Patrick Tarnowski

Healthcare advisor to early stage founders. Payor, provider, patient expertise. Helping you understand how health plans think. Engagement, effectiveness, value

[Patrick Tarnowski @pjtx2]

@drmarkhyman @function 2025

[Patrick Tarnowski @pjtx2]

@hjluks @DigitalOnestep

[Justin Elliott @JustinAdvocacy]

.@APTAtweets on Capitol Hill – Thank you @RepHarshbarger for your sponsorship of H.R. 3875, APTA-supported PT #telehealth legislation. Appreciate your questions and comments during today’s @HouseCommerce Cmte hearing on this important legislation. #PTAdvocacy

[FOX Rehabilitation @FOXRehab]

Walk this way! 🚶 At FOX, our clinicians utilize @DigitalOnestep technology to monitor a patient's #gait at all times, allowing for proactive intervention. Learn more about the importance of #gaitanalysis in this @CNN article!
https://t.co/dWjpvVjE96

[Andy Mychkovsky @healthcareandy]

Long-term healthcare facilities represent $27 billion of Florida’s economy and 286,000 jobs.

And b/c America doesn’t have a culture of multi-generational living, it will always be needed.

Yet it’s a hard business to run b/c Medicaid (lower reimbursement) pays 60% of spending. And Medicaid funding is always under attack due to tightening state budgets.

This is a huge societal conundrum we must address sooner rather than later.

[Patrick Tarnowski @pjtx2]

@mikeeisenberg Many prayers continue for you and your family @mikeeisenberg

[American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) @APTA_official]

Cuts to Medicare are not sustainable for providers or patients. 🚫 APTA will not relent, but we need your help. ✍️ Make your voice heard by contacting your lawmakers today: https://t.co/7LbwpnUcO6 

#FightTheCut #PTAdvocacy

[kyle @KyleKimbrell1]

Really nice video on NMES set up and parameters

[Ben Lang @benln]

Buy Israeli-made technology as you plan 2024 budgets. Here's a shortlist to help you get started. Share with founders, operators, and investors.

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[Michael Eisenberg @mikeeisenberg]

Day #6 - Fourth Set of Thoughts on Unfolding Events in Israel — The South, The Funeral and The European Media. CALL TO ACTION.

Our minds and prayers are with the victims of Hamas brutality and their families as well as with our soldiers, our kids, on the front lines.

I want to extend sincere condolences to my friend Eyal Waldman, founder and CEO of Mellanox (acquired by Nvidia), and leader of Israel's tech community who worked tirelessly to employ Palestinians in tech, whose daughter was murdered by the Hamas/ISIS barbarians

Yesterday was an exhausting day. It started with a meeting on a major fundraising campaign (more on that to come soon). I went to Tel Aviv to get some work done and support our portfolio companies but it was short lived. I got a call from the organizer of the largest civilian aid operation in the south who said “drop everything and come.” He never asked me that before so I did. I picked up a few people on the way and we went south.

Hundreds of young people packing packages, loading buses to go out and rescue more civilians to safety. They were manning phones, WhatsApp groups and computers to take care of every possible need of the communities in the south of Israel. It was pandemonium because it typical Israeli fashion it was: do first and organize later. There were exhausted bodies, sleeping bags, local women turning up to serve hot food and a spirit of camaraderie and determination that was inspiring.

There, I also saw for the first time since he jumped into non-stop military action on Saturday morning, the CEO of the Shomer Hachadash, the largest volunteer Organization in Israel, which I chair. We shared a long and very smelly hug but it was the best hug I have gotten in a while. In the room for the briefing was an air of seriousness. We need a larger civilian effort to help the people of the south. Much larger. Without going into details, this is going to become a major focus over the coming days and weeks alongside the fight against the evil barbarians of Hamas. I also took away that we need more focus on media (more on that and what you can do is below).

We drove back and I got back into Jerusalem in time to do the interview with Fox News, wolf down some food and head to my cousin’s funeral. There I got some more smelly hugs from optimistic soldiers I know in elite combat units who said “we took a gut punch but we are going to get these guys and triumph.” Joey, your cousin, they added, was a hero. He saved lots of people.

The funeral was packed despite central command saying too many people should not come. When my cousins left their home to come to the funeral, thousands of people who could not come to the funeral lined the streets singing Hatikva (Israel’s national anthem) and other songs as they drove out. (Videos in next tweet). I have been reasonably emotionally stable since this all started Shabbat morning. Two things have shaken me to my core. The first was the images I saw of the holocaust level atrocities committed by Hamas, the beheadings, the blood in babies cribs and other gut wrenching atrocities. The second was the eulogy of my cousin Joey’s wife Senai. I broke down crying from her beautiful words.

We are a large tribe thank God and I wanted to hug a lot of cousins but we needed to run out so I could take my son back to reserve duty. I drove him back and we spent some of the car ride mistakenly talking about things to plan for Wednesday. 20 minutes after I dropped him off, he called me to say, “Daddy, it is Wednesday today.” We had a chuckle. Time is a blur.

Candidly, I was exhausted. It was well after midnight and I wanted to pray evening service and go to sleep but my phone rang and it was a very senior European political figure who I am friendly with. He said “Michael, I sense the support for Israel in Europe is starting turn. It was very strong the first five days but your enemies are working hard. They are suggesting that there weren’t atrocities or beheadings or other diabolical acts of evil, that this was somehow related to a long conflict and not barbarianism. They are questioning the shutdown of water and other supplies. Lots of people in Europe support you he said but you need to take care of this and get this information to to the right people.”

I did what I needed to do on our front but NOW I AM TURNING TO YOU. All of you who read my posts and all of your friends can help. First, please tag all European press, media outlets reporters, politicians and send them the images of the atrocities. Send them the bloody pictures. Send them by WhatsApp, SMS, email, tag them on social media. Feel free to share their phone numbers too if you have them. You can create a long tag list below so everyone here can bombard them. They need to see this. Their memory is short on the slaughter of Jews. Take action right here.

Second, you are probably aware that Hamas is holding American and European hostages as well as Israelis from the dance party. The siege on Gaza is necessary to get them back and get rid of Hamas. Until Hamas is gone, even innocent children will grow up to be terrorists because that is how Hamas indoctrinates them. It is that simple. We must weaken the barbarians and get our innocent citizens, partygoers back. This is a war. It is a war to eradicate evil. It is a war to get the kidnapped back. We must destroy Hamas/ISIS to save future Palestinian children from their evil clutches and indoctrination. This should not need to be explained but people have short memories. The 24/7 media cycle has made people numb. Europe should tell Israel: “Do whatever it takes to get these people back. Do whatever it takes to destroy Hamas/ISIS.” That is exactly what President Biden did to support his murdered and kidnapped citizens and also support Palestinians children. Tag the European media and the politicians and tell them to tell Hamas “Surrender and Return the kidnapped civilians and the siege will end.” This is a call to action to all of you to spread this message.

[Patrick Tarnowski @pjtx2]

@mikeeisenberg Thank you Michael. 🙏❤️

[The STAB:LE Program @stable_program]

Physios… teach your clients to get off the floor. Even if they’re 90. No, ESPECIALLY if they’re 90.

This is Bill. Bill is 97. Be like Bill.

[American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) @APTA_official]

The bill would allow PTs to participate in the NHSC Loan Repayment Program, which repays up to $50,000 in outstanding student loans to certain health care professionals who agree to work for at least two years in a designated Health Professional Shortage Area. #PTAdvocacy

[UoD Medicine @UoDMedicine]

📣 Fully funded PhD for health professionals (perfect for a physio) interested in working on a project on prehabilitation for people awaiting joint replacement surgery. Application deadline is 28 Aug 2023 - find out more: https://t.co/IjAVBTvhCn or email [email protected]

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

[Patrick Tarnowski @pjtx2]

Fantastic opportunity to join an incredible company!! OneStep https://t.co/MoeCOZYI3o

[Patrick Tarnowski @pjtx2]

So pleased to be partnering with the #orthotist and #prosthetist professionals to bring a simplified, smartphone enabled objective gait and outcomes data process to their practices. OneStep https://t.co/ujTit3QFUq

[Patrick Tarnowski @pjtx2]

Please join us to learn how OneStep’s smartphone based gait science technology is capturing objective gait data to help providers with their clinical decision making and remote care. #sixthvitalsign #fallprevention #mobility https://t.co/xh1KNSuL86

[Patrick Tarnowski @pjtx2]

This 👇 is the power of OneStep in action! So grateful for our partnership with Kinomatic. https://t.co/SenytQHtlP

[Patrick Tarnowski @pjtx2]

Great work American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) #physicaltherapy #value https://t.co/BikDUZys8w