This study developed a final set of 16 proposed benchmarking
indicators and a definition for Virtual Emergency Departments, following a three-round Delphi study across four new Australian services #emergencymedicine #HSR #digitalhealth

Just read about the @aushealthvalue.bsky.social #VBHCC2025 opener by A/Prof Abdullah - "Heart" is fine, but incentives shape behaviour. Clinicians & policymakers aren't knaves (mostly), yet none of us are bias-free knights. We need more #HealthEconomics rigour in the #ValueBasedCare #VBHC chatter.

(1/4) I've found ChatGPT o3 can analyse transcripts of conversations to produce Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) of causal reasoning. Here's one of the contentious claims from today's @7ampodcast.com.au about #smokingcessation #vaping #taxes #blackmarkets & #violence

7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/fir...

".. advertising works by appealing to our emotions, not our brains. Don’t explain the details, just make me feel nice – or angry."

"A leader who’s not game to do anything unpopular .. is a leader who’ll never make much progress solving our deeper problems.."

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

I love this candid options appraisal process by Mooney & Henderson (1986). There are many fake hurdles to conducting evaluations. Challenging folks to "think again" is a must, as is discussing uncertainty & describing what they think can't be measured/valued. Ultimately - make a choice. Choose it.

Apart from when used for pet projects, I suspect there's an implicit Commonwealth policy that #HealthServicesResearch is a responsibility of those who organise & deliver services i.e., the states. But not all states have the same spending power & evidence is needed across jurisdictional boundaries.

Prof. Jack Dowie shows how it was optimal for Humpty Dumpty to sit on the wall.
www.easybest.org.uk/presentations/, taken from his Nov 2018 seminar "Deciding how to decide".
#decisionanalysis #healtheconomics

"The happy compromise" on healthcare in Australia.

An oldie but a goodie from Ron Tandberg that's still relevant to #auspol, today.

I've long found @mirandawolpert.bsky.social's FUPS concept to be a helpful way to explain the limitations of health services data ... bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Important reporting in @thesaturdaypaper.com.au on hospital and NDIS funding, and some of the dynamics that sit behind trying to improve the system. 💯🎯 @squigglyrick.bsky.social nails it. 👉👉 www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

'Innovations' aren't always terribly innovative.

Love when a health economist (@mattxsutton.bsky.social) uses a qualitative causal model (Directed Acyclic Graph) to critique econometric analyses and think through what parameters and data is needed for a robust model
#HESGBristol #EconSky #HealthEconomics @hope-uom.bsky.social

Am sharing our work on @bsky.app so we can get that sweet sweet blue on our @altmetric.com ring 😉

From our systematic review in @bmj.com, we developed a rich picture of the strategies and tactics for reducing the emissions produced by healthcare systems.
#healthsystemsustainability #healthpolicy
#healthcareimprovement