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As more apps have access to patient data, it is worth considering our idea to certify privacy policies. Better than asking users to read them. rand.org/pubs/research_…

🧵 Please see our new oped making the public health case for proposed health IT regulations from @ONC_HealthIT & CMSGov—and why OMB (Russ Vought) & HHS (Alex Azar) should finalize these provisions without further delay thehill.com/opinion/health…

Why now? After all this time, why does Epic suddenly take issue with the interop regs? Have they done an analysis they'd be willing to share with us?cnbc.com/2020/01/22/epi…

Took my kid to the ED (he’s fine). Me: How do I get portal access? Them: ... Me: Like the patient portal to get data on his care? Them: ... Let me tell you, I could have been speaking Klingon.

It is time for symptom monitoring to become a universal part of healthcare. See our blog: healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hbl… @MWFriedberg Daniel H Solomon #Covid_19

An innovation team at the University of Pennsylvania Health System demonstrates how an automated text-messaging system can remotely monitor patients with confirmed or suspected Covid-19 at home and quickly support patients with care. buff.ly/2WIjUns Penn Medicine #COVID19

Voting during a pandemic? In person voting can be done quite safely. Proud to be part @randcorporation effort on voting in age of #COVID19. Final report here. This survey found that vast majority of Americans believe -- as they should -- that in person voting can be safe 1/

Got a COVID-19 test at Convenient MD in July (after 3h wait). COVID tests are supposed to be free for patients. Got bill for an office visit with co-pay. I noticed but will others? Is there some gaming going on?

The promise of health IT is still there but it takes a lot of work to make it happen. Need more focus on helping health systems learn how to do it. See our study of 24 health systems: rand.org/news/press/202…

Lots of hard work going on in health systems to improve performance with health IT. We're still at the starting line. See my video podcast interview with @ThisWeekHIT Bill Russell

What Have We Learned About Leveraging Health Information Technology to Improve Health System Performance? Informative studies from RAND rand.org/health-care/ce…

Our preliminary data suggest that patients would use #COVID19 symptom screeners much more if the screeners were (1) right there in an app that patients already use and (2) linked to their doctor/nurse healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hbl… Anuj K Dalal David Bates

Why APIs in healthcare? See my recent publication in JAMIA Open #API academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/arti…

New work -- with Bob Rudin - we look at the various use cases of APIs in improving healthcare delivery academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/arti… -- supported by The Pew Trusts RAND Clinical Informatics | Mass General Brigham AMIA

Will APIs succeed in healthcare? No guarantee. Some use cases advancing faster than others. Need more demonstration projects to learn how to make it work. See my recent pub with William Gordon academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/arti…

Just published: How can #TEFCA ensure trustworthy health data exchange? Patients need 1) access, 2) visibility, and 3) controls. My perspective, together with Ken Mandl and JP Pollak: jmir.org/2022/11/e41750 #interoperability SMART Health IT

RCT: No difference in peer comparison vs an education intervention to improve PCP-patient medical test conversations during annual visits, but many lessons from quality results. ja.ma/49wYFZq Bob Rudin @klmulligan Karen Sepucha Leigh Simmons Ishani Ganguli MD, MPH

New📜JAMA Network Open: Our RCT of a peer comparison/education intervention to improve PCP-patient medical test conversations during annual visits jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Test overuse has direct/cascading harms for patients, clinicians. Efforts to⬇️specific low-value tests have faltered, so we designed a scalable intervention👇to prime routine test conversations that could improve decisions across a range of tests/cascades. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

How can we support patients transitioning home in the digital age? Check out our new perspective: Digitally powered care transitions: A paradigm shift for hospital medicine with Jorge A Rodriguez MD Bob Rudin Journal of Hospital Medicine Society of Hospital Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital DGIM …mpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…