Ateev Mehrotra
@Ateevm
Physician researcher at Harvard Medical School and RAND
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https://scholar.harvard.edu/mehrotra/home 09-02-2012 01:29:18
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Amidst growing enthusiasm for AI in healthcare, there are open questions on how we should pay for AI services.
In a new piece at Health Affairs we weigh in. healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…
New 📰Annals of Int Med
TLDR: We find the average older adult in traditional Medicare spends 3 weeks per year getting health care, mostly (17 days) ambulatory care like office visits, tests, and treatments.
11% of these adults spent 50+ days per year (!).
acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…
The Boston suburbs’ cynical ploy to keep poor families out: Use seniors as a shield bostonglobe.com/2023/10/01/opi… via The Boston Globe
Recently joined Joseph Kvedar, MD on @americantelemed’s podcast and discussed key challenges for the future expansion of #telehealth . americantelemed.org/resources/an-u…
Telemedicine was a crucial stop-gap during the pandemic, but are its best days behind us? Or is there more potential to tap?
Excited to share a new article w/ Ateev Mehrotra & Brown & Brown examining the tech, processes, and institutions that can unlock the next chapter of virtual care
New in JAMA Network Open: In nat'l Medicare survey, many older adults were personally offered phone visits, or chose phone visits, even when phone & video visits were available.
🧵on results, implications for Medicare/other payers' reimbursement policies
jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
Excited to share a new paper today with Brian McGarry and Ashvin Gandhi published today in NEJM
TL;DR Nursing homes with higher use of COVID-19 tests for staff had 30% fewer resident cases and 26% fewer deaths than low testing facilities. That's a LOT.
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nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
