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Randa Perkins, MD, MBA, FAMIA
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CMIO @ Moffitt Cancer Center; BC in Family Med and Clinical Informatics, FAMIA. Proud KY transplant. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 #GoNoles
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Breaking with the CDC, ACOG reaffirms support for #COVID19 vaccination in pregnant people.

Here’s what to know.

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ACOG Continues Recommending COVID-19 Vaccine During Pregnancy
This JAMA Medical News article discusses updated guidance on COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant people from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
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September 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera. Acquired on Aug. 31, 2025 (Sol 1611) at the local mean solar time of 11:22:22.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Thomas Thomopoulos
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September 3, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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@julia-adler-mils.bsky.social covering a framework for developing measures for AI monitoring a little earlier than planned (we had a couple of speakers who weren't able to attend).

"Regulatory infrastructure may eventually catch up, but we can't wait"

1/6🧵
#CIC25 🩺💻 #MLSky
May 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Classic talk on informatics ROI #CIC25 - organizations like to say they’re data-driven but gravity will pull them toward data-naive or data-dismissiveness. Informaticists must capture their impact on outcomes, financial benefit, efficiencies and (harder to measure) cultural impact - Dr. Joel Gordon
May 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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At #CIC25 Drs Priyanka Solanki and Jonah Feldman present the @nyulangone.bsky.social approach to involving clinicians in editing Gen AI discharge summaries, beyond error-checking it ensures the human aspects of care shine through
May 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Some of the awesome AMIA #CIC25 crew. Fueled by coffee, some large chunks of cauliflower, and about a dozen churros. :) @vlily.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Best thing about an AMIA conference? (Aside from catching up with my brilliant colleagues??) “Oh look, they’re having the same issues we are! We aren’t alone!” Toughest part? “Omg, they’re having the same issues we are. I was really hoping someone had solved this already…“ #CIC25
May 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Alerts on the record telling docs they’re responsible for the documentation they’re signing feels redundant at best. Those who bother to read that statement are the ones already editing their notes. Also, AI warnings/labels are the new Prop 65; discuss. #CIC25 (p.s. Read b4 you sign!!)
May 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Bumping this post for #CIC25. This was a general guide that I made for the Annual Symposium, but a lot of this will be relevant to people at the Clinical Informatics Conference, where I will be recruiting from to help boost our numbers here!
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#AMIA2024 WELCOME TO BLUESKY! 🦋

I'm so excited to see people finally arrive at the shores of Bluesky!

I want to make sure you stick around so let me give you a guided tour on how to maximize your fun and engagement here! 🧵
May 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Level 3 studies - Healthbench, which was released last week as a white paper.

Link to the paper here: openai.com/index/health...
#MLSky 🩺💻 #CIC25
May 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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@julia-adler-mils.bsky.social: For a medical workforce and the merging of AI into workflows, we can't just "train" our way out of this challenge.

She also introduces the CODEX project she is affiliated with.

#CIC25 🩺💻
May 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Some projects, current in the works, and some on the horizon from CODEX on how to empower clinicians with AI and avoid things like deskilling 
#CIC25 🩺💻 #MLSky
May 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Tis the season where I avoid all social media out of pure FOMO. Thanks so much to @colinformatics.bsky.social for making sure I stay green with envy! IYKYK. 🤦‍♀️
April 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Awesome brief summary of what got us to this point in EMRs, let alone a discussion on Epic. Credit to @vlily.bsky.social for the find! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Epic Systems (MyChart)
Podcast Episode · Acquired · 04/21/2025 · 3h 57m
podcasts.apple.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Scoop: Former Biden health IT head Micky Tripathi is going to Mayo Clinic to oversee AI

from @caseyross.bsky.social @statnews.com

🖥️🩺

www.statnews.com/2025/04/10/m...
Mayo Clinic taps former Biden administration official to oversee its use of AI
Exclusive: Micky Tripathi, former top HHS official, to join Mayo Clinic as a senior executive overseeing implementation of AI.
www.statnews.com
April 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Purely for academic reasons, I need a list of fonts that do not differentiate between the capital letter “i” and the number one. And a list of some that gradually progress to greater differences. Again, purely for academic reasons.
April 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u... I’m a tad jealous of the skills, but also just want this crew on speed-dial.
Twelve Dudes and a Hype Tunnel: Scenes from the ‘Super Bowl for Excel Nerds’
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
fedscoop.com/nasa-looking... Boldly going… well, where at least one EMR has gone before.
NASA looking for new electronic health record system to support astronauts
The space agency wants to replace its old EHR with a new commercial-off-the-shelf system.
fedscoop.com
January 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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1 surprising thing I learned when I was writing my manifesto for the Comics Devices Library is that reading comics - or rather, reading images in sequence to construct and apprehend meaning - is itself a difficult and unique literacy + comprehension skill that does not come naturally to most people.
I truly think that comics is more than an art form, it’s a language. For many of us it comes as second nature. But I’ve met so many people who can’t write it, read it, or comprehend it. Treating it as a language solves lots of our issues. Graphic Novels are just books written in that language.
i'm kind of weirded out by the idea that "graphic novel" has any connotation with "high-brow" or "better than comics" because to me it just means a novel-length physical publication with a contained story. it's still comics, but it differentiates it from "the entire run of Spider-Man" or "20-pagers"
December 10, 2024 at 5:31 AM
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Some #BREAKING news

HTI-2 Final Rule is published. Big move from Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy.

Worth noting that they have spun out the Protecting Care Access information blocking exception into a separate rule, currently in review at OMB.

www.healthit.gov/topic/laws-r...
Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (HTI-2) Final Rule | HealthIT.gov
ASTP’s HTI-2 final rule finalizes certain Trusted Exchange Framework and Common AgreementTM (TEFCATM)-related proposals from the HTI-2 proposed rule to advance interoperability and support the access,...
www.healthit.gov
December 11, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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So, #HTI2 just dropped. You can find my feedback on what's in the rule here: motorcycleguy.blogspot.com/2024/12/hti2...
HTI2 just dropped ... light reading for the holidays
Newest from ASTP (formerly ONC) is a light little Christmas present
motorcycleguy.blogspot.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:34 PM
www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-i... I can happily attest to this. We have a great IT leadership team that advocates for our colleagues and the work we do.
Top places to work in IT: 17 health systems rank in 2025
www.beckershospitalreview.com
December 10, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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🧪 Mayo Clinic integrated genetic test insights into EHRs for 100,000+ patients, identifying 2,000 with risk variants. A new genetic data repository aims to drive research and innovation. 🧬🖥️
Mayo Clinic adds genetic test action items to EHR for 100,000 patients
www.beckershospitalreview.com
December 6, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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Wow, turns out the facial recognition company that claims to be the most unbiased is actually biased. Who could have seen that coming?

(I have a bill that would help end these biases by the way)
FTC slaps down a San Jose-based facial recognition startup for claiming its product was trained on millions of faces & free from race and gender bias, when the actual facts supported neither claim. ht @dell.bsky.social www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
FTC Takes Action Against IntelliVision Technologies for Deceptive Claims About its Facial Recognition Software
The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against IntelliVision Technologies Corp.
www.ftc.gov
December 5, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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What is the best time of the month to treat breast cancer? #Nature

"Breast Cancer: Menstrual cycle may affect chemotherapy sensitivity"

Open Access
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 5, 2024 at 11:06 AM