@JHospMedicine Could this problem be assisted by AI/machine learning? Inputs: AM census, recent trends, day of week, season, etc. Output: PM census. If Cheesecake Factory can do it, so can medicine. https://t.co/fliLeCg4nF #JHMChat
@JHospMedicine When census is high, we as providers do everything we can to avoid compromising quality of care. This sometimes means deferring less urgent tasks like discharge planning. High census might also negatively impact work-life balance. #JHMChat
Tragically, we've all become numb to Covid's death toll. Sometimes it takes a tangible comparison to shake us out of complacency.
I had such a moment today, when Covid deaths in the U.S. hit 875,000. That, as it happens, is the population of my city, San Francisco. Staggering.
The UCSF #Covid_19 Self-Triage continues to improve. >14k uses, >1k self-scheduled appts, and now pts can self-sched both video and in-person visits. If a surge hits SF, this is sure to help #UCSF patients. @UCSFCDHI@UCSFDHM@ucsfhealth https://t.co/5kuq5mW3Ml
Writing this story made me feel even more grateful to our providers and to anyone working to make us safer. Thank you for what you do - and continue to do.
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Daily screening of healthcare workers will be key to preventing COVID-19 outbreaks. Our @UCSF strategy just published in @AMIAinformatics: https://t.co/jyblCxiNkd @AaronNeinstein @anobelodisho @UCSFCDHI @conversahealth
Excited to share data from our #COVID19 UCSF Symptom Checker published today in @AMIAinformatics. Amazing effort by @ucsfhealth Clinical Innovation Center & DPE team, as we built and launched this in 2 wks and show how a self-triage tool can help w surge. https://t.co/IKnuPGbhBO
In @JAMA_current, T Judson, @michelle_mourad & I describe new model–a Targeted Automatic eConsult (TACo)–w/ EHR-based triage of hi risk pts, remote review by specialist & brief consult https://t.co/UGsDisAVwZ Pioneered @ucsf for diabetes, we're excited to scale to other use-cases
Supplemental payment programs can increase access to new technologies, but some payments are made without clear evidence of safety and effectiveness, say @RFRedberg and colleagues in @bmj_latest. https://t.co/MyvvP8B5gt
The elimination of Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality's National Guidelines Clearinghouse health care is another astonishing and unconscionable blow for access to scientific information. https://t.co/VLjIWhzRJe
$850,000 per treatment? Need to move to Value-Based Drug Pricing https://t.co/riIWOLAvT6 . @PeterBachMD@JAMA_current. Thanks to @WrayCharles for sending.