Maverick's Update

We are disappointed in the lack of good movies available right now. Don’t even get us started on Thor: Love and Thunder (though we appreciate Natalie Portman’s resurrection as Jane Foster, astrophysicist-turned-demi-god-who-works-out-a-lot is a good role for her). In the One Thoughtful Paragraph below, we explain how the lack of new movie availability is probably a good thing because we have some work-related reading to do.

Other news that made us realize we have a lot of reading to catch up on:

• The American Hospital Association published a report to accompany its annual leadership meeting and Chapter 3 is all about how leveraging clinical information and creating data-related partnerships is really important for the future success of hospitals.

• The HHS Office of National Coordinator of Health IT released two blog posts: one about how ONC’s ProjectUS@ is making sure that all communities are represented in their patient matching project and another that explains its future role in coordinating and establishing greater consistency with health-IT-related activities across all HHS agencies.

• Two articles from the Journal of the American Medical Association that we plan to read: one is a JAMA Network Open study about how algorithms used to read text from death certificates significantly accelerated data collection of overdose deaths, potentially improving existing public health responses; another is a JAMA Internal Medicine study finding that remote patient monitoring among Medicare patients increased 555% during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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