Surgical resident interested in doing two years of funded surgical health services research? Come join a great group of faculty Brigham and Women’s Department of Surgery CSPH as part of the Mentored Research Training in Aging and Surgery (MERITAS)! csph.brighamandwomens.org/meritas/

Excited to moderate this discussion of health care spending with two wonderful mentors Leemore Dafny Michael Chernew tomorrow! It’s not too late to register: harvardx.link/202402-webinar

Retailers and health systems each continue to search for ways to bring convenient and affordable care closer to patients. In the next Harvard Business Review, Vivian S. Lee, MD, Brad Staats, and I discuss how they might do that...together. hbr.org/2024/03/retail…

You might have heard the big news through the grapevine: ICON Plc (NASDAQ: ICLR) has officially acquired HumanFirst. Big thank you to Mario Aguilar at STAT for his clear writing & why this transaction is key to accelerate patient-centered research statnews.com/2024/02/29/ico…

Retailers and health systems can improve care together. s.hbr.org/49ZIaVm

I am looking to hire a new RA. R U Interested in health policy? Particularly prices and Medicare advantage? Have good analytic skills? Good at synthesizing literature? Knowledgeable about insurance markets, and/ or Medicare? This may be a good fit. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…

Calling all healthcare startups with a Harvard founder! We are accepting applications for our HBSHAA - HBSAA-NY Healthcare Startup Showcase until 11:59 PT, March 25, 2024. bit.ly/2024HBSHAA-HBS… HBS Alumni Harvard University Harvard Health Harvard Medical School Harvard Alumni Association @HBSHealth

A student in my class shared this FT article on transformers & I thought it was very nicely done: ig.ft.com/generative-ai/

Walmart had grand ambitions, back in 2019, to grow a network of cheaper primary care clinics attached to its ubiquitous stores. Those ambitions are now dead. trib.al/0eoWmFx

Ever wonder why your insurer charges a copay for statins (and other high-value meds)? Don’t they want to prevent heart attacks, strokes, etc? Copays never made sense to me. In this new paper in QJE, we show copays kill. 🧵 tinyurl.com/nhk4v93f

Delighted to be on this list alongside terrific leaders and scholars promoting health. Thank you for nominating me Sara Singer and #PatSatterstrom! I am lucky that I get to benefit from your mentorship & friendship ♥️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08… Karen Moseley Dr. Paul Terry

So thrilled for you Olivia Jung. Extremely well deserved!

If I didn't know better, I would think my employer had formally shifted my pharma benefits to Amazon. In reality, this is just a marketing tagline. Pretty sneaky, Amazon.

Anything that references a FedEx Kinko’s is, by definition, a spot-on description of the US health care system.

Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School MD/MBA Program Celebrates Two Decades of Integrated Leadership in Medicine and Management - News - Harvard Business School hbs.edu/news/articles/…

New paper with students Barnard College on testing orthogonal thinking / abstract reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models using the fascinating yet frustratingly difficult The New York Times Connections game. #NLProc #LLMs #GPT4o #Claude3opus 🧵(1/n)

Published today in the NEJM: Four Decades of Orphan Drugs and Priorities for the Future with Michael Sinha & Arti Rai 💊💉⚕️ nejm.org/doi/abs/10.105… Hasso-Plattner-Institut CeBIL Duke Law Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science

New research w/ Derrick Bransby @MichaelaJune suggests that new hires' #PsychologicalSafety erodes quickly after joining an organization. The good news? Departments with high PS reduce that decline & facilitate recovery 📖 Read the Harvard Business Review article: hbr.org/2024/07/resear…

Some personal news, as they say: I'm excited to take over as the new director of CLIIR-UCSF! I'm truly privileged to be able to build on the incredible foundation Julia Adler-Milstein has laid in making CLIIR a nationally renowned center for clinical informatics research.

🚨New Paper @HSR_HRET 🚨 Our (Soroush Saghafian, Robert Huckman, Nicole Hodgson MD, and I) study examines heterogeneity and impacts of EM physician 🏥👩‍⚕️ batch-ordering practices (the practice of placing simultaneous test orders 🩻) 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…