The elimination of Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality's National Guidelines Clearinghouse health care is another astonishing and unconscionable blow for access to scientific information. thebea.st/2LdQhTj

Supplemental payment programs can increase access to new technologies, but some payments are made without clear evidence of safety and effectiveness, say Rita Redberg and colleagues in The BMJ. bmj.com/content/365/bm…

In JAMA, T Judson, michelle mourad & I describe new model–a Targeted Automatic eConsult (TACo)–w/ EHR-based triage of hi risk pts, remote review by specialist & brief consult ja.ma/2xeVogF Pioneered UC San Francisco for diabetes, we're excited to scale to other use-cases

So psyched that DEI education-activist and Med Ed guru Kimberly D. Manning, MD, MACP is hear with us UC San Francisco. #Inspiration

Excited to share data from our #COVID19 UCSF Symptom Checker published today in AMIA. Amazing effort by UCSF Health Clinical Innovation Center & DPE team, as we built and launched this in 2 wks and show how a self-triage tool can help w surge. bit.ly/2VcuIsq

This is a fabulous piece of work, and a vivid illustration of digital innovation on the fly solving a real-world and acute problem. Bravo!

Writing this story made me feel even more grateful to our providers and to anyone working to make us safer. Thank you for what you do - and continue to do. cnbc.com/2020/06/13/san…

Daily screening of healthcare workers will be key to preventing COVID-19 outbreaks. Our UC San Francisco strategy just published in AMIA: academic.oup.com/jamia/advance-… Aaron Neinstein, MD Anobel Odisho UCSF CDHI @conversahealth

The UCSF #Covid_19 Self-Triage continues to improve. >14k uses, >1k self-scheduled appts, and now pts can self-sched both video and in-person visits. If a surge hits SF, this is sure to help #UCSF patients. UCSF CDHI UCSFHospitalMedicine UCSF Health tinyurl.com/yxzd8ost

Tragically, we've all become numb to Covid's death toll. Sometimes it takes a tangible comparison to shake us out of complacency. I had such a moment today, when Covid deaths in the U.S. hit 875,000. That, as it happens, is the population of my city, San Francisco. Staggering.

Hospitalists, prepare to lead the acute and transitional care delivery of the future: doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13… Christopher A. Longhurst, MD Sarah_Horman MD UCSFHospitalMedicine UC San Francisco

How tech can get doctors back to seeing patients kevinmd.com/blog/2017/09/t… via Kevin Pho, M.D. Bob Wachter Eric Topol

Long past due in the U.S. x.com/JAMA_current/s…

Trump bans CDC from using a list of words. They include “evidence-based” wapo.st/2j7DbdS?tid=ss…

Low carb diets all the rage?!? Be aware they can cause SEVERE ketoacidosis in pregnancy/post-partum/high metabolic states as shown by #hospmed18 RIV Clinical Vignette winner UC San Francisco resident Tim Judson!!! Carlina Hakeem Bob Wachter Kiran Gupta UCSF School of Medicine #paleo #paleodiet

Wait, scurvy still exists!? Great poster from UC San Francisco’s Arvind Nishtala at #HospMed18. turns out the nutritionist made the diagnosis!

A must read for all of us in health care: The Real Cost of the US Health Care System ja.ma/2JSi9vM

Check out this much needed Charter on Physician Well-being ja.ma/2vqsv2Z by UCSF's own @LarissaThomasMD! Chiefs at Moffitt SFGH Chiefs UCSF VA Chiefs

$850,000 per treatment? Need to move to Value-Based Drug Pricing ja.ma/2FvooSM . Peter B. Bach, MD JAMA. Thanks to Charlie M. Wray, DO, MS for sending.

6 ways to cut U.S. healthcare spending from Dhruv Khullar The BMJ