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Juan Chaparro
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Physician #Informaticist and Pediatric #InfectiousDiseases Specialist at @NationwideKids Views expressed here are my own. #informatics #ClinicalDecisionSupport #medicalinformatics #alertfatigue #design @pediatric-cds
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Up next at #AMIA2025 is
Revenue vs. Cost Center: How Clinical Informaticists Can Boost Their Organizations' Bottom Line — a PINA-sponsored panel highlighting how CDS, analytics, training, & AI can drive financial + clinical impact.
November 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
www.nytimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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ameracadpeds.bsky.social
The American Academy of Pediatrics is proud to stand with leading public health organizations by taking legal action to protect the integrity of our immunization system to defend science, evidence-based medicine, and the policies that keep children safe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DODV...
Protecting Kids: Why Pediatricians Are Suing the Government | AAP
YouTube video by American Academy of Pediatrics
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July 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Never been prouder to be an #AAP member!
#VaccinesWork
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Jul 8
AAP and other leading health organizations allege that the health secretary violated federal law when he took the COVID vaccine off the list of recommended shots for pregnant women and healthy children.
RFK Jr.'s vaccine policy sparks a lawsuit from the American Academy of Pediatrics
AAP and other leading health organizations allege that the health secretary violated federal law when he took the COVID vaccine off the list of recommended shots for pregnant women and healthy children.
n.pr
July 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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wbur.org
The lawsuit alleges that Kennedy and other political appointees at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have flouted federal procedures and systematically attempted to mislead the public.
Doctors and public health organizations sue RFK Jr. in Boston court over vaccine policy changes
The lawsuit alleges that Kennedy and other political appointees at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have flouted federal procedures and systematically attempted to mislead the public.
www.wbur.org
July 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Are you ready with your Clinical Informatics Fellowships applications? Remember, we are on a July cycle, which means that you can begin submitting to  programs on July 2nd at 9 a.m. ET. Here's a helpful guide for you.
www.acifellows.org/future-fellows

#clinicalinformatics #clinformatics
Prospective Applicants | ACIF: AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows
AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows
www.acifellows.org
June 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
jchaparromd.bsky.social
Unbelievable. #RFK is setting the state of American medical sciences back DECADES.
Thanks, Dr. Kressly, for calling this nonsense out.
#VaccinesWork
AAP Statement on Changes to Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices | AAP
“The American Academy of Pediatrics is deeply troubled and alarmed by Secretary Kennedy’s mass firing of all 17 experts on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. This unprecedented action, ...
www.aap.org
June 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
jchaparromd.bsky.social
Docs get tons of #PatientPortal messages, some more urgent than others.
Can #LLMs with Retrieval-Augmented Generation be used to identify emergencies from these messages?
@allisonbmccoy.phd
academic.oup.com/jamia/advanc...
Detecting emergencies in patient portal messages using large language models and knowledge graph-based retrieval-augmented generation
AbstractObjectives. This study aims to develop and evaluate an approach using large language models (LLMs) and a knowledge graph to triage patient messages
academic.oup.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.

www.ft.com/content/8459...
80+% of both Democrats and Republicans believe America would be better off if more Americans worked in manufacturing, but < 30% say that about themselves.
April 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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yalesph.bsky.social
We'll leave you with this:

7/7
We’ll leave you with this: On what looks like a piece of paper reads, Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.“I feel all sleepy,” she said.In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.Next to the paper reads, In 1988, author Roald Dahl wrote a letter to parents begging them not to deny their children vaccinations. His daughter died in 1962, a year before the measles vaccine. His words, excerpted at left, still resonate. Source: TIME Yale School of Public Health
February 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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476 of these measles cases are linked to a large regional outbreak in the Southwest. Experts warn that this number may be a severe undercount.

2/11
Southwest measles outbreak as of March 30, 2025 Map shows four states - New Mexico: 44 cases, 2 hospitalizations, 1 death. Kansas: 23 cases. Oklahoma: 9 cases. Texas: 400 cases, 41 hospitalizations, 1 death. SOURCES: CORI, state health departments, news outlets, YALE ESF-8 Virtual Medical Operation Center
April 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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More Measles

Maryland reports a new case linked to international travel—not connected to the Texas/New Mexico outbreak.

Potential exposures:
- Dulles International Airport (arrivals baggage claim)
- Johns Hopkins Howard County Pediatric ER

health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pag...
March 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
jchaparromd.bsky.social
#delabel #savepenicillins
Removing allergy labels is hard! We need to work on preventing allergy labels from ever making it to the chart!
March 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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There's always a few withdrawn presentations at conferences, but seeing 3 withdrawals in a session on diversity is sad. I wonder how many CDC & NIH colleagues couldn't come? #CROI2025
March 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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🧪 AI is exposing errors in research papers, fast.

Tools like the Black Spatula Project and YesNoError use AI to catch mistakes in calculations, methodology, and references before they spread.
🩺💻 #MLSky #AcademicSky
AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement
Study that hyped the toxicity of black plastic utensils inspires projects that use large language models to check papers.
www.nature.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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How much would it take to entice you to review a journal article? $50? $100? $250? $1000?
#medsky
medicineminute.substack.com/p/you-dont-h...
You Don't Have to Review for Free?
The bribes aren't emphasized nearly enough here.
medicineminute.substack.com
March 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
jchaparromd.bsky.social
Nice to see publications of implemented AI/ML #CDSS models, but this one is very light on the details. Particularly Table 2. 🤔 #informatics
The Construction and Application of a Clinical Decision Support System for Cardiovascular Diseases: Multimodal Data-Driven Development and Validation Study
Background: Due to the acceleration of the aging population and the prevalence of unhealthy lifestyles, the incidence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in China continues to grow. However, due to uneve...
medinform.jmir.org
March 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
jchaparromd.bsky.social
A reminder that even non-Avian #influenza can kill you (or your child)! 47 children have lost their lives so far this season to influenza.
#getVaccinated #FightFlu #flu #VaccinesWork
CDC reports 47 children have died of flu during the 2024-2025 season. 44.1% of US children have been vaccinated for the flu, down from 48.8% last year.
February 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Dr. Neil Stone- Villain of the day Senator Bill Cassidy A doctor Used to work on Hepatitis B vaccination Voted to confirm an anti vaccine conspiracy theororist for HHS head He knows better Shameful
February 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
February 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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January 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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In 2023 RFK Jr said “their are much better candidates than HIV for what causes AIDS”, e.g. pointing instead to amyl nitrate poppers popular in the gay club scene in the 1980s.

Just imagine how such abject misinformation hurts the families below and the 40M people living with AIDS across the globe.
aweiss.bsky.social Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · Dec 27
After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers.

Science works, y'all.

www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
Closure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why.
Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades.
www.startribune.com
December 28, 2024 at 6:02 AM
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Seeing a TON of kids being admitted with RSV, COVID and Influenza over the holidays. A bit frustrating because we have effective immunizations for all three!!
#Nirsevimab #FluVaccine #COVIDVaccine #PedsID #IDSky
a little girl is sitting on a couch with her eyes closed and making a funny face .
Alt: a little girl is sitting on a couch with her eyes closed and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
December 28, 2024 at 1:51 PM
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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

Arthur C. Clarke
December 21, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
I bet the one thing all the experts agree on is that neither of these clowns should be remotely involved in matters of public health
December 22, 2024 at 2:01 AM