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Executive Director @ariadnelabs. Primary Care Physician @BrighamWomens and @harvardmed. Views my own.

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Joined September 2011
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A survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council finds a host of interrelated challenges to primary care delivery, led by payment structure, staffing shortages, and organizational structure and management: nej.md/3JLjTI3 @Asaf_Bitton @AriadneLabs @RouleauK @UnityHealthTO
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There are very few people who don’t see the value #PrimaryCare brings to health care delivery. Why, then, is primary care in peril? @Asaf_Bitton and @RouleauK analyze a recent @nejmcatalyst survey finding a host of interrelated challenges to primary care delivery.
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"Primary Care Is Essential and Under Siege" Insights Council Report with @Asaf_Bitton @AriadneLabs @BrighamWomens and @RouleauK @UnityHealthTO @WHO nej.md/3JLjTI3
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"Primary Care Is Essential and Under Siege" Insights Council Report with @Asaf_Bitton @AriadneLabs @BrighamWomens and @RouleauK @UnityHealthTO @WHO nej.md/3JLjTI3
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"How can care be re-infused with dignity? Innovation isn't a new technology or a new gizmo. It's a new way of doing things that is of value to those served. It's defined by action & intention." Excellent opening to our #seriousillness care summit from @sidowney & @Asaf_Bitton!
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One of the things that makes Ariadne Labs special is our breadth of disciplines. Today, we're all coming together to watch the #SeriousIllness care #equity summit and asking how it can inform our work across the Lab.
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Great work below:
When an intervention faces failures in implementation, doesn't achieve its goals, or slips in use over time, re-implementation might be necessary – but what is it? 🆕 in @ImplementSci: "Defining re-implementation" implementationsciencecomms.b…
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Our virtual summit, "Driving #Equity in #SeriousIllness Communication and Care" is 2⃣ weeks away! Have you registered yet? Register and check out our agenda full of important conversations with incredible speakers ➡️cmecatalog.hms.harvard.edu/s…
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We analyzed 30k responses from primary care clinicians during COVID, w/ alarming results: inability to meet people’s needs & keep clinics functional Primary care is a social good requiring sustained, proactive support You don’t wait until the bridge collapses to start fixing it
Primary care clinicians came under great pressure during the Covid-19 pandemic, exacerbating a long-standing crisis in U.S. primary care. In March 2020, @GreenCenterOrg launched a survey series
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#PrimaryHealthCare is the cornerstone of strong health systems. Since COVID-19, the need for investment in #PHC has become even more clear. Join @KellySaldanaHSS, @KimberlyEGreen, @Asaf_Bitton, and @Shams_Syed for a discussion of how we can center PHC in health systems.
Primary health care (PHC) can meet 90% of a person's lifetime health needs. How can we strengthen health systems & incentivize ongoing PHC investment? Join our webinar w/ leading voices from @PATHtweets, @AriadneLabs and @WHO’s Special Programme on PHC: abt.associates/456wGOd
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The moment a person becomes acutely ill, the US medical system is eager and equipped to provide heroic care. Meanwhile, in the days, months, and years leading up to the crisis, care is contingent. Why? @Asaf_Bitton on turning our sick-care systems into health systems.
.@Asaf_Bitton says, “We have a wonderful sick-care system that takes care of very sick people, but a very inadequate health-care system.” #PostLive
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.@Asaf_Bitton tells @FrancesSSellers: “We know that investments in those primary care systems routinely result in both improved outcomes and improved equity… All other parts of the health care system, you can invest in them, but they will not routinely improve equity."
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Don’t miss this! I’ll be talking with @Asaf_Bitton and @HarvardChanDean about why the world’s richest country is experiencing a drop in life expectancy. Join us @postlive on Monday! #ExplainingAmerica #publichealth @AriadneLabs
Why is life expectancy declining in the United States? @Asaf_Bitton joins @HarvardChanDean and @FrancesSSellers on @PostLive to discuss what's driving the decline and what can be done about it. Monday, 4/10 at 11:30am EDT: bittonwilliamsapril2023.spla…
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Why is life expectancy declining in the United States? @Asaf_Bitton joins @HarvardChanDean and @FrancesSSellers on @PostLive to discuss what's driving the decline and what can be done about it. Monday, 4/10 at 11:30am EDT: bittonwilliamsapril2023.spla…
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When we said we would finish strong, we meant it. Check out 3⃣ NEW parting resources from PHCPI: 👉2nd Gen. Vital Signs Profile (BETA): rb.gy/ut3b 👉Reference guide of PHCPI tools: rb.gy/svpq 👉Stories of four PHC champions: rb.gy/scqe
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A strong CDC is the first line of defense against public health threats. However, today's CDC faces operational challenges and declining public trust. @Asaf_Bitton served on a bipartisan @CSISHealth working group that developed actionable steps for building a stronger CDC.
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Really honored to tell this story on @NBCNightlyNews, especially during Black History Month. 👇🏾
Historically, Black patients have had to wait longer for kidney transplants than other races, in part because of an outdated test that overestimated their kidney function. Now, a new national rule will remove the test in determining who gets a transplant. @Yamiche reports.
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The @WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and the @ErasSociety guidelines come together.🔥 #ERAS teams can leverage 2 tools in 1 to improve care in critical perioperative communication moments ja.ma/3jLRzLO via @JAMANetworkOpen part of @JAMANetwork
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“This pathogen hasn’t often infected humans, but when it has, 56% of those known to have contracted it have died. Its inability to spread easily, if at all, from one person to another has kept it from causing a pandemic. But things are changing.” nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opini…
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Even a small elevation of risk for a major pandemic like H5N1 requires our attention. We have the tools to prevent another disaster. We (should) know the risk. Can we muster the political will and relatively modest resources to act?
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