Proud of @societygim.bsky.social for taking action to preserve the vital grant-making functions of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which more than pays for itself by funding research to improve patient safety and quality of care #MedSky #HealthPolicy www.citizen.org/news/health-...

5. Real progress means being strategic about where we look (domains with usable signals, outcomes, and interventions) and disciplined in how we learn: agile cycles of probing, discarding, and scaling (~more agile, less waterfall...) @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social

HHS silently installs new AHRQ Director after it eliminates the AHRQ Office of the Director in the April 1 HHS RIF rogerdklein.com #AHRQ @jeremymberg.bsky.social @alt-hhs.altgov.info @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social

HHS AHRQ - supported research to make healthcare safer! Now can’t fund grants, publish new NOFOs or award contracts but according to HHS these duties are unnecessary!! @alt-hhs.altgov.info @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @muellershewrote.com

Why cutting funds for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality #AHRQ and other scientific research is penny wise pound foolish. Thanks @ericboodman.bsky.social for including me. #MedSky #HealthPolicy www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/t...

Attention - new opportunity to obtain funding for ancillary studies for #RECOVER #LongCOVID cohorts recovercovid.org/funding/roa-... #MedSky

the return on investment for this type of research is huge.

AHRQ cannot publish new funding opportunities - it’s beyond the awards process….

So much of the research that I use to help treat patients in my family medicine office comes from #AHRQ. On a day with a lot of depressing news, this it at the top

This is wildly reckless; AHRQ is little known to the general public and even those working in healthcare- but their behind the scenes impact is massive. See the 🧵

Full details on the meeting: insidehealthpolicy.com/share/149694

AHRQ funds a good chunk of the practical medical research in the US.

If we really wanted to reduce healthcare costs, we’d increase AHRQ funding. This is tragic and short-sighted. Another disappeared federal agency that no one knows about but has helped save numerous lives (Q=Quality) and lots of money

AHRQ is the Agency for HealthCare and Research Quality. It more than pays for itself by providing practical insights about a sector that represents a huge portion of GDP. But Trump has decided that research is inefficient.

This is such good work by Hopkins’ Joe Levy and team #HBHI @bsph-hpm.bsky.social

Man this one really hurts AHRQ is vital to evidence based practice and making healthcare better

Just reckless, anti-science and will cause real harm in the long run on people.

Important thread 🧵 on a terrible decision. Thank you @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social

AHRQ does amazing work in healthcare that saves lives and saves money. 👑 Defunding it is just dumb. It’s something you’d only do if you were trying to destroy our healthcare system, not fix it. 💣 It’s almost like the current administration is actively trying to destroy the country…🤔

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

Online early in Obesity, in a study of >15K patients nationally, we find that almost half of people prescribed #semaglutide (Wegovy) stop taking it by 5 months - esp if they have a high copay or lower income - even though all had commercial insurance. #MedSky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Now completely sold out in-person - but you can still register to attend all but the workshops online! www.eventbrite.com/e/catalyzing... Our stand-out lineup features Tom Maddox, Genevieve Melton-Meaux, Raina Merchant & Mitesh Patel, then panels, posters & workshops. #MedSky #HealthPolicy

Now completely sold out in-person - but you can still register to attend all but the workshops online! www.eventbrite.com/e/catalyzing... Our stand-out lineup features Tom Maddox, Genevieve Melton-Meaux, Raina Merchant & Mitesh Patel, then panels, posters & workshops. #MedSky #HealthPolicy

AHRQ and ASPE being merged. HRSA being merged with SAMHSA and NIOSH. #medSky #HealthPolicy https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/hhs-restructuring-doge.html

A thoughtful read on Learning Health Systems by @tomfoley.bsky.social and @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social. Developing a learning health system is far more than a project in want of a technical fix; these are sociotechnical systems. bit.ly/3Deo1A9

Delighted to have worked on this Learning Health System report with @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social and @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk Great to see it published today. Hope you find it helpful!

Was wonderful to work with @tomfoley.bsky.social to write this chapter on Learning Health Systems. Now free, online - hope you all enjoy the read! #MedSky

Glad that NYS now recommending subtyping of all hospitalized flu A specimens given current high level of flu A cases (H5N1 "bird flu" is one type of influenza A) and obvious national animal spread by now. But also baffled that it took so long. #MedSky #H5N1 #BirdFlu

Delighted our paper on post #COVID #MECFS from #NIHRECOVER is out last week in @journalgim.bsky.social. We find people are almost 5x more likely to develop ME/CFS ("chronic fatigue syndrome") after first COVID infection than uninfected controls. #MedSky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Out yesterday in BMJ Quality & Safety, we show that texting parents in the evening and 2 days later at noon that we have "reserved" a vaccine for their child, along with a direct scheduling link, increases vaccination rates. @berni-hk.bsky.social qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl...

Great 🧵by @leorahorwitzmd on the new JAMA ppr on 2024 update to #NIHRECOVER #LongCOVID index. Also listen to her incisive presentation on the podcast (see🔗👇). Great to work w/this group as we strive to refine understanding of this disabling disorder's clinical manifestations

Now out in @jama.com, the 2024 update to the #NIHRECOVER 2023 #LongCOVID index. Explainer follows. 🧵#MedSky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/n

Wonderful debate at #DIScience24! Dr. Irie did an amazing job stressing the opportunities to build lasting, relationships/infrastructure when we play the long game. Loved Dr. @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social ‘s notes on hustling when we have solid evidence, low-risk opportunities, etc. #TeamItDepends

Today! 4p! #DIScience24 #MedSky #HealthPolicy

For anyone who joined recently:

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Since H5N1 flu is finally getting news coverage, here’s a looong 🧵 on what I learned while working on it for a few months at Ginkgo Biosecurity (I don’t work there anymore and this thread is on no one’s behalf) Everything here is info you can get elsewhere but just to lay it all out insomnia style

If you're not absolutely delighted by the antifungal name Ibrexafungerp then nothing will please you

“Good science takes time, says @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social, the co-PI for the #RECOVER-Adult Observational Cohort at NYU. And, #longCOVID is an ‘exceedingly complicated’ illness that appears to affect nearly every organ system.” #MedSky #IDSky #COVID19 #Advocacy www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Reposting this from my X account where it was a reply to a Bill Ackman post questioning value and safety. Why we give hepatitis B vaccine to babies, and how we know they are safe and effective. 🧵#MedSky

B.C. teen with #birdflu remains in critical condition per officials. Genetic analysis from the teenager has revealed mutations that may make it easier for the virus to infect humans.  Meanwhile, the virus has killed >280 million poultry birds since 2021, infected >400 dairy herds

🧵Growing outbreaks of vaccine preventable, severe disease in kids: A grim thread “As of Nov 9, which marks the latest data available from the CDC, there were more than 23,500 cases of whooping cough reported so far this year. That’s far and above the roughly 5,000 cases confirmed in all of 2023”

Fun fact: If you type “/honk” underneath a post, a honking goose appears. Use your power wisely.

Aww look at the patient right there in the center of my PubMed word cloud. Thanks @morinryan.bsky.social for making this super fun tool scholargoggler.com #MedSky

Found one of us here! If you are going to AcademyHealth D&I #DIScience24 come check out our plenary debate on day 2. I will be staking out the move fast and (ideally don’t) break things position. #HealthPolicy #MedSky moderated by @rsbeidas.bsky.social

Will be extremely interesting to see how this plays out. #MedSky #HealthPolicy “RFK Jr. weighs major changes to how Medicare pays physicians” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

Will be extremely interesting to see how this plays out. #MedSky “RFK Jr. weighs major changes to how Medicare pays physicians”https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/11/21/rfk-physician-payments/

Agree. Response so far is shockingly poor. #MedSky www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/o...