Celebrating tabular data, we're excited to share the winners of the 2022 Table Contest! There are R & Python examples & tutorials, all with well-documented code & narrative. So many amazing entries, thank you to all who participated! posit.co/blog/winners-o… #rstats #pydata #gt

Cures FHIR APIs are live as of December! Most EHRs actually hit the deadline (at least one paper). It can be hard to find the new APIs. Here's how I do it.

Price Transparency in Health Coverage: .. Improving data access, usability shorturl.at/ixSZ7. Thanks Sabrina Corlette for leadership. Highlights: 1) Plans and issuers publicly posted provider reimbursement rates starting 2022; critical tool for understanding cost drivers.

Good evidence for the case that we shouldn’t be trying to eliminate prior auth,we should be focused on implementing it more efficiently - transparently, digitally and with better targeting, both with respect to clinical logic and provider selection/exemption.

Seems like a crime to have zero education in medical school about CPT codes, revenue cycle management, and RVUs.

#pandas 2.0 will be released soon. I wrote about one of the most important changes we're shipping with it. datapythonista.me/blog/pandas-20…

🎉 Happy Birthday! R 1.0.0 was first released on February 29, 2000! It is #opensource and has popularity worldwide, used in data science, data analysis, pharmaceuticals, epidemiology, journalism, and many more industries. How do you use R? #Rstats ➡️r-consortium.org/blog/2023/02/2…

webR v0.1.0 has just been released! I'm super excited to see what people create by using webR in their own projects 😃. The docs are at docs.r-wasm.org and I've written an introductory blog post talking more about the kind of things webR can do at tidyverse.org/blog/2023/03/w….

Why on earth does Medicare pay more $$ for the exact same service with the exact same doctors involved after a hospital buys the physician's practice?? How & for what services to put an end to that (among several other topics) in our new brief: brookings.edu/essay/procompe…

This is wild. #rstats #webR

Just one of many advanced methods payers have developed to absolutely dominate healthcare reimbursement. They’re playing chess while providers and patients play checkers. propublica.org/article/cigna-…

My book "Building reproducible analytical pipelines with #rstats" is done! Buy a drm-free epub or pdf Leanpub: leanpub.com/raps-with-r/ Read for free forever: raps-with-r.dev Physical coming to Amazon on June 20th!

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My employee thinks I think he’s an AI genius (I don’t) I just read his Twitter or whatever it’s called now. Nice try dogg

sigfig Chough 𓅫 Dr. falcon futures are possible 𓅃 Imagine if we had an archive of everything Cicero said in the baths. A thousand years from now that is a twitter archive.

we failed to get shared savings (make any money) in our first performance year Aledade in 2015 it was crushing. so we wrote a peer reviewed paper dissecting what had happened ajmc.com/view/the-oppor…

Coding in its final (Google) form

PointClickCare decision is fascinating and very important. Both parties admit that the use of unsolvable CAPTCHAs was information blocking. However, PointClickCare claimed that it fell under these three exceptions (in thread) mcknights.com/news/skeptical…

Meetings about meetings. JUST LET ME DO MY JOB! Overmanagement. JUST LET ME DO MY JOB! Office politics. JUST LET ME DO MY JOB! Politics politics. JUST LET ME DO MY JOB! Software that makes things harder. JUST LET ME DO MY JOB! Wrapped up in red tape. JUST LET ME DO MY JOB!