Grace Vinton

Healthcare Pulse + Patient Advocate + Big Data Geek + Serial Connector + New Englandah + Own Opinions 👌

[Grace Vinton @HITeaWithGrace]

“Patient Advocate” has different meanings depending on who you are speaking to. There are board certified patient advocates that are paid to help patients navigate the healthcare system. There are volunteers, like myself, that do this via local community groups. A thread 🧵

[John Lynn @techguy]

As PHI moves across organizations, inconsistency becomes risk.

Kevin Day of The Sequoia Project highlights the need for a unified approach to consent and data disclosure.

Learn about computable consent and privacy from experts at the Sequoia Project: https://t.co/bWySFm1g1K

@sequoiaproject #PatientPrivacy #digitalhealth

[Anastassia Gliadkovskaya @gliadkovskaya]

So proud to be among this group!

I'm up for Best Body of Work and my story on alternative funding programs is a national finalist in the Impact/Investigative category. Thank you @ASBPE!

https://t.co/aYxiCMMhkp

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Addiction to short-form videos is associated with reduction of brain activity in the frontal lobe and weakened focus.

[Stuart Blitz @StuartBlitz]

It’s so dumb that physicians need to get a medical license in every state. They all have different processes and takes forever.

Why doesn’t a startup create a national medical license? Physicians just pay an annual fee and can practice anywhere.

Is anyone building this?

[Christina Farr @chrissyfarr]

Is "textbook performance" enough for medical AI?

The first independent stress test of ChatGPT Health is out in @NatureMedicine.

The Good: Near-perfect triage for textbook stroke and anaphylaxis.

The Bad: A 51.6% under-triage rate for true emergencies.

But there’s a massive elephant in the room: How fair is a safety study without a human control group?

More analysis at link in comments.

[FierceHealthcare @FierceHealth]

✨Fierce Healthcare presents the 2025 Women of Influence
Grace Vinton, a communications professional at Supreme Group and podcast host of "HITea With Grace," amplifies the voices of leaders and patient advocates to inspire change
https://t.co/npZlizYkpu

[Dave Foster @HWinsider]

Agentic orchestration in health explained by @drhew requires data, interoperability and outcomes that we are aiming to improve for patients. #CMSQualCon26

[Medicomp Systems @MedicompSys]

Congratulations to IJN for being the first hospital in Malaysia to achieve @HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7.

Honored that Quippe helped power the structured, real-time clinical intelligence behind this transformation.

Learn more: https://t.co/6EvcWZ2ERT

[Stuart Blitz @StuartBlitz]

Spoke to the VP at a payor today who said they switched their entire operation to run on OpenClaw.

Anytime someone submits a claim, it just auto-rejects it and provides a personalized reason why denied.

You can just do things 🔥🔥

[Stuart Blitz @StuartBlitz]

Employers spend a big % of their budget on healthcare. All these health tech companies should pivot to pitching employers on using their services.

They will sign up immediately and you have kinda unlimited demand with their employees. Can print $.

Why isn't anyone doing this?

[Shereese Maynard, MS; MBA @ShereeseMayMba]

@Amazon is clarifying lab results.
@Optum is automating prior auth with AI.
Regulatory leadership is shifting.

Individually? Updates.
Together? A signal

Healthcare in 2026 is about clarity, automation, & governance

My latest Substack breaks it down 🔗 https://t.co/5j4XdZUZrK

[Grace Vinton @HITeaWithGrace]

Where is my NYC HealthTech community at? Will you be joining? #healthtech #digitalhealth #hcldr

[Grace Vinton @HITeaWithGrace]

What Does ChatGPT Health Mean for Healthcare? - Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare @PSQHnews https://t.co/k6bGLnlwfb

[Brad Loncar @bradloncar]

Prices are so expensive around Union Square that one VC firm is hosting its meetings on a bus. Love this.😂

[Ben Smith @bensmithlive]

A single night of sleep can now predict 130 future diseases with up to 93% accuracy.

Stanford researchers just released SleepFM.

This is a multimodal foundation model trained on 585,000 hours of physiological data from 65,000 participants.

And it's actually insane: (1/5)

[Christina Farr @chrissyfarr]

There's this toxic need in the healthcare industry to convene and self congratulate. Very few people are brave enough to acknowledge the reality on the ground. One exception is @sacjai, the only health insurance exec in America who moved forward with an ad campaign with the slogan:

"Health insurance is broken."

[James Zou @james_y_zou]

Today in @NatureMedicine we report that AI can predict 130 diseases from 1 night of sleep🛌

We trained a foundation model (#SleepFM) on 585K hours of sleep recordings from 65K people—brain, heart, muscle & breathing signals combined.

AI learns the language of sleep🧵

[Healthcare AI Guy @HealthcareAIGuy]

NEW: AI just became legally authorized to practice medicine in the US.

Actually prescribing with no doctor in the loop.

Doctronic launched a pilot where its AI renews prescriptions for chronic conditions, reviews history, asks questions, and sends the Rx to the pharmacy.

[Grace Vinton @HITeaWithGrace]

2026 Outlook: The domino effect of Medicaid cuts and the hidden costs for healthcare https://t.co/PPvMQ6yWOj

[Grace Vinton @HITeaWithGrace]

Health IT companies seek 'clearer, more consistent rules' on AI development @MikeMiliardHITN https://t.co/DRzqMoJlQf