Alex Hoopes

@PhilMackey Why is Darnold holding onto the ball so looong? I'd be interested to see what their DBs are doing or if he's just tentative

The Vikings rank 2nd in the NFL in pre-snap penalties. Not great.

⁦@PhilMackey⁩ Happy Fairy Tale day to those who celebrate!

@PhilMackey God help us if the Wilfs witness the Packers "just get in the tournament" and then make a run.

Career playoff wins: CJ Stroud - 1 Jordan Love - 1 Kirk Cousins - 1

@PhilMackey Can’t wait to get my Kirk Cousins jersey at TJ Maxx tomorrow

Vikings fans trying to compute watching a mobile QB 😂😂

@PhilMackey You-doh, Darrishaw

Who is struggling more... The Vikings' offensive line? Or Kirk Herbstreit trying to figure out who the Vikings' offensive linemen are?

@sosarick @ThePurpleCode1 @Skolvikings_1 Hasn’t been top 10 in his own era but will be top 30 across all eras. Ok.

@friedberg science.org/content/blog-p… It’s time for another #sciencecorner 🚨🚨

@tjparker Unstructured data accurately interpreted (sure, with AI) and consumed is THE solution to healthcare interoperability. Trying for force orgs to align on the same version of FHIR or HLV vX has not/does not/will never reach mass adoption. Faxes ftw!

Elliot Cohen, fax enthusiast

@healthcareandy I’m very curious how much of this RIF affects roles made redundant by these acquisitions. Direct, acquisition-driven layoffs would not be surprising at all.

CVS is laying off 5,000 workers. For those affected, it’s hard not to take it personally. I’ve heard complaints since CVS also just beat Q2 2023 earnings and revenue estimates. It feels like cost-cutting to offset the acquisitions of Signify Health and Oak Street Health, neither of which is cash flow positive. My best advice is to network, network, network. Every job posting gets dozens to hundreds of applicants within a week of posting. You need to do more. Good luck out there.

@nikillinit Isn’t Homeward Health leaning into rural care? Not sure if they’re going into full acute care though. My business only deals in hospital-at-home but right now these programs still revolve around the nuclear hospital and are in metros

has anyone seen a good version of this? source: kffhealthnews.org/news/article/r…

I'm interested in companies that are leaning into the new Rural Emergency Hospital designation (aka. no inpatient beds) that also use Hospital-at-Home level care to let patients be inpatients at home this effectively can create micro-hospitals with smaller footprints

@StuartBlitz @ColtonOrtolf I would think they’ll always be the best of breed for large, integrated healthcare institutions (ie hospitals) but more care is being unbundled/delivered outside physical hospitals so Epic’s absolute impact would diminish.

@ColtonOrtolf How is it starting already outside the hospital? Are health systems moving away from Epic? Genuinely curious since it seems like the hardest stranglehold to break!

Epic has probably one of the most incredible suites of software in the world - kudos to their team and to the business Judy built. But ... they only have so much time left. The concept of the "EMR" is antiquated, as is the full-stack approach to healthcare tech.

@tomhalterman @AustinBaeth If you’re offered the choice to be punched in the stomach once or twice, would you choose to get punched once but also ask to not get punched at all?

@AustinBaeth Would you have voted for the bill if your amendment had been approved?

IA GOP copied the “medical emergency exemption” from other states’ abortion bans, failing to learn from their mistakes: women being denied timely life-saving medical care. Republicans rejected the fix that I offered. How many Iowa women & girls must be harmed before they rethink?

@TheChiefNerd Who puts pregnant women in clinical trials??

Aaron Siri on How the CDC/FDA Market the Flu Shot to Pregnant Women Without Clinical Trial Data "We FOIA'ed the FDA w/ a simple request. Please provide all the clinical trials relied upon to license the flu shot for pregnant women...They finally admitted we don't have any clinical trials because it's never been licensed for pregnant women." @AaronSiriSG @delbigtree @HighWireTalk

@njkingsbury57 @anarresian @DBZHGWgamer @TheChiefNerd I’m not sure how a layperson is going to evaluate the accuracy and honesty of these theoretical organizations. Again, seems plausible until you start parsing through the details.

@AlexHoopes3 @anarresian @DBZHGWgamer @TheChiefNerd The agencies are also incentivized to not become corrupt because then their customer base loses trust in them, unlike the government agencies where we don’t have a choice

🔥 Robert F. Kennedy Jr Debates a Family Physician on Vaccine Safety During the NewsNation Town Hall

@njkingsbury57 @anarresian @DBZHGWgamer @TheChiefNerd Good in theory but then I think to the independent bond rating agencies (Moody’s, S&P) who did a terrible job risk scoring in the run-up to the Great Recession. The companies pay the agencies which creates incentives.

@AlexHoopes3 @anarresian @DBZHGWgamer @TheChiefNerd If there were multiple, they would compete for the public trust. If there were one with a perfect record of not approving anything that later showed it was unsafe, I would make sure anything I gave my family had their approval specifically.

@njkingsbury57 @anarresian @DBZHGWgamer @TheChiefNerd Not sure that solves any fundamental problems. Don’t you want your drug approvers to be somewhat accountable to the public?

@AlexHoopes3 @anarresian @DBZHGWgamer @TheChiefNerd Non-governmental independent review boards

@SethDillon All I’ve learned this week is that I’m clearly under-utilizing cakes as a medium to convey all my strongest-held beliefs. “Happy Birthday”? Amateurism.

Leftists don't seem to realize that this ruling protects them, too. They can never be compelled by the state to make a cake for a conservative that says, "trans women are men" or "gender-affirming care is child abuse." Their own freedom of expression has been preserved here. The only thing that hasn't been preserved is their non-existent right to trample on the freedom of others.

@BillAckman @PershingSqFdn You should challenge established, data-supported science with new, credible data. Not wild ideas unsubstantiated by anything other than the source’s imagination and biases.

For context, I am pro-science (it is sad to say that I have to declare this upfront) and our family foundation, the @PershingSqFdn, is a major funder ( ~$100m to date with more to come) of scientific research, but something has gone really wrong with science and our country when anyone who challenges currently accepted science is branded a conspiracy theorist and is censored by major media companies. The scientific method is about constantly challenging our assumptions. It is about skepticism and deep research to understand and explain new data that are inconsistent with initial observations or conclusions. Science is an unending search for the truth, and this ongoing search is critical, as what was once deemed to be settled science is often revised or reversed with the passage of time. For example, consider how the science of human nutrition has changed dramatically over time, or hypotheses about the causes for Alzheimer’s. And it wasn’t that long ago that doctors were quoted in ads recommending cigarettes as good for your health. We should value those critics who challenge the status quo and continue to ask the hard questions. It is particularly important to do so when the economics of the current scientific understanding provide rewards to industry that are in the hundreds of billions of dollars, with the associated unavoidable perverse incentives. We should seek to answer the concerns of those who challenge the current scientific wisdom. We should not simply dismiss them as conspiracy theorists. Doing so impedes the progress of scientific knowledge, and may cause us to miss opportunities to correct mistakes that continue to cause harm. @RobertKennedyJr and others have raised important questions about the safety of some vaccines and have sought explanations for the dramatic increases in the incidence of childhood allergies, autism, and other health issues. These are good questions that have not been adequately answered. And I say this from the perspective of someone who is fully vaccinated along with my kids. RFK may be right or wrong in his theories. That said, his concerns are ones shared by millions of parents and others. Rather than censor RFK and the skeptics, shouldn’t we instead seek to understand the causes for the massive increase in autism and allergic diseases in our children over the last 30 or so years? If vaccines are not the cause for increased autism and other allergenic conditions, then what is the cause or causes? I think we would all greatly benefit by dropping the words ‘conspiracy theory’ from our lexicon and opening our minds to the possibility of improbable alternative explanations. When one hears something labeled a conspiracy theory, the natural reaction is to dismiss the theory. That is not a good way to get the truth. Conspiracy theories are actually just theories that are labeled as such to discourage further investigation. I have had my own serious issues with @TuckerCarlson over the years and disagree with him on many subjects, but I have to say he gets its right in this evening’s episode which is worth a watch. I recommend the Tucker segment at the risk of discrediting everything I have said above for certain audiences. That said, I am a strong believer in seeking the truth from a wide spectrum of observers and media participants. I encourage you to give this approach a try. When even your worst enemy has an insight you agree with, I have often found it has a higher probability of being true. I think you will find this approach will make it easier to get closer to the truth in an uncertain world.