Vasant Kumar

Founder, CareCentra - designing behaviors in health care and life sciences. Interests - Computational behavior shaping, Innovation, data science.

[Vasant Kumar @vasantk]

@Ignis_Rex China's manufacturing boom began over a decade earlier. India's democratic path, while messy, imposes different constraints and speeds. The emergence of a middle class is a multi-generational process, not a binary outcome.

[Vasant Kumar @vasantk]

@Ignis_Rex The article presents India's challenges as a timeless cultural flaw, ignoring the historical context of colonial extraction, a deliberate post-independence focus on heavy industry over light manufacturing, and the seismic shift from a closed to an open economy only in 1991.

[Vasant Kumar @vasantk]

@EMostaque This full stack would include perhaps 20% clinical data at best. It will include lifestyle data, social determinants, device data, and other phenotypic data that will be just as important as EHR. This will force democratization of with individual patients owning their data.

[Emad @EMostaque]

The full stack for medicine in an ai age should be completely open as a public good

All our knowledge on cancer, therapeutics, radiology, transcription etc built deliberately and freely usable by anyone permissionlessly

Everyone should have a health concierge aligned with them

[carecentra @carecentra]

CareCentra helps the VA launch NextLevel AI Health Coach https://t.co/P4rN3XCDSz

[carecentra @carecentra]

Reduce COPD & asthma hospitalizations with AI-powered remote monitoring. CareCentra's advanced platform helps manage risks and cut costs. Learn how today! #DigitalHealth #AIHealthcare #CareManagement #RemotePatientMonitoring #PatientOutcomes https://t.co/ojJT87uVTw

[Vasant Kumar @vasantk]

@amitabhk87 Congratulations, Amitabh! What a fabulous run you had at G20!

[carecentra @carecentra]

Honored and grateful to be invited by @AmandaPurnell to the @NationalPressClub for #DataX 2022 as part of the 2022 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs #VHA Innovation Experience, #VHAIE!

[Vasant Kumar @vasantk]

@karaswisher @nitashatiku That is what Socrates lamented about the invention of paper! This is a future that has already happened- let’s get on with it!

[Misha @mishadavinci]

5 billion people use the internet.

Less than 1% understand it.

This mega thread will get you up to speed—starting today:

[Zach Miller @z_miller4]

@paulgb @rhh @DKThomp Great find. "EZPass reduced the incidence of prematurity & low birth weight in the vicinity of toll plazas by 6.7-9.1% & 8.5-11.3% respectively. Large but not implausible effects given the correlations between proximity to traffic and birth outcomes found
in previous studies."

[Vasant Kumar @vasantk]

@jkvedar It would be to sense the next-best action the patient can take to manage the risk for their chronic condition. As a behavior shaping feature it could nudge the patient to take that micro action, repeatedly, until it turns into a habit.

[Vasant Kumar @vasantk]

@alvinfoo John Lennon

[mark belan | science illustrator + info designer @markabelan]

Visualizing the Biomass of Life 🦊🦀🐬🦎🦃🐓🦩🦆🌳☘️🍄🌼🌍 #biomass #infographic #dataviz #datavisualization #EarthDay22 #earthday #sciart #life #illustration #art #science #data

[Vasant Kumar @vasantk]

https://t.co/N326LVmTXo

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Everything we call civilization was invented in the last 500 generations—way too short a time for our bodies and brains to re-optimize. We're a bunch of primates in a totally unnatural environment, trying our best. Good thing to keep in mind!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The most difficult Chinese character in the world means 'biáng', a Chinese noodle dish. It's made up of 58 strokes in its traditional form and it was encoded in Unicode in 2020 only [read more: https://t.co/YrUyTv60vr] [source, HD: https://t.co/3wOQfav606] https://t.co/Al06oDjX3o

[Morgan Housel @morganhousel]

@waitbutwhy NASA's New Horizons spacecraft passed Pluto in 2015 within one minute of what it predicted when it launched in 2006.

Three billion miles, 99.99998% accurate.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

About 80% of the burden of disease in America is caused by lifestyle factors. Digital health care can deal with many of these problems https://t.co/a05Kb7YCLu

[John A. List @Econ_4_Everyone]

I was just on an interview and the person asked me how I would illustrate the difference between causality and correlation. She wanted something ocular so I showed her this picture that my friend @rshereme sent me years ago.