Amanda Berra

EVP and chief education officer for Union Healthcare Insight

[Amanda Berra @AmandaBerra]

Look, it’s that rare beast—a healthcare solution story. A feasible way hospitals can cut down on greenhouse gas emissions https://t.co/q2NFiyKb65

[Amanda Berra @AmandaBerra]

Hello Twitter, it’s been a couple years, did I miss anything? Anyway here’s two new posts—one on Medicare Advantage quality https://t.co/wtYX1JPM5c and one on whether telehealth could finally start disrupting provider share: https://t.co/JzkheXuUZ3

[Amanda Berra @AmandaBerra]

@peterubel Divide up course by subtopic, assign students to finding the bad apples? The more they find the more points the accrue — Good critical thinking experience for them

[Rachel Woods @raemwoods]

I keep hearing leaders try to compare the Covid-19 crisis to the financial crisis. But the truth is, the health care industry's recovery from the pandemic will be different in almost every way. Listen to more in this week's episode of #radioadvisory
https://t.co/xryd7a3Nxk

[Amanda Berra @AmandaBerra]

Here’s an element of vaccine rollout I wouldn’t have thought of. Potential need to build up capacity, assertively offer “exposure therapy” services to help the surprisingly large % of population with a needle phobia get past it https://t.co/QB2TB0ZlUK

[Amanda Berra @AmandaBerra]

Fragmentation and complexity in the health care system can be stressful to read about... so take some deep breaths before you read @KFF ‘s awesomely specific rundown of state-level #vaccine distribution plans https://t.co/71VztP4z0E

[Amanda Berra @AmandaBerra]

Check out this practical, tactical idea for helping staff uncover where/how bias may be affecting patient care—a tactic that INCLUDES PATIENTS IN THE DISCOVERY PROCESS. Neat

[Medical Axioms @medicalaxioms]

I recently had a house staff teaching team and as an experiment we added a “problem” onto the end of each patient’s problem list called:

Bias.

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[Megan Zweig @MeganKZweig]

Digital health funding proves to be recession-proof, w/ COVID generating the greatest demand we've ever seen for tech-enabled healthcare. US #digitalhealth startups raised more funding this H1 than ever before, $5.4B. Dive into the @Rock_Health update https://t.co/V24FsVITN7

[Amanda Berra @AmandaBerra]

Sobering, worthwhile read on the rehab part of many people’s Covid-19 recovery journey https://t.co/7v3GK9EDCG

[Amanda Berra @AmandaBerra]

I like this news

[The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe]

Pandemic spawns new spirit of collaboration for Boston’s longtime rival hospitals https://t.co/qpkoHq7MpF

[Modern Healthcare @modrnhealthcr]

In the midst of the #coronavirus #pandemic, the #telemedicine provider's visit volume is up 92% year-over-year. #COVID19 #healthcare https://t.co/1EIhxnAgLl

[Amanda Berra @AmandaBerra]

To see how PCPs are faring in the COVID era, see @PCPCC weekly survey stats. Like % practices seeing increase in COVID-related health burdens among elderly patients w/o home support (34%); practices furloughing staff (42%); using homemade/used PPE (54%) https://t.co/VKPGOdQApx

[Jay Hancock @jayhancock1]

Result of high-deductible health insurance, surprise doc bills and hospital lawsuits against patients: 14% of U.S. adults (30 million) say they would avoid seeking care even if they had COVID-19 symptoms. https://t.co/LjKyxoBOpz

[Amanda Berra @AmandaBerra]

I asked our telehealth researchers if they could point me to a one-pager on telehealth reimbursement policy and they literally wrote back “LOL”. But they also recommended this helpful document from Center for Connected Health Policy https://t.co/vtkHLYu75f - thank you @CCHPCA

[Jim Dwyer @jimdwyernyt]

Less ventilators. More 'Swan Lake.' After a month at the white-hot center of the pandemic, what doctors wish they'd known in early March. About New York. https://t.co/mB7geo8FkI

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

What it takes: “From Buffalo to NYC, hospitals will be sharing staff, patients and supplies for the foreseeable future, with Albany overseeing the distribution of resources” @voxdotcom https://t.co/MUYZRHolIS

[Amanda Berra @AmandaBerra]

Check out this community-led innovation: Makerspaces, architecture firms, and ordinary citizens organizing themselves to 3-D print PPE. Below is an effort in VT; see also this broader article on the effort, “operation PPE” https://t.co/rogduHb8Dr

[Generator @generatorvt]

Get the latest on our efforts to produce PPE for our #BTV community here: https://t.co/n3XHS7X5Zt #vermontstrong #PPEshortage #covid19

[Andy Slavitt @ASlavitt]

BREAKING: Big news. There is a now national resource & clearinghouse for N95 masks. This is a place to go if you have of if you need. Consider helping to circulate this.

Thank you Project N95! #GetMePPE

https://t.co/bCN3bchb9Z

[Christopher David Kerns @CD_Kerns]

Want an overview of how the U.S. health care delivery system is prepared and what it should do to flex up to withstand a a major Covid-19 outbreak? Oh yes you do. Here’s what I shared with about 2,000 members yesterday—and will be updating regularly. https://t.co/Mh6YFaVIJS

[Amanda Berra @AmandaBerra]

Informative post on why nursing homes and SNFs struggle with infection prevention—and how better-resourced organizations (like hospitals) should help. As my colleague Jared Landis points out, preventing that SNF outbreak now will help everyone later https://t.co/nLNvpxiDn0