Creative Sandpaper, MIT 2.009, pretending to design the future of healthcare at https://xitter.cf/t.co/khC1yxGXrj, lives #opensource, [email protected]
Arlington, MA
Joined July 2007
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Want to see where your health dollars go?
goinvo.com/vision/healthcare…
Juhan Sonin retweeted
The best companies care about making their software fast.
- Fast software eliminates cognitive friction. We increasingly spend our time on computers, and most software is some combination of slow + unintuitive. Software feels magical when it bridges performances + optimized interface design—the best software surprisingly works exactly as you hoped.
- Fast software signals simplicity, and this is only going to become rarer with LLM-generated code + content. The best companies do a couple things really, really well (and handle all of the complexity behind the scenes).
- Fast is relative. LLMs unlock a level of capabilities + speed previously not possible. At the same time, we're only at the beginning of this paradigm shift. Today's era is mostly focused on capabilities rather than performance. This will shift over time.
catherinejue.com/fast for more
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An utterly deranged development, it's hard to even comprehend — an escalating assault on our biomedical research enterprise that goes against the interests of basically anyone who wants to live a long life.
White House blocks NIH from awarding any research grants statnews.com/2025/07/29/trum…
Juhan Sonin retweeted
12 lessons students learn in the Sinclair Lab:
Lesson 1. Write the way you speak
Useful to @DOGE_HHS @DOGE @HHSGov around fraud, waste, and abuse (fraudwasteabuse.org/) AND where your health dollars go (healthcaredollars.org/).
#OpenSource #FWA
I had a hard time seeing @KamalaHarris' policies, so this was born. All candidates need a straight-forward, easy-to-grok "these are my positions" piece. cc @Rob_Flaherty #opensource
What’s a little #healthcare fraud between friends? Just a casual $400 billion—that’s 10% of healthcare’s GDP. And don’t forget, there’s an extra 20% wasted for good measure.
The dirty details at our #opensource visual report: fraudwasteabuse.org
Juhan Sonin retweeted
I have a new @nytopinion post saying that President Biden should cap his long career of public service with one more step for the nation's good: Withdrawing from the presidential race and throwing the choice of Democratic nominee to the convention: nytimes.com/2024/06/25/opini…
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Software is going to melt into everything and nothing all at once
Asked Claude-3.5 to implement an example patient application using the Good Faith Estimates provided by the Patient Cost Transparency Guide (nitty gritty healthIT interop spec)
And it one-shotted a React app
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State governments spent a combined $64 billion on incarceration in 2021. The median state spent $65k per prisoner. Arkansas spent the least, at just under $23k per prisoner, while Massachusetts spent way over the median: $307k per prisoner.
Because MA spends so much per prisoner, they also imprison the fewest people, which I think is the correct way of going about prison. It should cost A LOT to imprison someone. That way we try to avoid imprisoning people and instead prevent crime.
Universal basic income would mean a lot less crime and a lot lower recidivism. It would significantly reduce the number of people being locked up.
Let's invest in people instead of the prison industry.
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In the spirit of #opensource,
here's our take on the @ARPA_H Paradigm program's need (Task Activity 5) for AR-based training + CDS for community healthcare workers and RNs... on board a mobile clinic on wheels.
arpahparadigmdesign.org/
Chatted with the Amazon delivery driver... he's recovering from the field of BioPharma, and as a biochemist, he recently worked on Dx for autism... etc etc.
WTActualF.
Juhan Sonin retweeted
As we work to develop & deploy #AI in #healthcare consider benefits, risks, ethical Qs
via @WHO report on #AIhealt
tinyurl.com/mpff94sb
6 principles: autonomy, #wellbeing, #transparency, #accountability, #inclusion & #sustainability
#UXhealth #healthequity #healthjustice
2024: Data Ownership Gets Hot. I'll take it!
PS: ownyourhealthdata.org
and shmpublications.onlinelibrar…
@BrettKing
Brilliant quotes from 2023:
Context = visioning for the future of healthcare:
"When the patient faxes their health record..."
Hair pulling and comedic that the @MIT #generativeAI climate-health briefings are located in the @KochIndustries building on campus.
Asked a few researchers where the $$ comes from (yes, We are All Dirty)… to blank stares.
PS: @Harvard still has a Sackler building. – at Cambridge, MA
Juhan Sonin retweeted
Here's a new one where I regress back into beating the pulp out of people (who richly deserve it) for their fashion mistakes.
THE FASHION ATROCITIES OF SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS , by @xintra open.substack.com/pub/cintra…
