Huge congratulations for a well deserved Excellence in Research award for Robert Burke at #SHMConverge24

Penn Medicine Division of Hospital Medicine

So grateful to teach about QI publishing with this all-star team in San Diego at #shmconverge24 Penn Medicine Division of Hospital Medicine CHIPS@Upenn Charlie M. Wray, DO, MS Suchita Shah Sata, MD Mike Tchou

An implementation strategy postmortem method developed in the VA rural Transitions Nurse Program to inform spread and scale-up

w/ Drs Dr. Heather Gilmartin Christine D Jones Chelsea Leonard brigidbconnelly Lynette.Kelley & VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System
in PLOS ONE
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38457367/

Check out NEW research by LDI Fellows Shazia Siddique MD MS, Jaya, Michael Harhay, Harald Schmidt, and Gary Weissman.⤵️

Any honor to testify! ICYMI — link is live so listen in on a bipartisan hearing with lots of great ideas!

Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly AAFP PrimaryCareCollab

Big news from Mass General Brigham today

Official announcement from CEO Anne Klibanski, MD:

Brigham and Women's Hospital MassGeneral Medicine are joining all clinical departments and academic programs into one.

Major step towards becoming officially 1 institution…

Have you ever finished a project and wondered what was the special sauce that made it work? If yes, then check out our #implementation strategy #postmortem method, published in PLOS ONE (open-access!). Survey tools and interview guides included so you can get started today :)

Scary? Depressing? Mind-boggling? Not sure of the best descriptor.
Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Atheromas and Cardiovascular Events | NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

NEW study by Ashvin Gandhi & Andrew Olenski find nursing homes hide profits through related party transactions.

Brittany Trang covers the study in STAT. Here is a short thread on why this matters for nursing home policy.
statnews.com/2024/03/07/nur…

🌟Real-time peer observation in #AcademicMedicine , focusing on education📚 + operations🏥, is feasible w/high satisfaction AND can support hospitalists' growth in 2️⃣ core domains.

🔗:bit.ly/3IkwIYr

Penn Medicine Division of Hospital Medicine #FacultyDevelopment

Falling behind: The growth of frail, high-need beneficiaries receiving home based primary care in traditional Medicare 2014–2021. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…

Awesome work from Penn Medicine Division of Hospital Medicine (Margot Cohen, Ashok Linganna, Joyce Kim, Andrew R Orr) re: our hospitalist peer observation program to improve educational and operational rounding practices …mpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Limiting access to CMS data is not just an academic concern. It will affect anyone enrolled in Medicare/Medicaid as well as the taxpayers who fund these programs.

Read more in my STAT piece below and please retweet to spread the word. We have work to do!

New in nursing home workforce: states that removed scope of practice restrictions for NPs experienced growth in NP visits to nursing homes but only in counties that already had nursing home NPs academic.oup.com/healthaffairss…

LDI Executive Director Rachel Werner argues that the new CMSGov rule changes will dramatically raise fees for access to the data which researchers use, making it far more difficult for young researchers & institutions to afford it. See more in STAT: statnews.com/2024/02/20/cms…

Massive change coming for academics that use CMSGov Medicare & Medicaid data…

CMS is phasing out ability for researchers to own/work on physical Medicare & Medicaid data.

Everyone must eventually migrate to Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC).

cms.gov/data-research/…

Kayty Himmelstein, along with Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social and Atheen Venkataramani of OfH, have a new paper in JAMA Internal Medicine looking at the potential impacts of different policies to distribute wealth on longevity in the United States:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38285594/

Great chatting with Penn LDI about our recent study: ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/resea…

Pretty remarkable stat from David Cutler's comment on recent CMS data: 'Medical spending as a share of GDP was virtually the same in 2022 as in 2009.'

If you'd told me back in 2009 that spending would level off like this, I wouldn't have believed you!
healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…

Funding Opportunity Alert! Join CLIIR-UCSF in partnership with The John A. Hartford Foundation and Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to advance 4Ms evaluation tools in healthcare settings. Up to five health systems will be selected, up to $125K each. Submit your application by 2/16/24. Link:  cliir.ucsf.edu/advancing-age-…