Ok this clip about navigating the American Healthcare System from the recent South Park ozempic special (which was brilliant) needs to be the opening of every healthcare conference panel

Yesterday’s Grand Rounds with Tobias Deuse Sammy Elmariah MD MPH and Kirsten Tolstrup MD on updates in valvular heart disease assessment and management is now on our Youtube channel. Lekshmi Santhosh, MD MAEd Bob Wachter youtu.be/mbmi4GG0GIs

New position Julia Adler-Milstein's UCSF DoC-IT division & UCSF Department of Medicine: Faculty lead for AI-Enhanced Medical Education. Job: to lead our work in 1) Educating About AI (educating our people on best uses for AI), & 2) Educating With AI (building AI into our med ed). Info: files.constantcontact.com/068a48b3801/fa…

Congratulations to our fabulous graduating UC San Francisco Medicine residents, superb physicians and people who will change the world. Rebecca Berman UCSF IM Chiefs UCSF Department of Medicine UCSF School of Medicine

Last week’s Grand Rounds with Bridget OBrien Griffin Plattner MD Jackeline Vajta MD and Brian Schwartz on Exploring Barriers to Giving and Receiving Feedback in the DOM is now on our Youtube channel. Lekshmi Santhosh, MD MAEd Bob Wachter youtube.com/watch?v=Hb95VW…

So fun! Our new interns are, as usual UCSF Department of Medicine, extraordinarily smart, wildly accomplished, and amazingly lovely human beings. We’re lucky to have them. UCSF IM Chiefs Rebecca Berman Lekshmi Santhosh, MD MAEd Ryan Laponis

Yesterday's Grand Rounds with George W. Rutherford Allison Bond, MD Peter Chin-Hong MD and Deborah Yokoe, MD, MPH provides an update on respiratory infections for the summer: COVID-19, influenza, mpox and more - now on our Youtube channel. Lekshmi Santhosh, MD MAEd Bob Wachter youtube.com/watch?v=-Yu1yt…

FYI, I got the 6-month Covid booster last week. I'm >65 & thus eligible, and there's enough evidence of an uptick, particularly in CA (SF wastewater graph below) that it seems prudent for eligible folks to have extra protection this summer. Will plan to get new shot in Oct-Nov.

Today NEJM AI,@ashleybeecymd Christopher A. Longhurst, MD Karandeep Singh @saramurraymd and I describe the emerging role of the Chief Health AI Officer. Unknown two years ago, I suspect that by 2026 all large health systems will have a CHAIO. Sara is ours UCSF Health. ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

A thrill to be interviewed by Don Berwick for his (& Kedar Mate, MD's) terrific Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) podcast, Turn on the Lights. We covered origins of the hospitalist field & the digital transformation of healthcare (w/ focus on the impact of #AI). Really fun discussion. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/let…

Fine The New York Times piece by Teddy Rosenbluth on prior auth in Age of AI. Doc were thrilled to have AI to draft prior auths. Insurance companies, of course, enlisted their own AI to reject many of these requests, creating an AI prior auth arms race. I'm quoted. nytimes.com/2024/07/10/hea…

Perhaps a small thing on a big day, but I'm hoping for a new setting for The New York Times alerts that allows me to be notified that the President is dropping out of the race while not notifying me of who won the British Open (which I'm taping).

Characterizing the significance and response to the current US Covid wave A new Ground Truths analysis (link in profile) Thanks JWeiland for the modeling work and graph below

Lovely The New York Times review of UC San Francisco's Dean Schillinger's Dean Schillinger memoir Telltale Hearts. "Riveting," "Like a medical version of Arabian Knights," "A cry for social change." Dean's humanity shines through, as does the importance of the patient's story. nytimes.com/2024/08/03/hea…

We are thrilled to announce that Atul Butte, MD, PhD (Atul Butte) has received the 2024 Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence. lnkd.in/gy5YACpb

The new Covid KP.2 booster vaccines are becoming available throughout the US. Besides high-risk (e.g. age 65+, immunocompromised, comorbidities), one of the most important reasons to get boosted, often overlooked, is to reduce #LongCovid risk by ~50%. Agree with Marks at FDA

It’s been a joy to see the growth, productivity, and innovation of our informatics, AI, & digital transformation work under Julia Adler-Milstein’s leadership. A Jay Holmgren will do an exceptional job leading the Center for Clinical Informatics & Improvement Research.

Jon Stewart breaks down the future of AI in the workplace and whether we're all about to become "Prompt Engineers"

The future of healthcare's digital transformation will depend on our ability to link cutting-edge tech (incl. AI) with a deep understanding of the people, culture, and workflow. I'm thrilled Lisa Rotenstein MD has launched ADAPT to advance this work, with Julia Adler-Milstein & UCSF DoC-IT

Pleased to see @UCSFHealth on Becker's Hospital Review list of health systems leading in AI. All sites on list are doing terrific work as we sort out how to leverage this amazing tech. Also pleased to see shoutouts for Sara Murray & me, along with many other leaders. beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-inf…