Nate Apathy

Electronic health record market consolidation and implications for cybersecurity Abstract. Over the past decade, the electronic health record (EHR) market has become increasingly consolidated, with the majority of care delivery organiza

Consolidation in the EHR market -- where there are 2 dominant vendors -- is creating a big risk of a catastrophic cybersecurity event.

@ajh.bsky.social, @natea.bsky.social, and I ponder the possibility of a "single-point-of-failure" risk in the EHR market in this Health Affairs Scholar commentary

NLM R01 Notice of Award

Obviously a strange time, but thrilled to receive my first R01 from NLM. Excited to combine some of my favorite things (instrumental variables and EHR metadata) to develop context-specific causal estimates of the value of viewing outside data delivered via HIE w/ MPI @natea.bsky.social

There are tons of great insights along these lines in Rick Rubin's book "The Creative Act" all about his lessons learned in the music industry. The whole time I was like "this is also true of research!"

Loss of Subsidized Drug Coverage and Mortality among Medicare Beneficiaries | NEJM A total of 14 million Medicare beneficiaries receive the Low-Income Subsidy (LIS), which reduces cost sharing in Medicare Part D. Losing the LIS may impede medication access and affect mortality. U...

Eric Roberts and @joefigs.bsky.social led a groundbreaking new study on Medicaid and Medicare, out today in NEJM. I’m lucky to have been a part of it.

Medicare saves lives. But is it enough to save lives of the most vulnerable Americans? The study suggests no; Medicaid still matters. (1/11)

🚨 Rethinking Moral Hazard: Moral hazard in health insurance—the increased spending that comes when you get insured—is usually seen as wasteful due to insurance’s price distortion. This paper challenges that view.

A friend (and disgruntled former HHS staffer) just summed up the situation at HHS as best as I've heard so far:

"They are just systematically committed to ruining anyone’s ability to understand anything."

Dr. Feyman is a talented health policy researcher with an impressive track record. I'm confident whatever institution hires him next will be better for it. scholar.google.com/citations?us...

RFK is planning to merge ASPE and AHRQ into one "Office of Strategy" at HHS. Unlikely to be good news for AHRQ's research mission.

from @wsj.com

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

🚨I've posted BRFSS data in SAS, R, and Stata formats for 1987-2023 here on this Mendeley Data Repository

Free to use without restriction!

data.mendeley.com/datasets/shs...

NIH grant submission coming up? cool, same!

Less great: eRA Commons... appears to be inaccessible

In a new Health Affairs publication, UCSF researchers and colleagues identify how #AI and predictive models are used and evaluated for accuracy and bias. Read more about their findings: www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

What if we started a pod-- wait, nope, caught it. 👍 Close call

going to use my first post here for an update... I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined the University of Maryland School of Public Health as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy & Management! Really excited to join this stellar faculty! new email is nca at umd dot edu.

I've seen these described as "specification plots" cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Hi Folks, @VUHealthPol is hiring!

Open rank tenure line search to come work with a terrific group of 20 primary and 20 secondary faculty, super smart MPH and PhD students!

Apply here by December 15: apply.interfolio.com/135635