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    In our palliative medicine clinic in the working suburbs of Boston, my colleagues and I tend to some of the sickest patients in the city. Through the window, I can see the afflicted pull up to our squat building in family sedans, wheelchair vans, and subsidized municipal ride cars. Few drive themselves: most bear terrible illnesses that make them too frail or sedated. I watch as patients who are barely able to dress themselves, somehow arrive in their Sunday best for clinic. Our job, as their doctors, is

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    • Marc-David Munk is not impressed with the state of health care "our societal healthcare money has, simply, been diverted, tapped out....there is only a trickle left to deliver anything but the most miserly front-line care." https://t.co/2yFQLP9mg8

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    In a previous post in this series, we discussed healthcare’s migration toward Unified Digital Health Platforms (UDHPs) — a “platform of platforms.” Think of a UDHP as healthcare’s version of a Swiss Army knife: flexible, multi-functional, and (ideally) much better integrated than the drawer full of barely-used apps most health systems currently rely on. We included a list of 20+ companies jockeying for UDHP dominance, including two familiar EHR (electronic health record) giants — Epic and Oracle. This

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    • Health systems are slowly migrating toward Unified Digital Health Platforms (UDHPs) — a “platform of platforms.” @VinceKuraitis & Neil Jennings write about what the response of the mainstream EMRs (Epic & Oracle Health) will be. https://t.co/Rc7nU7lO4R

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    Let me be the first to introduce you to Claude Elwood Shannon. If you have never heard of him but consider yourself informed and engaged, including at the interface of AI and Medicine, don’t be embarrassed. I taught a semester of “AI and Medicine” in 2024 and only recently was introduced to “Claude.” Let’s begin with the fact that the product, Claude, is not the same as the person, Claude. The person died a quarter century ago and except for those deep in the field of AI has largely been forgotten –

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    • If you are deep into AI (or even if you're not) perhaps you should know why Anthropic's Claude is called Claude @drmikemagee has the story on @THCBstaff today, and it's a fascinating tale https://t.co/8vjkWbD7GY

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    We’ re witnessing a shift in how we process one of humanity’s most universal experiences: grief. Several companies have emerged in recent years to develop grief-related technology, where users can interact with AI versions of deceased loved ones or turn to general AI platforms for grief support. This isn’ t just curiosity, it’s a response to a genuine lack of human connection and support. The rise of grief-focused AI reveals something uncomfortable about our society: people are turning to machines

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    • Can AI and grief-bots help with those mourning loss? Melissa Lunardini from Help Texts thinks that they have great promise https://t.co/8VN0cx7KFg

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    What do television shows 60 Minutes, Roseanne, Designing Women, and Murder, She Wrote all have in common? They were top 10 prime time shows in the 1991 – 92 season according to Nielson Media research. Obviously, what Americans want to watch has changed in 34 years. The decline in market share the major networks – ABC, CBS, and NBC – have experienced, and the dramatic growth of streaming services proves the point. It makes sense to let people watch what they want to watch on the device of their choice,

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    • Did you know that Medicaid health plans are not really allowed to send a text to their members? Do you think that will make it easier if all of a sudden those members have to report their work status? Abner Mason has you covered on the topic https://t.co/vIqsDUZAPx

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    I was intrigued by Daniel Stone’s piece on THCB in May titled “Biden’s cancer diagnosis as a teaching moment”. In my practice as a board-certified nurse practitioner, I am frequently asked about prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing by my male patients. Nursing practice and medical practice often get blurred or lumped together. In the state of Colorado, nurse practitioners practice under their own license, and can independently diagnose and treat patients. In some settings where I have worked, I found

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    • The conversation about PSA testing and prostate cancer that's exploded with Joe Biden's diagnosis and screening or lack of it won't die down Kelli Deeter comes at this from being an NP, and reminds us that patient choice is important https://t.co/R1qw7l58MI

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    So the House has passed their “big, beautiful bill,” by the narrowest of margins. Crucial to the bill are large savings from Medicaid, which in past years Republicans would have taken some glee from but now they are careful to explain away as just cutting “waste, fraud and abuse,” having finally realized that many MAGA voters depend on Medicaid. If you are able to work and you refuse to do so, you are defrauding the system. You’ re cheating the system. And no one in the country believes that that’s

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    • Does anyone out there really believe that adding "work requirements" to Medicaid is anything other than simple cruelty to people who already have basically nothing? Well let Kim Bellard explain it to you https://t.co/8KVkS8WaOE

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    T-Maître Pierre’s Family Restaurant was a Louisiana institution. The kind of place where generations gathered over steaming mountains of boiled crawfish, spicy corn, and seasoned potatoes. A place where Clifton Chenier’s Louisiana Blues & Zydeco played in the background and the waitstaff wore starched white shirts with bright-colored bow ties. The walls were plastered with faded photos of people smiling. Nobody knew who they were anymore, but they felt like family. Pierre Thibodeaux, the founder, made

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    • How is the NIH like a Crawfish restaurant in New Orleans? Gregory Hopson thinks that if you take away the ambience and fire the wait staff, the customer ambience may not be so great.... https://t.co/C1C6Dbw0oK

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    Owen Tripp is CEO of Included Health. It started way back in the 2010s as a second opinion service but now has added telehealth, continuous primary care, behavioral health and guidance for its populations. He’s taken to calling what they do in one personalized healthcare. Underlying all this is a data integration and analytics platform that’s now being used by some of the biggest employers including Walmart, Comcast, CALPers and more. Essentially Included Health is building the new multi-specialty

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    • Today @IncludedHealth 's CEO Owen Tripp talks with @boltyboy about the company's all in one personalized healthcare. Underlying all this is a data integration and analytics platform that's now being used by some of the biggest employers https://t.co/VpWQAYgMcc

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    One of my frequent laments is that here we are, a quarter of the way into the 21 st century, yet too much of our health care system still looks like the 20 th century, and not enough like the 22 nd century. It’s too slow, too reactive, too imprecise, and uses too much brute force. I want a health care system that seems more futuristic, that does things more elegantly. So here are three examples of t he kinds of things that give me hope, in rough order of when they might be ready for prime time: Floss

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    • Did you miss optimistic Kim Bellard? Well he's back, explaining 3 in the lab technologies that might actually improve health care in the not-too-distant future https://t.co/u7bcRcZY9m