@bewestisdoing
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Had a fun Diwali get together yesterday and had to take a small correction dose. I LOVE how you can #bolus from the Apple Watch with DIY Loop. Easy and so cool! Love this tech! Ignore my friends 😂♥️
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Mark@Merkles8830 Jul 2024
5 reasons why closed loop for diabetes is life changing 🧵
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An indirect but consequential aspect of throwing AI at healthcare: it permits making explicit considerations in decisions previously implicit and opaque. For example: "Why did you bill more for patient A compared to patient B?" The answers can inform policy (and/or motivate some LLM builders to steer/align them to obfuscating explanations).
Morgan Cheatham, MD
@morgancheatham29 Jul 2024
one conversation we should be having more, especially in healthcare: is this an AI problem or a policy problem? a big challenge in American healthcare stems from the reality that our healthcare strategy changes with every administration throwing AI at problems that are well-addressed by policy innovation (e.g., AI for payer-provider RCM war) feels like a gross misallocation of resources solution sets are rarely zero sum – in truth, most problems will require policy, tech, and human interventions, but it's worth asking ourselves whether AI is the best solve when we have a multitude of options
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Huang Yongyu (Chinese, b. 1924) - Birds
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Riona Buthello art.
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Sometimes I try to complain to leadership and they tell me:
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NZ announces free CGM and pumps for all NZers with T1d. Huge moment for our small nation. Limited choice, but we’ll take it! AID for all!
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fda.gov/news-events/press-an… Dexcom CGM now available OTC! We are still only barely scratching the surface of the value of these devices to humanity.

FDA Clears First Over-the-Counter Continuous Glucose Monitor

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared for marketing the first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor.

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San Francisco! I'll be talking about #RebelHealth on Thurs. 3/14 at 6:30pm. Register for your spot: eventbrite.com/e/cps-160-sus…
CPS Lecture #160: Susannah Fox on Rebel Health. Thursday, March 14 at 6:30pm in San Francisco

ALT CPS Lecture #160: Susannah Fox on Rebel Health. Thursday, March 14 at 6:30pm in San Francisco

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Saoud Abdallah (born 1976) Woman and Cat (2020). #Caturday
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At the edge of his woodland, Badger paused to watch the evening light as it danced with the trees. Recently he’d found himself searching for a new way of viewing the world, thinking of a forgotten way of being. Whatever he was looking for, moments like this brought him closer.
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🎉📈 New data from @pewinternet! 📈🎉
Monica Anderson@MonicaRAnders31 Jan 2024
Big release day for @pewinternet - we have two new reports - one on social media, the other on home broadband and mobile technology. These data anchor our work on the "Big 3" Tech Revolutions: Internet, Mobile & Social pewrsr.ch/49i9IFc
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This is a big deal. People with chronic disease(s) pay a huge time “tax” for routine monitoring/care. Adding 2 hours every 3 months for *one* of my autoimmune conditions (& unnecessarily so) was making me really frustrated, which is why this made me so jazzed today.
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Let's bring back Web Rings
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Wild Flowers and Thistles in a Vase, 1890 botfrens.com/collections/46/…
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“Waking up to a blanket of snow is like a morning lullaby, a soft dreamlike state that is magical.” ― Nancy Hatch Woodward Michael Fratrich (American, b.1968) oil on linen painting
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There is a new article on exocrine/endocrine aspects of type 1 diabetes from @BBruggMD that just came out that really highlights this, too: "Clinically, individuals with T1D should be evaluated for EPI when they present with concerning [GI] symptoms" bit.ly/41271V2
Dana M. Lewis | #OpenAPS 🤖@danamlewis1 Dec 2023
HCP mentions a relative has T1D and ongoing stomach issues. Me, biting my tongue. HCP: I see you have..what is it...exocrine something? Me: exocrine pancreatic insufficiency. Yes, it's prevalent in PWD. Let me give you some information to give her! xitter.cf/danamlewis/status/1680…
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HCP mentions a relative has T1D and ongoing stomach issues. Me, biting my tongue. HCP: I see you have..what is it...exocrine something? Me: exocrine pancreatic insufficiency. Yes, it's prevalent in PWD. Let me give you some information to give her! xitter.cf/danamlewis/status/1680…
Dana M. Lewis | #OpenAPS 🤖@danamlewis15 Jul 2023
Friends w/diabetes: My goal is to have EPI rattling around in the back of your brain so that if one day you realize you have some GI symptoms, you and/or your endo or other doctors (#GITwitter) will think to screen for EPI alongside celiac. Why? Because: bit.ly/46OpN4J
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