A Jay Holmgren

So what questions should I ask the OpenAI speaker coming to UCSF next week

Same here. Would love to see UCSF cancel our enterprise ChatGPT subscription to swap to Anthropic but I doubt it.

Monitoring for Waste: Evidence from Medicare Audits* Abstract. This article examines the trade-offs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the qual

Imagine even having a successful model for this type of auditing at CMS already! If only academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future

Tbh this article is a good reason why econ needs models. The article is basically a very Marx-coded macro model where increasing amounts of labor-replacing capital kills off aggregate demand and causes mass unemployment. Okay, but a lot of assumptions go into that!

www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

Wait this is my bit

stancil agreeing to be profiled as part of a piece covering the situation in minneapolis, but then it only being about him, really gives away that our established media/political class *only* care about content and how it plays on twitter/etc.

they don't care about policy, they care about posts

Jewish Republican Randy Fine draws sharp criticism after suggesting he prefers dogs to Muslims - Jewish Telegraphic Agency Other Jewish politicians have joined the backlash to Fine's tweet.

Randy Fine's extremism and Islamophobia are a disgrace to Congress and antithetical to our Jewish values.

That’s why it’s sparked a wide rebuke from the Jewish community.

Coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb meme

WSJ editors vs Stacie is like the apex of this meme

The messaging I've heard from everyone is that AHRQ is not intending to fund any new grants at all for the forseeable future. We'll be lucky to get non-competing renewals to finish out existing awards is the assumption I've been operating under.

I can't believe you'd besmirch the olive burger like this. Growing up in Lansing didn't provide a lot of options for great food, we take what we can get.

No it doesn’t and you should read articles before you post them.

New paper in Health Affairs on the non-linearity of technical work in clinical practice: physicians who reduce their clinical volume do reduce their EHR burden, but to a smaller degree www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....

Spent the holidays setting up my Claude Code workflow and this is the first time AI has been such a large net-positive productivity increase. Our institutional deal with OpenAI feels outdated already!

One week from today!

Instant classic of an image via Getty

Texas Halts Hiring of H-1B Workers at State Colleges, Agencies Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered state agencies and public universities to immediately freeze new H-1B visa petitions, curtailing a program that has also been overhauled by President Donald Trump.

one of the least-appreciated own-goals happening right now is the deliberate sabotage of our knowledge/research sector www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Doctors and researchers love papers about themselves almost as much as Hollywood loves movies about movies.

Instagram ad for a pair of pants. One leg is red with small embroidered Santa Clauses. One leg is blue with embroidered dreidels.

These split Santa/dreidel embroidered critter chinos for fathers of interfaith preppy families might be the most culturally specific pair of pants I have ever seen.

On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.

How have I been distracting myself from The Horrors? Well…

Primary Care Clinicians Available for New Patient Visits This cross-sectional study examines changes in the numbers of primary care physicians and primary care advanced practice practitioners available for new patient primary care visits.

📖 Our new study in @jamainternalmed.com examines the primary care workforce serving fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries using a pragmatic, patient-centered measure: clinicians available for new patient visits per beneficiary.
👉Article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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I thought I was going to buy my first house this year but Donald Trump and the destruction of the world economic order has different ideas!

JPOW literally said

Some combination of upcoding, genuine additional care delivery, more accurate charge capture, etc. are the likely culprits. As always in health care, one mans ROI is another mans cost driver.

Ambient AI Scribes and Physician Financial Productivity This cohort study evaluates physician revenue, patient volumes, and claim denials among adopters and nonadopters of artificial intelligence–based clinical documentation tools in one health system.

New short research letter out today in JAMA Open - AI scribes increase RVU/visit, with a smaller increase in ambulatory visit volume jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

We mourn the loss of Stuart H. Altman, Ph.D., a leader in health policy and economics and the inaugural chair of the HPC.

“Dr. Altman dedicated his life to a health care system that is affordable and accessible for all,” said HPC Executive Director David Seltz.

Assistant/Associate Professor (2 Vacancies)

I am chairing the search for two (2) Tenure Track positions at the Department of Health Services, Policy and Management at
@uscarnoldschool.bsky.social

We are looking to move relatively fast so please get your applications in quickly

#HealthPolicy
#AcademicSky

uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

Yea we can hire professors on merit - merit of how much drip you had on PhD graduation

Lots of training to get Hobart not to eat sidewalk food but I can’t really blame him here