Up next at #AMIA2025 is Revenue vs. Cost Center: How Clinical Informaticists Can Boost Their Organizations' Bottom Line — a PINA-sponsored panel highlighting how CDS, analytics, training, & AI can drive financial + clinical impact.

We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

The American Academy of Pediatrics is proud to stand with leading public health organizations by taking legal action to protect the integrity of our immunization system to defend science, evidence-based medicine, and the policies that keep children safe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DODV...

Never been prouder to be an #AAP member! #VaccinesWork

The lawsuit alleges that Kennedy and other political appointees at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have flouted federal procedures and systematically attempted to mislead the public.

Are you ready with your Clinical Informatics Fellowships applications? Remember, we are on a July cycle, which means that you can begin submitting to  programs on July 2nd at 9 a.m. ET. Here's a helpful guide for you. www.acifellows.org/future-fellows #clinicalinformatics #clinformatics

Unbelievable. #RFK is setting the state of American medical sciences back DECADES. Thanks, Dr. Kressly, for calling this nonsense out. #VaccinesWork

Docs get tons of #PatientPortal messages, some more urgent than others. Can #LLMs with Retrieval-Augmented Generation be used to identify emergencies from these messages? @allisonbmccoy.phd academic.oup.com/jamia/advanc...

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

We'll leave you with this: 7/7

476 of these measles cases are linked to a large regional outbreak in the Southwest. Experts warn that this number may be a severe undercount. 2/11

More Measles Maryland reports a new case linked to international travel—not connected to the Texas/New Mexico outbreak. Potential exposures: - Dulles International Airport (arrivals baggage claim) - Johns Hopkins Howard County Pediatric ER health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pag...

#delabel #savepenicillins Removing allergy labels is hard! We need to work on preventing allergy labels from ever making it to the chart!

There's always a few withdrawn presentations at conferences, but seeing 3 withdrawals in a session on diversity is sad. I wonder how many CDC & NIH colleagues couldn't come? #CROI2025

🧪 AI is exposing errors in research papers, fast. Tools like the Black Spatula Project and YesNoError use AI to catch mistakes in calculations, methodology, and references before they spread. 🩺💻 #MLSky #AcademicSky

How much would it take to entice you to review a journal article? $50? $100? $250? $1000? #medsky medicineminute.substack.com/p/you-dont-h...

Nice to see publications of implemented AI/ML #CDSS models, but this one is very light on the details. Particularly Table 2. 🤔 #informatics

A reminder that even non-Avian #influenza can kill you (or your child)! 47 children have lost their lives so far this season to influenza. #getVaccinated #FightFlu #flu #VaccinesWork

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

In 2023 RFK Jr said “their are much better candidates than HIV for what causes AIDS”, e.g. pointing instead to amyl nitrate poppers popular in the gay club scene in the 1980s. Just imagine how such abject misinformation hurts the families below and the 40M people living with AIDS across the globe.

Seeing a TON of kids being admitted with RSV, COVID and Influenza over the holidays. A bit frustrating because we have effective immunizations for all three!! #Nirsevimab #FluVaccine #COVIDVaccine #PedsID #IDSky

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

I bet the one thing all the experts agree on is that neither of these clowns should be remotely involved in matters of public health

Conan remains the best late night host ever. Also, check out his podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend”.

Fascinating JAMIA paper compares EHR note volume to literature. Emergency physicians went from reading Orwell (2006) to Moby Dick (2023) per patient. The metaphor feels apt - we're all just searching for meaning, amidst vast seas of text. #EMedSky pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Jeffries: In our nation's history, 25% of our nation's debt was accumulated during the four years of the former president, 25%. How dare you lecture America about fiscal responsibility ever.

Laboratory stewardship is important! And never waste a crisis to make that burning platform #labstewardship #cds 🩺💻

The American Medical Association surveyed doctors about insurance “prior authorizations” and found: 41 prior auths per doctor per week 13 hours spent per week on prior auths 24% reported hospitalizations due to delays from prior auths 8% reported disability/deaths due to delays from prior auths

Steven Bartlett accused of amplifying dangerous health claims on his podcast

Storytime. In 2005, my mom died from cancer, but the real cause was the actions taken by an insurance company 12 years earlier. What happened to her was evil, hard to identify or fight, and hidden from the public by legal mechanisms. Because of that, I have no idea how often it has happened.

As NYPD officials boasted of the resources expended finding the killer of a corporate CEO, another sidewalk murder the same week, of a migrant teen, has not received the same treatment. hellgatenyc.com/two-manhatta...

THREAD So your Attention Score went down because people are rage-deleting their Twitter accounts. Why is that happening? Should I be worried? Should I see my doctor? Let's get into what the Attention Score actually is, how it's impacted by posts and deletions, WITH THE HELP OF MEMES. 1/20

Staggering statistics at #ASH24 #TreatingFairly Patients with cancer who go bankrupt are nearly 80% more likely to die regardless of disease status. Our system quite literally kills people.

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”

I know somebody died but that doesn’t mean you have to say nice things about health insurance companies. They won’t approve your claims. They will fuck you though.

"oops, I meant to send that to someone else!" Higher volume secure messaging users associated with increased risk of wrong-patient ordering. #wrongpatient #EHR #patientsafety #HealthIT #informatics

📢 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 🔗 bit.ly/48ngTfg

Got the chance to ride in several @waymo.bsky.social during a recent visit to SF, and am convinced that removing humans from the driver seat is the necessary next step.

You know what we actually need AI for? Predicting when it would NOT be a major pain in the butt to have a forced restart/update on my work laptop. 😖 #GuessImDoneForTheDay #SaveAllTheTabs #AI #AIFail

Diagnosis is a sociotechnical process so how do hospitals promote diagnostic excellence? We partnered with CDC to develop The Core Elements of Hospital Diagnostic Excellence in consultation with AHRQ and CMS #Medsky More here: www.cdc.gov/patient-safe... Paper: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Making a list of classic 80s Christmas specials to share with my daughter. I think this one goes right between Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas and Claymation Christmas Celebration. #christmasspecials

A friend sent this article to me today. It feels like a good moment to remind us: the LLM outperformed physicians on STRUCTURED cases. Someday the AIs may perform better than us in the unstructured, messy, real-world patient encounter...but that day is not today.🩺🛟 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

On this OSU/Michigan gameday, we remind you Michigan’s rail system is better than Ohio’s. We can’t let this stand. Advocate, donate and visit allaboardohio.org to help Ohio overtake Michigan in yet another way. #gobucks

Cervical cancer mortality in US women younger than 25 years significantly declined between 2016 and 2021, likely due to the widespread adoption of HPV vaccination. ja.ma/4i9ghPC

Excited to share my forest cover map of California created with Copernicus Global Land Service (100m resolution). Got a passion for maps? Check out my tutorial on how to make 3D forest cover maps: youtu.be/bvlB5yb_uVQ #dataviz #maps #rstats #california #forest

You'll be happy to know that we've already got the first issue's cover ready to go for the Journal of Pediatric Clinical Decision Support. #hoponthattrain #acceptingsubmissions #notactuallyarealjournal #pleasedontsendmesubmissions #thanksChatGPT