Check out our protocol we've been developing with NSW Health Pathology and Sydney Local Health District to implement a shared-care model to support the diagnoses of #FamilialHypercholesterolaemia in #PrimaryCare Karen Birkenhead Andrew Partington Charlotte Hespe AM Catherine Spinks 👇

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It’s not perfect, but here’s why our health system is one of the best smh.com.au/business/the-e…

A few observations on last night's 'Pain Factory' #4Corners

🧵focusing here on the safety, quality, appropriateness side of it - not the fraudulent billing ... not to diminish the latter but it isn't my area

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The late great Kahneman reflects on 50 yrs of decision analysis & why it's often shunned by executive decision-makers, in preference for biased intuition. He predicts that distributed AI will upend this, with decisions open to a new level of scrutiny. econ.st/3vxz2Zm

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Vale Jack Wennberg - who first got me thinking about preference-sensitive vs. supply-sensitive practices. One of the true pioneers of value in health care.
#unwarrantedvariation

If I were an academic publisher, I would fine-tune a model liek Claude 3 for peer review purposes.

A manuscript comes in, I get it reviewed by my custom chatbot and get an initial sense of what to do with it.

If the manuscript has merit, I will ask an expert to review it.

When even the former US surgeon general gets over charged for health care ($4.8K for dehydration), God help the rest of us common folks.

“We urge the Gov. to move forward with the actions identified in relation to research & innovation, including the need for a strategic review of national research funding, as a priority.” Our Pres Louise Baur welcomes the Universities Accord Final Report aahms.org/news/aahms-wel…

'R&D expenditure overall is low for an advanced economy and our rankings on innovation indices are poor ... growth cannot be achieved without a significant increase in Australia’s expenditure on R&D as a proportion of GDP' education.gov.au/australian-uni…

Observational analyses shouldn't require power calculation - 'Ethical arguments for power calculations before conducting a randomized trial which place individuals at risk are not transferable to observational analyses of existing databases' Miguel Hernán jclinepi.com/article/S0895-…

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I'm often asked '... how can your economic evaluations be better incorporated within broader evaluation practices?', but it's the wrong question.

Instead, ask - how does your partial evaluation inform a full evaluation?

Some thoughts on what next for Medicare on its 40th birthday lens.monash.edu/2024/01/29/138… Stephen Duckett Croakey News Norman Swan Charles Maskell-Knight Andrew Leigh Monash CHE Health System Sustainability Partnership Centre Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia ACOSS

Local Level Economic Evaluation: What is it? What is its value? Is it sustainable?
We reflect on our experience with hospital networks in AUS & flag how simple decision analyses can (should) inform service planning & commissioning link.springer.com/article/10.100…
FlindersHMRI Jon Karnon

To adopt interventions 'off the shelf', published evidence needs to be translated. Eliciting expectations from local stakeholders is key to this. Southern Adelaide Local Health Network FlindersHMRI Jon Karnon journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…

This is your periodic reminder that you should have completed a PhD in Finland.

There the graduation regalia for PhDs includes a top hat and a sword.

Yes! This ⬇️. I am always facilitating problem framing with health services to prevent them jumping in too soon. Olivia Fisher

Just check out that definition of value & opportunity costs 😍 Michael E. Porter's often-cited VBHC formula is wrong in most non-US (& US) settings. Muir Gray's concepts aren't a bad runner-up. However, the cited health economics 'Blue Book' is the most relevant for AUS. ♥️ it.