Pharmacists are clinicians. That is the tweet.

I’m trying to grapple with blockchain’s applicability in patient records and/or FHIR (if any). Does anyone have a strong opinion here?

Periodic reminder that the so-called social determinants of health are working all the time. This is easy to forget when the social determinants are working just fine for you and yours. If you feel reasonably safe today, despite the unfolding crisis, ask why.

Inner Knowledge = Outer Force. The backbone to resiliency is knowing "who you are." It's underdeveloped in most people, and opens them up to find their identity in work or things - a fragile position. Here are some ways to think about it: 1/

1/ Tom captures well this reality. Where we are now with vaccinations, therapeutic- and with the Omicron variant- is very different from March 2020, or December 2020, or even October 2021. We were not wrong to urge NPIs when the population was spike naive, and R0 was 2.5

Anyone works in healthcare knows that access to transportation is a key social determinant of health, but this is an astounding stat.

How did I change my mind in 2021? bariweiss.substack.com/p/how-we-chang…

ConsejoSano is now SameSky Health! Since 2017, we've partnered with health plans to engage their members and remove barriers to care. We've never been more inspired to create a healthier, more equitable world. Afterall, we all live under the same sky. sameskyhealth.com/news/introduci…

In a survey of 6,500 nurses, 66% said they were considering leaving nursing. As the pandemic persists and Baby Boomers age, this will be a problem.

“Striving to disrupt health care by replacing practitioners has been one of the great missteps of digital health innovation, modeled on Silicon Valley’s displacements in other industries.” Couldn’t agree more, Sean Doolan.

There has been a lot of [rightful] criticism lately of telemed companies whose practices were more focused on top-line growth, at the expense of health benefits. But this should not repudiate the impact telehealth, whose impact on marginalized communities can be enormous. 👇1/

The longest running study on happiness: Harvard's 84 year old Study of Adult Development. Here are 7 lessons from the study to help you live a happier life:

Congratulations to our portco, Aclima, Inc., on being a finalist in two categories for Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Award! Environmental factors play an important role in health outcomes. Excited to continue to work together to advance #climateaction! webwire.com/ViewPressRel.a…

Really important work by the team at ⁦Aclima, Inc.⁩. ⁦Abner Mason⁩ - you’ll find this aligns with a lot of your findings on the SDOH impact on health outcomes. Aclima study shows Bay Area minorities breathe dirtier air - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

I asked #ChatGPT to list the reasons why tech enabled services are more effective than pure tech for care delivery. I’m not sure how it pulled this info, but this response was impressive. This AI is legit!

If half of all Americans don’t have a $1k emergency fund, how do they manage a $4k deductible? Abner Mason #Survey: 56% of Americans Don't Have $1,000 Emergency Fund cheddar.com/media/survey-5… via @Cheddar

Would also be interesting to see the percentage of per capita spend that falls on the patient and the correlation with that and global health rating and life expectancy.

If you sit in back-to-back meetings at work, read this: Microsoft's Human Factors Lab studied 14 participants across two days of video meetings. • Day 1: 4 back-to-back 30-min meetings. • Day 2: 4 30-min meetings with 10-minute breaks in between. Participants wore EEG caps

💰 Funding Create Health Ventures closed their inaugural $21M fund aimed at seed stage digital health companies focused on B2B solutions serving payers & pharma. Huge congrats to Emma Cartmell and Amit Aysola!

The human-to-human interaction in healthcare still matters and this interaction can lead to unique/nuanced insights. Thanks to the team at MedCity News for allowing us to discuss how these human-generated insights can be used to train AI in the future. medcitynews.com/2025/09/the-hi…