Very happy to announce that the Head and Neck Cancer Virtual coach app designed for people undergoing head and neck radiation is officially available for all to use. Download from apple or android app stores!

🚨otolaryngology residents & med students: download for free the Johns Hopkins Virtual Sinus Simulator, an interactive desktop app using 3D models to help explore the sinuses & skull base anatomy + surgical approaches tinyurl.com/2cwnfn6x Ani Saraswathula, MD Nicholas Rowan, MD

.Nicholas Rowan, MD Ani Saraswathula, MD & Rodney Schlosser make the case for olfactory dysfunction (OD) testing reimbursement in JAMA Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery Why? 20%+ of pop has some ° of OD, ⬆️ for older adults & effect of OD is broad, w notable QoL & psychosocial impact tinyurl.com/yc7usyyj

Very excited to share our work in JAMA on the cost of inpatient quality metrics with co-first author Sam Merck, Ge Bai, Christine Weston, Ann Skinner, April Taylor, Allen Kachalia, Renee Demski, and Stephen Berry! Johns Hopkins OHNS Armstrong Institute jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Caroline Park MD, MPH Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE 🇺🇸 JAMA Armstrong Institute Great point. We should automate as much as possible. This is 2023, we should not rely on hand-collected data for #quality metrics. Ani Saraswathula, MD Allen Kachalia

Policy makers should consider reducing the number of metrics and shifting to electronic metrics, when possible, to optimize resources spent in the overall pursuit of higher quality. ja.ma/3N04YdQ

ICYMI Ani Saraswathula, MD, Emily Boss, Dr. Christine Gourin along w/ William R. Blythe, MD & Dr. Soham Roy discuss the “Unrealized Potential of the Reg-ent ENT Clinical Data Registry” in JAMA Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery tinyurl.com/y2dcyesn Armstrong Institute

Are you an ENT student or junior resident, and sinus anatomy is tough? Try the Johns Hopkins Virtual Sinus Simulator (JHViSS), a free 3D desktop app that allows students and juniors sinus/skull base anatomy and relationships! Nicholas Rowan, MD Johns Hopkins OHNS clinicalconnection.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/the-johns…

Coverage by Johns Hopkins Medicine of our study in JAMA: …ine-matters.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2023/07/the-vo… Study link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… Ani Saraswathula, MD Allen Kachalia Albert Wu Johns Hopkins OHNS Armstrong Institute

Jennifer Hartwell, MD FACS The burden of data for quality improvement is real. Nice paper by Armstrong Institute team -Ani Saraswathula, MD Albert Wu Allen Kachalia on this in JAMA jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…