE Is Searching a Massive Insurance and Medical Bill Database to Find Deportation Targets The database, called ISO ClaimSearch, is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills.

Centralize all the healthcare data they said... What about security & privacy we asked... The benefits outweigh the risks they said... www.404media.co/ice-is-searc... #healthcare #privacy #security #bioethics

Weight loss provides far more benefit than just losing fat
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Talking to a co-worker today, I decided to run a quick python script on all my saved documents. not exhaustive it contains data (2000-2024). The aggregation of word hits brought me to this list.. if anything I think I could make this a 2025 bucket list item to use them all:

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper

Looking at this list, I apparently wrote like an AI before it was an AI thing. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...

Do you remember the Human Genome Project? I’m not sure the Trump administration wants you to The NIH archives of the Human Genome Project could fall victim to Trump administration cuts, writes a former archivist.

Remember when precision medicine was (is) all the rage? Hard to do that without research to understand what to be precise about... www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n...

Ending U.S.-global health research partnerships will cost America U.S. research on HIV, tuberculosis, Covid-19, mpox, and other fast-moving epidemics is under threat by a hastily announced NIH policy.

Thought this was already obvious, but I guess for anyone still wondering if these willy-nilly NIH cuts and AHA reorg are good: www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n...

Text graphic about managing crisis fatigue, recognizing crisisIf fatigue, coping with crisis fatigue. You are not alone. It’s ok to feel exhausted by the state of the world, but you don’t have to carry that weight alone. Taking care of your well-being is not avoidance — it’s necessary.

Yo resisters, Fed family, veterans, and all the fabulous LGBTQ peeps— #WeSeeYou

The crisis fatigue is real. Taking care of your well-being is not avoidance-it’s necessary.

Seek out your posse, do good work, ask for help when you need it. #Resist, rinse, repeat.

Get it trending: #WeSeeYou

I asked this question on a research administration list serve I am on and so far crickets, will let you know if that changes.

Got to share my work on clinical research workflow analysis and clinical research informatics at our Spring Research Day. Glad to demonstrate why measuring work as imagined and as done is so important in any highly specified environment. #clinicalresearch #healthcare

Vaccine expert worries child measles deaths are being 'normalized' : Consider This from NPR Measles is an extremely contagious disease. It's also extremely preventable. There's a vaccine. It's highly effective. For decades it has made measles outbreaks in the U.S. relatively rare, and measle...

Vaccine expert worries that child #measles deaths are being normalized by the Trump administration. Measles is an extremely contagious disease. It's also extremely preventable. There's a vaccine, and it's highly effective.
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Identifying erroneous height and weight values from adult electronic health records in the All of Us research program Electronic Health Records (EHR) are a useful data source for research, but their usability is hindered by measurement errors. This study investigated …

Congratulations to senior biostatistician Andrew Guide on first-authorship of a new paper in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Co-authors include Shawn Garbett, Paul Harris, and Cindy Chen, plus colleagues at VUMC, Ohio State, and Columbia.
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Drowning in patient emails, doctors start charging for their replies Messages to doctors in patient portal increased by 157 percent between early 2020 and late 2021, according to a study.

A 2021 study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that messages to doctors in patient portals increased by 157 percent between early 2020 and late 2021. And national data through mid-2022 show that the rates have stayed that high or even slightly increased.

The thing to understand re: OHRP/SACHRP, and so many of the axed programs/people, is that those "outside baseball" have no idea they exist, quietly working in the background to keep the American public safe. When things start to go wrong in research oversight + elsewhere, their absence will be felt.

America is not the sickest country in the world and Americans are not the sickest they’ve ever been. Anybody saying either of those things is LYING CAUSE THEY THINK YOU’RE STUPID. Don’t let them. You can’t fix public health by eliminating it.

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

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Study suggests an mRNA vaccine could make humans resistant to ticks bearing Lyme disease Scientists move toward trying to develop an mRNA vaccine against Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.

Scientists move toward trying to develop an mRNA vaccine against Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.

Trump cuts threaten a measurement lab critical for advanced chips and medical devices The Atomic Spectroscopy Group provides standardized measurements used across wide swaths of science and industry. The Trump administration plans to cut it.

Yesterday I reported on the closure of the Atomic Spectroscopy Group, which maintains a database of all the spectral lines produced by atoms and ions.

One Q people kept asking me was: "Don't we already know about atomic spectra?"

The answer is quite interesting... 🧵

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This is Yale Professor Timothy Snyder, who studies authoritarians and tyranny, with a warning.

He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.

A cartoon by Dave Coverly

They're not even trying to hide it anymore. They're coming for Social Security.

Musk Targeted FEMA. Disaster-Stricken Communities Are Paying a Price. (Gift Article) A FEMA funding freeze illustrates the extraordinary power of Elon Musk and DOGE, who have made claims of undue benefits for undocumented immigrants and spurred swift action by federal officials.

Hello Bluesky! This is my first post, and I'm starting with a story I published today, about FEMA halting almost all its grant funding. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/musk-fema-immigrations-doge-freeze-aid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7E4.IepP.vPJ_HHn4Amqb&smid=bs-share

The administration describes these as concepts of a war plan.

I'd like one ticket to 'off this train.'

In what world is abruptly ending contracts that fund SUD treatment a great idea?

Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services States have been told that they can no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services.

In Lubbock, TX, public health officials received orders to stop work supported by 3 grants that helped fund the response to the widening #measles outbreak.

#MedSky #IDSky #HIV #prevention #publichealth #addiction #mentalhealth #SAMHSA #CDC

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Biological databases in the age of generative artificial intelligence Abstract. Summary: Modern biological research critically depends on public databases. The introduction and propagation of errors within and across database

From #OUP @bioinfoadv.bsky.social journal, our paper is out, from discussions we had last summer at @iscb.bsky.social #ISMB2024 in #Montréal | Biological #databases in the age of generative artificial intelligence | #Bioinformatics #AI #LLM #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 
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