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Steven E. Waldren MD

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Family Physician, IT-ologist, and nice guy

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We’ve been talking a lot about AI and primary care—how it works, where it works best, and how it will ultimately help patients and physicians. Primary care has always been, and must continue to be, the most human part of health care so how we incorporate the capabilities of AI…

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Opinion | AI's Paradoxical Gift to Primary Care

Advanced tech enables doctors to return to the fundamentals of care


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AI is poised to reshape primary care, the critical question is how it will do so. In 2024, the American Academy of Family Physicians and Rock Health brought together primary care physicians and technology leaders to chart a path toward patient-centered, provider-led and…


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A new study from the @aafp and @Rock_Health reveals that family physicians and primary care clinicians are increasingly open to adopting AI and digital health tools—but concerns remain. A few key insights from the report: + Nearly 40% of family physicians and other primary care…


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Earlier this week Rep. @LloydSmuckerPA , along with a bipartisan group of co-sponsors (Reps. Crenshaw, Tenney, Schneider, Panetta and Schrier) introduced the Primary Care Enhancement Act. This legislation seeks to expand access to family medicine/primary care by permitting…


Univ of Missouri is offering Health Informatics Master’s degrees & certificates for grad-level students & working professionals. #health #informatics. Register today for informational session on January 7th, 2025, at noon CDT, and share with your network! tinyurl.com/BBMEprograms.


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The @aafp and our partners are excited to share that we will host the 2025 Direct Primary Care Summit July 24-27, 2025 at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans. Learn from the best faculty and network with your colleagues and friends in one the best cities. dpcsummit.org/home.html?utm_…


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Today we're introducing our new quantum chip, Willow! Willow is our first below-threshold quantum processor, which you can now read about in Nature t.ly/q7mVH. @KJSatz and I also wrote a blog about it t.ly/gEaQA. TLDR: QEC is blasting off. 🚀🚀🚀


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As Direct Primary Care gains mainstream recognition, new challenges and opportunities arise. At #HintSummit24, @DrQiu dove into how DPC can embrace innovation, diversify care, and collaborate to secure its future. 📽️ Watch the full conversation now: go.hint.com/4i6Npr7

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The AI reviewer can be the same model, but it must be another "instance" to review.

#ChatGPT is Terrible at Checking Its Own Code spectrum.ieee.org/chatgpt-checki…

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The last thing dominant EHR vendors, insurers, and large hospital chains want is for individuals PHI to be easily, safely, and securely shared under patient control. Patient agency of their PHI will be a game changer. Support the principals!

ReasObBob's tweet image. The last thing dominant EHR vendors, insurers, and large hospital chains want is for individuals PHI to be easily, safely, and securely shared under patient control.

Patient agency of their PHI will be a game changer.

Support the principals!

In the words of John Wick: Yeah I'm thinking I'm back! I will be posting on AI and Primary Care as well other interesting informatics stuff. youtu.be/BSfpoSrCGsQ?si…

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John Wick: "Yeah, I'm thinking I'm back!"


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💯🤣

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AI-powered ambient documentation support is a game changer, unburdening physicians and allowing more patient-focused time. But AI is less helpful for tasks that require nuance and do not have a clear right and wrong answer. — #AAFPFMX speaker Lisa Rotenstein, MD #AI


Kind of like the dot-com crash....

Bitcoin now below 19k, a 72% crash from its all time high in November 2021. 1000s of other shitcoins have lost 99% of their value and disappeared. And even the other Top 10 “cryptocurrencies” have lost 80-90% of their value from their ATH. This Ponzi house of cards is collapsing



Great to see a couple family physicians kicking off the #HintSummit22 #DPC #ProspectiveValueCare

techydoc's tweet image. Great to see a couple family physicians kicking off the #HintSummit22 #DPC #ProspectiveValueCare

Steven E. Waldren MD reposted

Learn why the @aafp Innovation Lab says an AI assistant for documentation is an essential innovation for family physicians. Register for a webinar featuring @techydoc to hear more about results he describes in this @MedEconomics article. my.demio.com/ref/BjYfWqOEYY…

aafp's tweet image. Learn why the @aafp Innovation Lab says an AI assistant for documentation is an essential innovation for family physicians. Register for a webinar featuring @techydoc to hear more about results he describes in this @MedEconomics article.  my.demio.com/ref/BjYfWqOEYY…

The results of physician trials led by the AAFP Innovation Lab are very promising. ow.ly/FVLW50Ik77H



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Major news concerning digital health. Digital health apps will require that individuals health information be in digital form. When will we get there if we stay on the current track? #improveHIT #PrinciplesFirst

ReasObBob's tweet image. Major news concerning digital health.

Digital health apps will require that individuals health information be in digital form.

When will we get there if we stay on the current track?

#improveHIT 
#PrinciplesFirst

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