Health Action NM

Working for affordable, accessible, accountable health care for all people living in New Mexico. RTs/follows are not endorsements.

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Inside the Trump-backed push to bring AI doctors into American medicine https://t.co/OKAf2qD9Gs

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Commonwealth Fund: 21% of adults experienced a coverage denial in the past year https://t.co/FnwJzGXhAP

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Around 1 in 5 young people use AI chatbots for mental health advice, survey finds https://t.co/sqJ85gte4I via @nbcnews

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Long COVID may affect 1 in 6 infected patients https://t.co/ptShMUZ1ia

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Shionogi's COVID antiviral Xocova passes muster with FDA as post-exposure preventative https://t.co/472WTtmeLL

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Unconscionable that for the nation that spends the most on healthcare, we don't protect our children.

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Could be a game changer if embraced.

[Paul Wischmeyer MD @Paul_Wischmeyer]

This NEW OUTDOOR ICU rooftop garden may change how hospitals think about critical care recovery forever.

Would you want an outdoor ICU space at your hospital?

Gives critically ill patients something many haven’t experienced in months: fresh air, sunlight, and a connection to the outdoors.

“I forgot what it feels like to be outside.”

After 2 months in the ICU, a 29-year-old patient was taken onto the UK’s new rooftop intensive care garden—and became emotional experiencing fresh air and sunlight again.

This may be the future of critical care.

Could nature help reduce delirium, anxiety, stress, and even accelerate recovery?

As ICU clinicians, we spend enormous effort optimizing medications, ventilation, nutrition, mobility, and technology. Perhaps we should also be optimizing access to sunlight, fresh air, and the healing power of nature.

Would you want access to an outdoor healing space if you were recovering in the ICU?

#CriticalCare #ICU #ICURehab #Medicine #Healthcare #ICURecovery #Delirium #Rehabilitation

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We have little public will to make this happen as our country falls behind in supporting healthy outcomes at every level.

[Caitlin Rowley Gallamore @caitgallamore]

Excellent closing paragraph from @LorenAdler in @NEJM

[Reuters @Reuters]

King's College Hospital in London has opened a rooftop garden for critical care patients. Its first patient, a 29-year-old woman dependent on feeding tubes, said the outdoor space gave her 'a real boost to keep on going

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KFF’s Chief Executive to Retire https://t.co/iyB3q7xJE6

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

First step is to require any hospitals that enjoy Non Profit Tax Benefits, to publish monthly all of their actual General Ledger transactions and invoices.

You are non profit. You are being subsidized and often funded by taxpayers. We are your stakeholders, along with patients. There ain't a damn economic thing that you can't show.

And no, Medicare Cost Reports are not comprehensive accounting reports.. They are pretty much useless for this.

Second step is to make all NDAs and Confidentiality Agreements for any financial healthcare agreement, illegal

It's beyond insane that US Senators, and POTUS, can't see what the federal government is paying for medications being provided through TriCare.

With these sources of data, then, and pretty much only then, could proponents of M4A begin to figure out a plan

[American Economic Liberties Project @econliberties]

On Friday, the Governor of Tennessee signed the FAIR Rx Act, prohibiting PBMs from owning pharmacies in the state!

CVS spent millions to kill this bill. Tennessee is sending a clear message that they won't be pushed around by Big Medicine lobbyists.

Other states should follow.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Being anti-Trump is not good enough. Democrats need a progressive agenda.

[Americans For Pharma Reform @BustBigPharma]

A pharmaceutical executive confirmed under Senate questioning that his company is profitable selling Ozempic in Paris for under $100. Americans pay $1,100 for the same injection. The senator's question wasn't about margins or R&D — it was one question with a yes or no answer, and the executive gave it on the record. Everything the pharmaceutical industry says about why American drug prices need to be this high has to coexist with that answer, and coexistence gets harder the more people hear about it.

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UNM officials say the new School of Medicine will be ready by fall 2030, doubling class size to tackle NM's physician shortage. https://t.co/pLu0RPhBBu

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Check out this article: https://t.co/TAPhhIHqoW

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Nearly all 20 state-run health insurance exchanges sent personal data, including race and citizenship info, to tech platforms—often without knowing what they were sharing. https://t.co/kBvKEJLprd via @MorningBrew

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Congressional Democrats try to force a vote to end Medicare AI prior authorization pilot https://t.co/atYG4Wsjw1 via @statnews