
fredhersch
@fredhersch
medicine / technology / global heatlh / design. opinions are my own.
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26-06-2008 01:06:15
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Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries. But they spend much more on health than them. Our work from Our World in Data in the New York Times article "Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980" nytimes.com/2018/05/14/ups…




Congratulations Atul Gawande on your new post. Hope your leadership can set a new path forward for #healthcare businesswire.com/news/home/2018…


Have you seen the Heartisans wearable BP watch. I just got one and am still in the process of calibrating it .. but pretty promising. x.com/Mark_Huffman/s…

Related to the earlier tweets, Bill Gates asked me which statistics we should all know if we want to understand how the world is changing. Here he published my answer on his blog: gatesnotes.com/Development/Ma…

Many of you requested teaching material on global development from us. Esteban Ortiz-Ospina has therefore produced 5 slide decks for teaching and they are now available online – hopefully at a good time with the start of the academic year coming up soon: ourworldindata.org/teaching-notes

Ignore the headlines - the world is getting better youtu.be/VHwKyJOlZxU thanks Max Roser and Our World in Data love that you are featured on Tiệm Hoa Nắng - Hoa Tươi tại Tam Kỳ





To celebrate its 25th anniversary, Nature Medicine has an incredible, packed issue on digital medicine & #AI. Deep learning ECG for heart function & rhythm, kidney disease, many perspectives nature.com/nm/ congrats to @immuno_stuff and team for pulling all this together





The share of children who died before they were 5 years old in 1950 and 65 years later. Africa: 32% ↘ 8% Asia: 25% ↘ 4% Oceania: 9% ↘ 3% Latin America: 20% ↘ 2% Northern America: 4% ↘ 0.6% Europe: 11% ↘ 0.6% Globally: 22% ↘ 4.5% From our publication Our World in Data.


For clinicians wanting to get into #AI, ML, these are the 3 recent papers I would recommend: 1.thelancet.com/journals/landi… The Lancet Digital Health by Livia Faes Pearse Keane 2. nature.com/articles/s4225… Nature Machine Intelligence James Zou 🍉 Abubakar Abid 3.jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… JAMA Google AI


Digital health: A UX perspective The Daily Star thedailystar.net/opinion/news/d…

We need all countries to be part of World Health Organization (WHO) to keep everyone, everywhere safe and healthy. #WeNeedWHO now more than ever to deliver on #HealthForAll.
