John Brownstein
@johnbrownstein
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Infectious disease epi; Professor @HarvardMed; Chief Innovation Officer @BostonChildrens; CoFounder @Healthmap @Vaccinefinder @globaldothealth; Contributor @ABC
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Joined December 2008
Responsible AI for Social and Ethical Health: Clinical AI systems need a "Values In the Model" (VIM) label; like nutrition labels for the value tradeoffs embedded in every recommendation. Autonomy vs. beneficence? Cost vs. intervention? Make the hidden visible. @nejm_ai
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Is this what disruption of the medical establishment is going to look like? Calling service that includes transcription & summarization adds to most popular decision support AI used by clinicians in the US. Without going through their hospital CIO. Plus advertising. HT @mandl
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Exciting new work from @thekaransinghal and the heatlh team at @OpenAI
📣 Excited to share our real-world study of an LLM clinical copilot, a collab between @OpenAI and @PendaHealth. Across 39,849 live patient visits, clinicians with AI had a 16% relative reduction in diagnostic errors and a 13% reduction in treatment errors vs. those without. 🧵
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Although Atul was always at the cutting edge of science he had the presence and expansive outlook of the intellectual giants of the previous century. His integrative approach to biomedicine has inspired thousands. But first he loved his family and friends with an enthusiasm that
Atul Butte died yesterday. The world lost a giant. A big bear of a man. With a huge smile. With love for everyone. With energy that could power a room. I loved everything about Atul. I loved how he was always happy. I loved how excited he was about science and helping people.
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To quickly operationalize gen AI-assisted workflows, organizations are working together—alongside Epic experts—through a new program called Launchpad. The program features a starter kit of gen AI use cases, helping orgs move from idea to operational gains in a matter of days.
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PRESS RELEASE: @beacon_bio launches in beta version tomorrow as new open source global outbreak reporting platform. BEACON combines AI/LLM & a global network of subject matter experts to provide near real-time disease alerts. https://t.co/XEYjmOpcq5
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For the first time in over a decade, obesity rates in the United States may finally be heading in the right direction and new weight loss drugs could be part of the reason why. Study co-author and ABC News contributor @johnbrownstein joins @dianermacedo for more.
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.@LinseyDavis speaks with epidemiologist and ABC News contributor @JohnBrownstein as the medical community reacts to Trump's pick of RFK Jr. as the Health and Human Services Secretary.
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Following the list of 11 adult health systems leading in AI, the @InnovationUCSDH team partnered with @BeckersHR to identify 𝟔 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐈 in 2024! Many thanks to @LauraMiller19 - learn more ⤵️ https://t.co/GSK2lCavVL
Thrilled to team up with @BeckersHR to highlight U.S. health systems pioneering real-world, outcomes-based #AI in #healthcare! What other sites are leading the way? ? Let us know! 👇 Read⤵️ https://t.co/ZFc6jHGs2d
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Excited to hear from @BostonChildrens SVP & Chief Innovation Officer @johnbrownstein at #SAIPH2024 on Thursday! Get a preview of his thoughts on hospitals using #AI to enhance patient outcomes in a fireside chat with Director of AI + Health Gene Tunik ⬇️
ai.northeastern.edu
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Want to hear an unexpectedly interesting conversation about 4 of my recently published papers in healthcare AI? Listen to this short AI-generated podcast! 🎧 Details below (1/6)🧵
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During the #pandemic, strategies like social distancing & mask-wearing were crucial, but monitoring compliance was difficult due to privacy concerns. This study used a privacy-focused approach called the "federated cohort" to analyze intervention adherence patterns, showing
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What's real and what's hype in precision health? Join leaders w/ real-world expertise from bench to bedside including: @larrybrilliant, @geli_patricia, @jhalamka, @marinkazitnik, @johnbrownstein, & @RasuShrestha @Northeastern to find out! Register here:
ai.northeastern.edu
https://ai.northeastern.edu/event/the-state-of-ai-in-precision-health#speakers
What are the biggest challenges and opportunities in #AI, #health, #drugdiscovery, #medicine and #lifesciences? Read @NUGlobalNews to see how we'll explore these issues in October, with insights from @svscarpino, Gene Tunik, @RaiWinslow, and @usamaf ⬇️
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First human case of avian influenza A (H5) in Missouri, detected by @HealthyLivingMo and confirmed by @CDCgov. Patient, with underlying conditions, has recovered and been discharged. No animal exposure is concerning. https://t.co/UDDSSzsiNd
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1/ We’re live with data on >20k Mpox cases! Data are updated every 24 hours and have been validated by our curators through 8/25. Follow us for updates as the situation unfolds. https://t.co/IwBevrj42y
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Tomorrow we’ll be live @globaldothealth with up-to-date data on >20k Mpox cases. Good data saves lives!
We’ve activated in support of the recent Mpox declarations by the @AfricaCDC & @WHO and tomorrow are launching a public, real-time data set with >20,000 cases from 15 countries. Stay tuned! @johnbrownstein @svscarpino @MOUGK @OWMorgan @houzhou @george_l @Tuliodna @AalishaSahukhan
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We’ve activated in support of the recent Mpox declarations by the @AfricaCDC & @WHO and tomorrow are launching a public, real-time data set with >20,000 cases from 15 countries. Stay tuned! @johnbrownstein @svscarpino @MOUGK @OWMorgan @houzhou @george_l @Tuliodna @AalishaSahukhan
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The #Mpox in San Fran wastewater is the strain that has been spreading in the US for years. We need to rapidly deploy similar wastewater surveillance globally to better assess the distribution of clades I & II.
BREAKING: Mpox Detected in San Francisco Wastewater San Francisco health officials have reported mpox (formerly monkeypox) detected in the city's wastewater, as shown by the WastewaterSCAN Dashboard.
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WHO declares mpox a public health emergency as a new strain spreads in Africa. @johnbrownstein: "What we're seeing is rapid rising cases ... We're really trying to prevent a global spread like we saw with COVID." MORE: https://t.co/LUfIjep3wH
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