Naveen Muthu

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

AMIA 2025 Annual Symposium The Annual Symposium convenes thousands of informaticians from around the world to share research and insights for leveraging health information and cutting-edge technologies to improve human health.

Don't miss The Informatics Year in Review keynote from Dr. James Cimino, MD, FACMI, FACP, FAMIA at #AMIA2025 this November in Atlanta!

Explore what Annual Symposium has in store: amia.org/education-ev...

#HealthInformatics #ClinicalInformatics #DigitalHealth #PublicHealth

A challenge with AI adoption is that organizations are not built to a Grand Plan where AI can just be slotted in by leaders, but rather socially constructed, semi-random & in flux

Here's an anecdote from a paper on how a CEO realized he didn't understand how things really worked (& that nobody did)

What happens in SAIL 2025 stays in SAIL 2025 -- except for these anonymized hot takes! 🔥 Jotted down 17 de-identified quotes on AI and medicine from medical executives, journal editors, and academics in off-the-record discussions in Puerto Rico

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U.S. government researchers present 'phenomenal' new data on HPV vaccines A new study seems to confirm that a single dose of the vaccine used to prevent HPV infection is just as effective as two — and, therefore, also helps to prevent cancer.

The real "one and done." Remarkable new data supporting the HPV vaccine prevention of cancer.
www.statnews.com/2025/04/28/h... by @matthewherper.bsky.social @statnews.com

Packed house at #PAS2025 Kickstart your Scholarly Work with AI by your Side

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
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AI deployments in health are often understudied because they require time and careful analysis.⌛️🤔

We share thoughts in @ai.nejm.org about a recent AI tool for emergency dept triage that: 1) improves wait times and fairness (!), and 2) helps nurses unevenly based on triage ability

here's the graphic... please share far and wide. #VaccinesWork.

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

FDA cuts hit AI division, even as Trump invests in the technology Layoffs at the FDA appear to have hit the AI and digital health staff particularly hard. It also has a strained relationship with Musk’s company Neuralink.

Firings at FDA over the weekend taking out A.I. staff
www.statnews.com/2025/02/16/f... Note the subtitle.

“Researched models aren’t implemented. Implemented models aren’t researched.”

Karandeep Singh, Chief Health AI Officer @ucsdhealth.bsky.social & associate prof @jchi-ucsd.bsky.social, closes out the keynote session by discussing the health AI paradox.

@kdpsingh.bsky.social #SPIEMedicalImaging

“Vaccines against 14 common pathogens have saved 154 million lives over the past five decades—at a rate of six lives every minute. They have cut infant mortality by 40 percent globally and by more than 50 percent in Africa”

In the present discussions about NIH and the need for reform, two recurring points I am seeing are:

(1) NIH doesn't fund truly high impact research

(2) NIH needs to experiment with alternative approaches to peer review, particularly for high risk-high impact research

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📢 Deadline Extension 📢

Need more time to finish your submission? Good news, we're giving you another month to write your stories about #CDS failures for this ACI Special Topic! @pediatriccds.org

📅 Deadline: Jan 2, 2025

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Me, lying down immediately after thanksgiving dinner: “alright gastroesophageal sphincter, your time to shine.”