Great @Health_Affairs study
For Medicaid MCO beneficiaries
-1 in 5 in-network docs were ghosts
-1 in 3 see < 10/year
-25% of a small number of listed in-network docs comprise 75-85% of care
"in-network" is grossly misused
insurance ≠ access to care
https://t.co/rCElPlyCO7
@AlyssaJoyJaffee Both important. Medical training aims to teach evidence based medicine. Care without evidence is often just draining patients’ pockets.
@chrissyfarr@MSchlueterMoore Could it be done anonymously? That might remove important barriers to meaningful storytelling. I went to Failcon. Great idea, but the barriers diminished what could have been.
@chrissyfarr There can be good, learning-related reasons to do this, but you must also be honest with yourself that you aren’t ready to raise until you’ve picked a lane.
@amalec Echoing @erenbali the business model is tricky, afaict everyone has done it wrong so far. Tech-wise EMRs are important to many workflows but don't do referrals well somewhat intentionally.
So how has PR done it?
Best I can tell, they’ve done this largely by not tying vaccines to politics
They pay less attention to mainland politics
All their political parties actively support vaccinations
And generally, political identify & vaccinations are not intermixed
5/6
2/3 We examined patterns by “hot spot” status and found they were NO DIFFERENT from non-hot-spots. Also, no differences by patient race/ethnicity/SES/comorbidities. This suggests that the dropoff in visits was driven more by messaging and fear than strain on local hospitals.
"This is not the update wanted to give you. Your husband died about fifteen minutes ago. I'm so sorry."
The rest of it is harder to say. He wasn't alone. The respiratory therapist and I stayed with him until the end, squeezing his hands, telling him it was okay to go.
My scooter was stolen last week. Unknown to the thief, I hid two Airtags inside it. I was able to use the Apple Find My network and UWB direction finding to recover the scooter today. Here’s how it all went down:
Israel - updated status:
💉
55% 2 doses (90% in age >50)
😷
Masks off in open areas
Schools back to normal
Businesses open
Green passes (in high-risk indoor setting)
🤧
* <20 cases /M/d (50-fold drop)
* <1 severe cases /M/d (15-fold drop)
* 1-6 deaths /d
Vaccines work!
1/2
Get this.
Last night I, along with a coalition of Black physicians, met with the President and Senior Leadership of the AMA.
Here’s what went down:
A thread.
Sloppy user research is NOT better than NO user research.
No user research costs nothing and gets zero results.
Sloppy user research costs money and is biased towards negative outcomes (and you can’t tell).
With zero research, you’re creating UX debt at a much slower rate.
This JAMA thing is emblematic of why we struggle to get funded & published, bc ppl who feel they’re ~not racist~ & are offended by terms like structural racism must reflexively frown and clutch their ~anti-racist~ pearls at the sight of such terms in the title or abstract. *Sigh*