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I am happy to say the "Followers only" reply setting is getting implemented. We're also adding a way to set default reply settings If you want your posts to default to "Followers only," that'll become an option

submitted 16 days ago • 870 comments

@Lygeia is here too! @lygeia-r.bsky.social I can't be on the #HITSM chat at noon ET today 1/31, but here are the details. @healthcareittoday.com Tag them to get on their BSky HIT list - the place to be! Love to be seeing the smooooth writing of John Lynn @techguy.healthcareittoday.com again!

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Who's going to join us tomorrow for the first ever #HITsm chat on Bluesky? Details: http://dlvr.it/THh4fB Invite your friends. #HITsm

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I just dropped everything to join Bluesky when I saw there was an #HITSM chat tomorrow. I miss my peeps! 🥰 @healthcareittoday.com

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Can private sector serve up sufficient #healthmedia to compensate for public sector gaps? Reflections on repeated #404Error messages from #publichealth govt websites on #CDC #NIH & WhiteHouse.gov (looking for a Jill Biden speech on #womenshealth at #JPM2025) bit.ly/3Q0cZ4h #hcsm #healthliteracy

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Hey everybody, Jane's here! THAT Jane - Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, aka elsewhere as @HealthyThinker! Follow, you will. @healthythinkerjsk.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I'd even say we need to stop using the word "experts," because, frankly, idiots no longer trust experts! I'm starting to think we need to come back down to the eighth grade insult-war level like them and argue in terms of "You're so stupid you think Bambi is a fish," to quote Gilda Radner

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

A new resource rating >50,000 foods from 3 grocery stores (Walmart, Target, and Whole Foods) for degree of processing and breakdown of ingredients www.nature.com/articles/s43... Website for consumers www.truefood.tech

submitted 41 days ago • 28 comments

New post on the #PatientsUseAI Substack, by Gilles Frydman (@kosherfrog.bsky.social), the pioneering #PatientEmpowerment guy who in 1995(!) created ACOR, which helped save my life. Today he's hugely into generative AI for patients. Check it out! patientsuseai.substack.com/p/patientsus...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Primary care fields Pediatrics, Family Practice & Internal Medicine are having trouble filling their residency slots. Low pay, high admin burdens (prior authorizations w/low support) make these fields undesirable leaving many communities without access to essential care. buff.ly/4fQsFS9 medsky 🛟

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

"Zak’s involvement illustrates something exquisitely important: nothing about patient empowerment is a rejection of doctors." I agree entirely, Dave!

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

I'm thrilled to announce: I authored a four page article on #PatientsUseAI in Men's Health magazine, on newsstands now! It's GREAT to see patient empowerment in a well edited consumer magazine. Stories from the #PatientsUseAI Substack, and more! patientsuseai.substack.com/p/patientsus... #medsky

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Great source of news and info. Give it a follow

submitted 52 days ago • 84 comments

Yet another powerful example of how people living with serious illnesses (the "heartbeat...of the cells they studied") can change the game in research and drug development www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/h...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Hey #MedSky I'm amazed nobody's yet posted this excellent piece, which I just stumbled onto on some other platform. It's good! (Why isn't Becker's VP/Editorial Molly Gamble over here yet??) www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-man...

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Such an honor to be part of your work this past year, @yuriquintana.com Thank you for the invitation, and here's hoping we can find a way to continue the collaboration in '25!

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

It has been a while since I’ve seen @erictopol.bsky.social so excited about a development in as in this podcast with @mcuban.bsky.social and rightfully so IMHO. Trump should hire him as his healthcare-tzar ;-) will save more than DOGE all together AND oppose DOGE without adverse “side effects“

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

A remarkable read- The family story of a carrier of the gene for frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is moving the field towards potential therapies

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Hello mother? Hello father? In the first hour after an earthquake, who you call reveals something important about your social network ties. An earthquake is a natural experiment in stressing one's network. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... #HNL work from 2023 in @pnasnexus.org

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500M funding round

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

4 pm ET today - Gilles Frydman, Hugo Campos and me on @boltyboy.bsky.social 's THCB Gang livestream podcast. It will be HOT. open.substack.com/pub/patients... #MedSky @gracecordovano.bsky.social @rasushrestha.bsky.social #PatientsUseAI

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Congress nears deal to rein in PBMs after years of debate www.statnews.com/2024/12/16/p... The policies in the package would put guardrails around how PBMs can operate.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane. We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵

submitted 75 days ago • 2160 comments

More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

A smart colleague called me over to Xitter to see an excellent thread about #PatientsUseAI. Really good stuff - lots of thoughts. And then, as if by guarantee, in pops one of the resident demons I'd almost forgotten about. What a toilet.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Me! I'm going to be gross here: sometimes it feels like flipping up a toilet lid and discovering that somebody forgot to flush Sorry / not-sorry... ... but doesn't that match the kid's expression??

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

And here we bring you the latest about the genius who thinks he wants to fix US government spending. Or maybe he knows the truth, and he's just lying.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

🔥 Embrace #BlueSky like Dr Eric Topol at #RSNA24! ☑️ Every medical conference speaker should have their @bsky.app handle (and not the other one) on their conference badge and talk/s! LET’S GO ALL-IN PEOPLE! @erictopol.bsky.social @rsnasky.bsky.social #MedSky #AcademicSky

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

The other day I realized that half of what I do on bluesky is repost Eric Topol. Then I realized, that's not without reason: this guy's feed is 2/3 of a "what you need to know today" curation! :-)

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

When Mark Cuban took Muskie-boi to school about the enormous structural problem of US healthcare's money tumor

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

“Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield plans representing CT, NY and MO have unilaterally declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia care if the surgery or procedure goes beyond an arbitrary time limit, regardless of how long the surgical procedure takes” www.asahq.org/about-asa/ne...

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments

I personally don’t celebrate gun wielding assassins in broad daylight under any circumstances. That being said: United HealthCare absolutely did try to kill me by trying to cut my chemotherapy dosage and I had to get my senator to intervene and it was one of the most traumatic weeks of my life.

submitted 81 days ago • 116 comments

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

submitted 80 days ago • 580 comments