Dave S, MCP, MHI
@spacks.bsky.social
Personal account.
Master of Community Planning & Health Informatics
Did all PhD coursework for Regional Dev. Planning once.
Current Informatics and Strategy Manager for an ED based Pop Health/Public Health Services and Research Team at a University.
Master of Community Planning & Health Informatics
Did all PhD coursework for Regional Dev. Planning once.
Current Informatics and Strategy Manager for an ED based Pop Health/Public Health Services and Research Team at a University.
My new favorite micro-automation: Parses our EM docs' clinical schedules from an ICS feed and creates a list of known shift while it emails the team a daily "heads up" on who is on-shift.
Fewer missed meetings, less friction. #ProcessImprovement
Fewer missed meetings, less friction. #ProcessImprovement
July 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
My new favorite micro-automation: Parses our EM docs' clinical schedules from an ICS feed and creates a list of known shift while it emails the team a daily "heads up" on who is on-shift.
Fewer missed meetings, less friction. #ProcessImprovement
Fewer missed meetings, less friction. #ProcessImprovement
No good (or bad) technology is implemented without issue.
Really great story from @katiepalmer.bsky.social this morning about what happens when the rubber meets the road when implementing #AI in a community hospital.
( #healthtech onlookers will be 👀 to see that this is at Summa, the hospital General Catalyst recently bought) 🖥️🩺
( #healthtech onlookers will be 👀 to see that this is at Summa, the hospital General Catalyst recently bought) 🖥️🩺
This Ohio health system tested an AI tool to predict sepsis. Here's how it went
Summa Health's experience with Sepsis Watch shows the difficulties in implementing AI in a community hospital.
www.statnews.com
July 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
No good (or bad) technology is implemented without issue.
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BREAKING: Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has abruptly canceled a meeting of the USPSTF expert panel that to some degree controls which preventative services are covered under insurance with its recommendations.
No reason was given.
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Kennedy abruptly cancels preventative care committee meeting
HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has abruptly canceled a meeting of the USPSTF, an expert panel that evaluates the nation’s preventative care recommendations.
www.statnews.com
July 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
BREAKING: Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has abruptly canceled a meeting of the USPSTF expert panel that to some degree controls which preventative services are covered under insurance with its recommendations.
No reason was given.
More @statnews.com:
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www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/u...
No reason was given.
More @statnews.com:
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Centralize all the healthcare data they said... What about security & privacy we asked... The benefits outweigh the risks they said... www.404media.co/ice-is-searc... #healthcare #privacy #security #bioethics
ICE Is Searching a Massive Insurance and Medical Bill Database to Find Deportation Targets
The database, called ISO ClaimSearch, is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills.
www.404media.co
July 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Centralize all the healthcare data they said... What about security & privacy we asked... The benefits outweigh the risks they said... www.404media.co/ice-is-searc... #healthcare #privacy #security #bioethics
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Weight loss provides far more benefit than just losing fat
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July 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Weight loss provides far more benefit than just losing fat
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Looking at this list, I apparently wrote like an AI before it was an AI thing. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...
454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Looking at this list, I apparently wrote like an AI before it was an AI thing. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...
Remember when precision medicine was (is) all the rage? Hard to do that without research to understand what to be precise about... www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n...
Do you remember the Human Genome Project? I’m not sure the Trump administration wants you to
The NIH archives of the Human Genome Project could fall victim to Trump administration cuts, writes a former archivist.
www.statnews.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Remember when precision medicine was (is) all the rage? Hard to do that without research to understand what to be precise about... www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n...
Thought this was already obvious, but I guess for anyone still wondering if these willy-nilly NIH cuts and AHA reorg are good: www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n...
Ending U.S.-global health research partnerships will cost America
U.S. research on HIV, tuberculosis, Covid-19, mpox, and other fast-moving epidemics is under threat by a hastily announced NIH policy.
www.statnews.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Thought this was already obvious, but I guess for anyone still wondering if these willy-nilly NIH cuts and AHA reorg are good: www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n...
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Yo resisters, Fed family, veterans, and all the fabulous LGBTQ peeps— #WeSeeYou
The crisis fatigue is real. Taking care of your well-being is not avoidance-it’s necessary.
Seek out your posse, do good work, ask for help when you need it. #Resist, rinse, repeat.
Get it trending: #WeSeeYou
The crisis fatigue is real. Taking care of your well-being is not avoidance-it’s necessary.
Seek out your posse, do good work, ask for help when you need it. #Resist, rinse, repeat.
Get it trending: #WeSeeYou
April 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Got to share my work on clinical research workflow analysis and clinical research informatics at our Spring Research Day. Glad to demonstrate why measuring work as imagined and as done is so important in any highly specified environment. #clinicalresearch #healthcare
April 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Got to share my work on clinical research workflow analysis and clinical research informatics at our Spring Research Day. Glad to demonstrate why measuring work as imagined and as done is so important in any highly specified environment. #clinicalresearch #healthcare
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Vaccine expert worries that child #measles deaths are being normalized by the Trump administration. Measles is an extremely contagious disease. It's also extremely preventable. There's a vaccine, and it's highly effective.
www.npr.org/2025/04/14/1...
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Vaccine expert worries child measles deaths are being 'normalized' : Consider This from NPR
Measles is an extremely contagious disease. It's also extremely preventable. There's a vaccine. It's highly effective. For decades it has made measles outbreaks in the U.S. relatively rare, and measle...
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April 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Vaccine expert worries that child #measles deaths are being normalized by the Trump administration. Measles is an extremely contagious disease. It's also extremely preventable. There's a vaccine, and it's highly effective.
www.npr.org/2025/04/14/1...
www.npr.org/2025/04/14/1...
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Congratulations to senior biostatistician Andrew Guide on first-authorship of a new paper in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Co-authors include Shawn Garbett, Paul Harris, and Cindy Chen, plus colleagues at VUMC, Ohio State, and Columbia.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Identifying erroneous height and weight values from adult electronic health records in the All of Us research program
Electronic Health Records (EHR) are a useful data source for research, but their usability is hindered by measurement errors. This study investigated …
www.sciencedirect.com
May 28, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Congratulations to senior biostatistician Andrew Guide on first-authorship of a new paper in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Co-authors include Shawn Garbett, Paul Harris, and Cindy Chen, plus colleagues at VUMC, Ohio State, and Columbia.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A 2021 study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that messages to doctors in patient portals increased by 157 percent between early 2020 and late 2021. And national data through mid-2022 show that the rates have stayed that high or even slightly increased.
Drowning in patient emails, doctors start charging for their replies
Messages to doctors in patient portal increased by 157 percent between early 2020 and late 2021, according to a study.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 5, 2023 at 3:38 PM
A 2021 study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that messages to doctors in patient portals increased by 157 percent between early 2020 and late 2021. And national data through mid-2022 show that the rates have stayed that high or even slightly increased.
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The thing to understand re: OHRP/SACHRP, and so many of the axed programs/people, is that those "outside baseball" have no idea they exist, quietly working in the background to keep the American public safe. When things start to go wrong in research oversight + elsewhere, their absence will be felt.
SACHRP, a federal advisory panel on ethical, legal issues in human health research, is no longer. From me and @pharmalot.bsky.social:
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Federal advisory panel on ethical, legal issues in human health research disbanded
A committee of experts that advises HHS on emerging ethical and legal issues in human health research has been disbanded, according to an email obtained by STAT.
www.statnews.com
April 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The thing to understand re: OHRP/SACHRP, and so many of the axed programs/people, is that those "outside baseball" have no idea they exist, quietly working in the background to keep the American public safe. When things start to go wrong in research oversight + elsewhere, their absence will be felt.
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America is not the sickest country in the world and Americans are not the sickest they’ve ever been. Anybody saying either of those things is LYING CAUSE THEY THINK YOU’RE STUPID. Don’t let them. You can’t fix public health by eliminating it.
April 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
America is not the sickest country in the world and Americans are not the sickest they’ve ever been. Anybody saying either of those things is LYING CAUSE THEY THINK YOU’RE STUPID. Don’t let them. You can’t fix public health by eliminating it.
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If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
March 27, 2025 at 3:24 AM
If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
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The person, infected with #measles, took an Amtrak train from New York to the District of Columbia and visited multiple locations in D.C. while contagious.
www.upi.com/Health_News/...
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Health officials in D.C. on alert after person exposes Amtrak rail passengers to measles - UPI.com
The Washington, DC Department of Health said Tuesday it is investigating a confirmed measles case. The infected person took the Amtrak from New York to DC and visited an urgent care facility while con...
www.upi.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Scientists move toward trying to develop an mRNA vaccine against Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.
Study suggests an mRNA vaccine could make humans resistant to ticks bearing Lyme disease
Scientists move toward trying to develop an mRNA vaccine against Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.
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March 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Scientists move toward trying to develop an mRNA vaccine against Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.
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Yesterday I reported on the closure of the Atomic Spectroscopy Group, which maintains a database of all the spectral lines produced by atoms and ions.
One Q people kept asking me was: "Don't we already know about atomic spectra?"
The answer is quite interesting... 🧵
www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...
One Q people kept asking me was: "Don't we already know about atomic spectra?"
The answer is quite interesting... 🧵
www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...
Trump cuts threaten a measurement lab critical for advanced chips and medical devices
The Atomic Spectroscopy Group provides standardized measurements used across wide swaths of science and industry. The Trump administration plans to cut it.
www.npr.org
March 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Yesterday I reported on the closure of the Atomic Spectroscopy Group, which maintains a database of all the spectral lines produced by atoms and ions.
One Q people kept asking me was: "Don't we already know about atomic spectra?"
The answer is quite interesting... 🧵
www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...
One Q people kept asking me was: "Don't we already know about atomic spectra?"
The answer is quite interesting... 🧵
www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...
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This is Yale Professor Timothy Snyder, who studies authoritarians and tyranny, with a warning.
He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.
He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.
March 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
This is Yale Professor Timothy Snyder, who studies authoritarians and tyranny, with a warning.
He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.
He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.
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A cartoon by Dave Coverly
March 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
A cartoon by Dave Coverly
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They're not even trying to hide it anymore. They're coming for Social Security.
BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.
March 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
They're not even trying to hide it anymore. They're coming for Social Security.
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Hello Bluesky! This is my first post, and I'm starting with a story I published today, about FEMA halting almost all its grant funding. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/musk-fema-immigrations-doge-freeze-aid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7E4.IepP.vPJ_HHn4Amqb&smid=bs-share
Musk Targeted FEMA. Disaster-Stricken Communities Are Paying a Price. (Gift Article)
A FEMA funding freeze illustrates the extraordinary power of Elon Musk and DOGE, who have made claims of undue benefits for undocumented immigrants and spurred swift action by federal officials.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Hello Bluesky! This is my first post, and I'm starting with a story I published today, about FEMA halting almost all its grant funding. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/musk-fema-immigrations-doge-freeze-aid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7E4.IepP.vPJ_HHn4Amqb&smid=bs-share
I'd like one ticket to 'off this train.'
In what world is abruptly ending contracts that fund SUD treatment a great idea?
In what world is abruptly ending contracts that fund SUD treatment a great idea?
March 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I'd like one ticket to 'off this train.'
In what world is abruptly ending contracts that fund SUD treatment a great idea?
In what world is abruptly ending contracts that fund SUD treatment a great idea?
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In Lubbock, TX, public health officials received orders to stop work supported by 3 grants that helped fund the response to the widening #measles outbreak.
#MedSky #IDSky #HIV #prevention #publichealth #addiction #mentalhealth #SAMHSA #CDC
#MedSky #IDSky #HIV #prevention #publichealth #addiction #mentalhealth #SAMHSA #CDC
Trump Administration Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services
States have been told that they can no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services.
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
In Lubbock, TX, public health officials received orders to stop work supported by 3 grants that helped fund the response to the widening #measles outbreak.
#MedSky #IDSky #HIV #prevention #publichealth #addiction #mentalhealth #SAMHSA #CDC
#MedSky #IDSky #HIV #prevention #publichealth #addiction #mentalhealth #SAMHSA #CDC