Kevin Wang
@kvnwang
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On a mission to free 2 billion people from physical pain @swordhealth. Married to @amylizhao. Raising a beagle. BJJ enthusiast. I also have a newsletter.
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Joined November 2011
I read a lot of articles each week about health care. A lot of reading! In the hopes of actually internalizing some of them I wanted to write and share some thoughts about it in a newsletter. Sign up if your interested!
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More academic journals need to be doing this.
Introducing NotebookLM for arXiv papers 🚀 Transform dense AI research into an engaging conversation With context across thousands of related papers, it captures motivations, draws connections to SOTA, and explains key insights like a professor who's read the entire field
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I’m excited to share our new @Nature paper 📝, which provides strong evidence that the walkability of our built environment matters a great deal to our physical activity and health. Details in thread.🧵 https://t.co/omO3YcHrvG
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“This monitoring strategy could transform the way individuals are screened and diagnosed and ultimately how care is delivered, especially in a clinically asymptomatic cohort”
Our @NatureMedicine paper on glucose spikes (CGM sensor) and their relationship with physical activity, gut microbiome, genomics, food intake, and sleep via multimodal A.I. Helps identify people with prediabetes who have high risk of progression (cf HbA1c) https://t.co/Bvlz0adO6B
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I thought that this quote was too real for someone who spent weeks building a value stream map at a bricks and mortar health system: “The CEO, after being walked through the map, sat down, put his head on the table, and said, "This is even more fucked up than I imagined." The
Right now, AI adoption in organizations is constrained by the need to figure out how to integrate AI with the complex & often poorly-understood processes inside companies But ChatGPT agent suggests that The Bitter Lesson of AI may come for real work, too.
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What do health care providers themselves take for healthspan + longevity? We all get asked this a lot. MDs, nurses, dietitians, etc: @chrissyfarr and I need you to fill out this quick survey! We will write up the findings in an upcoming article. Friends, please help amplify 🙏🏼
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Good vision of the future by @sensiblemed on AI care visits. Most of this seems ready and feasible, except the CPT codes https://t.co/LgxJOa0Snc
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Seems like a great opportunity for an AI-first digital health solution to drive behavior change in the pre-hypertensive/hypertension population. I'm sure a major challenge with most solutions is just getting people to measure blood pressure regularly from home and sending their
đź«€Breakthrough Alert: First FDA-Approved Cuffless Continuous Blood Pressure Monitor! Hilo (formerly Aktiia) just made history with the first-ever FDA approval for a cuffless, continuous blood pressure (BP) monitoring device. A decade ago, I used a $20,000 version of this tech
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Amazing title for a paper
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Today is a special one: We’ve raised $40M at a $4B valuation, in a round led by General Catalyst, and we're officially launching Mind, our always-on AI mental health solution. Here’s what it means to the future of care 🧵
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I love the obsession by most longevity lab testing services to sell you a supplement stack (of which they likely make a commission) and the lack of any lifestyle modification or engagements.
New study: Randomized trial of ~900 colon cancer patients found ppl in the intervention group had: - "significantly longer disease-free survival" - a 7%-point increase in overall survival after 8 years - dramatic reduction in new primary cancers The drug's name: Exercise.
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If the US were to establish site neutral payments and eliminate facility fees it would save $35-60 BILLION a year. For $60B you could acquire Atlassian, 730 F-35 fighter jets, or build 4 more Hudson River gateway rail tunnels. Medicare would save $127 Billion and Medicare
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Ethan Mollick, the author of Co-intelligence, had a great review on o3, indicating that maybe AGI is already here. But so what? The latest model from OpenAI exhibits a 'jagged frontier: good at some things and bad at the other. As a "normal technology" the key is making sure that
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New models and new thresholds
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Wow, 32% of new cases for dementia can be attributed to hearing loss, yet Medicare doesn't cover hearing aids or fitting services, nor are there any HEDIS measures on regular hearing screenings or addressing hearing loss. Given the major costs associated with dementia ($164
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Every week it seems like I get 2-3 inbound requests about joining Sword. But it’s not for everyone. Part of that is we are all intensely passionate about building the future of care. Recently read Tae Kim’s The Nvidia Way and there are a ton a parallels to Sword, none more than
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Lately the word techno-optimist has had a bad rap but this was one hell of an inspiring way to get me motivated for the week in building the healthcare system of the future from Abundance. Driving the future of AI care is one of the essential ways of ensuring we build a system
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Love this quote from Abundance attributed to Leonardo da Vinci: “Experiments never err, only your expectations do.”
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Really cool case study on how Oschner generated $264MM in VBC revenue. Some takeaways for health systems: 1. You can’t have a foot in each canoe. There was direct leadership vision and commitment to making VBC a success. 2. Carefully choose your contracts before committing to
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Everyone is concerned with the costs of healthcare in the US, but what drives it? According to Joseph Dieleman, in his update to research on personal health spending, 65% of variation in spending is driven by utilization. What does that mean? If you own a healthcare budget,
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This cross-sectional study estimates the amount of cross-county health care spending variation explained by population age, health conditions prevalence, service utilization, and service price and...
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In light of the recent 5.8% bump in MA payments let’s take a look at growth in MA enrollments! Interesting data on the plateauing growth of Medicare advantage plans (7%>3.9%) and for the 1st time in years, traditional Medicare growing by 200k enrollees while YoY MA growth went
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