🚨New Paper🚨 US doctors are paid very different amounts for treating different patients—even when providing identical services. How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients? In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

If you would rather live in Boston than Chicago you are an idiot

Brown University’s Division of Biology and Medicine is seeking a teaching track faculty member to teach courses in statistics and AI for its graduate programs as well as contribute to a new Master’s in Health Informatics program. Application Deadline: January 15, 2026. apply.interfolio.com/176254

It's a bad time to be in the knowledge production business, Exhibit 9,341.

Insane for the pseudo-academic exposed for pretty severe plagiarism to lecture someone on ethics for the violation of… having a twitter account.

I think this is mostly San Francisco finally shrugging off the pandemic, but it is *really* funny that rent prices in San Francisco shot up *immediately* after the city banned RealPage and other algorithmic price setting software. My pre trends are incredible!

Some thoughts on optimizing prior authorization in Medicare Advantage, co-authored with some of my favorite scholars @hneprash.bsky.social, @michaelannica.bsky.social, and @egolberstein.bsky.social, and supported by @commonwealthfund.org www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2025/re...

THINGS HAPPEN?!

This is *depraved* -- glamor shots & an exculpatory feature for a woman who shit on the key central tenets of journalism, repeatedly. NYT is celebrating elite freedom from accountability. Actively celebrating it. You wouldn't put this in a satire, it's too ham-handed!

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a reporter state the Golden Rule of Journalism (“it’s not a scandal if it happens in public”) so openly.

As the ~discourse~ seems to bend interminably towards Republicans trying to figure out how they can (further) HDHP-ify ACA coverage, it's worth revisiting what is probably our best (most rigorous) study on the effect of deductibles in health insurance. academic.oup.com/qje/article-...

🚨 JOB MARKET PAPER ALERT! 🚨 Why do firms provide different workplace amenities? And how does amenity provision affect labor market inequality? 🧵

Can't believe I underestimated the degree to which many of our nations foremost losers with lefty podcasts judged political candidates solely on "stated leftists beliefs + gruff white man aesthetics" rather than actions. I think a Nazi tattoo is a pretty fair thing to say "wait a minute!" about.

The more evidence mounts that Platner is lying, the more convinced I become that he is lying not only about his past but also about his current views.

Obviously.

If you have a rapid turnaround, policy-relevant paper you want to get out there quickly - come to Health Affairs Scholar! Also true for informatics and AI-relevant policy work. I've been an editorial fellow this year and will be joining as an AE in January and this is a great venue for IT papers!

❗NEW RAPID POLICY ANALYSIS RESEARCH ❗ With @colemandrake.bsky.social & Dylan Nagy we analyzed the affordability implications of the new 9/4/25 announcement that all individuals with incomes >250% FPL can purchase CATASTROPHIC plans in the ACA academic.oup.com/healthaffair... 1/4

The Platner defenses are so black-pilling to me. Why are so many people so invested in defending him, he has existed to most of us for like a month!

Senator Wiener took up the cause of ending the California housing crisis a decade before it was cool, took a lot of body blows advancing real solutions, and never gave up on the cause. That's leadership.

Americans want a politician like them (derogatory)

The pointed clarity with which each of the universities rejecting the compact have made this point is incredibly refreshing. From the University of Arizona's president: president.arizona.edu/sites/defaul...

The Groypers are on a long march through the institutions and right-wing Jews are way too complacent about the idea that it’ll be fine because these people also hate Muslims.

Incredibly honored to receive the @amia.org New Investigator award this year. So many people to thank, starting with my nominators Julia Adler-Milstein, David Bates, & Chris Longhurst, many other mentors, collaborators, students, friends and family, and more. docit.ucsf.edu/news/jay-hol...

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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

It’s that time of year again: The information session for Harvard’s PhD in Health Policy will be held a month from today, on Tuesday, October 28. Register here (recording will be available for those who can’t make it): harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

now there is an interesting diff-in-diff

🧪 I’m thrilled that @amia.org has compiled its inaugural starter pack! Follow all these pioneering researchers and clinicians shaping the future of medicine through their work in medical AI, clinical innovation, digital health policy, and patient advocacy. #MedSky #WhyInformatics #MedAI 🩺💻

Fuck it fixed effects for everything. Fixed effects never hurt a goddamn soul.

More broadly, there is this trend to just... ignore the linear passage of time and the fact that people update their beliefs. It is totally reasonable to have different opinions now than you did in summer 2020!

Yesterday: the economists were wrong, tariffs are clearly working Today: Ok, we need to fire the economists because the jobs data doesn't look good

It has been a wild day to get an NIH grant.

uhh well maybe lol

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

Excited to get this grant submitted and some papers revised so I can spend this weekend enjoying my true passion: cooking up a weird little instrumental variables paper.

My favorite Colbert moment: This performance aired right before the pandemic and I watched it nearly every night from 2020 to 2022 youtu.be/T_qkVPZ8DJI?...

If he had a good reason I'd probably be okay with my dog eating me now.

Skill issue cause I’m a white dude with no connections (first gen college!) and I went to Michigan and Harvard just fine.

only logged in to eRA commons to see if my grant moved from "pending administrative review" yet 6 times today, not bad.

"If Kennedy really wants to limit industry influence in health policy and the health care system, the most impactful thing he could do is to roll back the funding cuts at the National Institutes of Health." schaeffer.usc.edu/research/wha...

Big mistake I made was not travelling cheaply more when I was in graduate school. I have a lot more money as faculty but honestly no time to travel, or even plan vacations.

its kind of crazy how much discourse this generated when it turned out to be a data error on the part of NYT.

#HAScholar @Health_Affairs celebrates 2nd anniversary! Now in leading indices & w/ a preliminary impact factor, we provide rapid and high quality review & publication. > 250,000 full text downloads in 2024! Two years of publishing: onward and upward. academic.oup.com/healthaffair...

I heard this morning that my informatics colleague Dr. Atul Butte passed after a battle with cancer. He was a giant in the field & inspired many of us over his distinguished career. He was a passionate champion of the power of big data & his impact on our field is immeasurable. RIP Atul & thanks.

underrated part of academic conferences right now is learning new ways to respond to "how are you doing" (variations on a friend's favorite: "with year fixed effects...")

luckily getting NIH funding and maintaining a research lab in a soft money environment is like, super easy and chill, this isn't turning my already high stress levels to 1000 or anything, ha ha.

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.