Ken Mandl
@mandl
Dir, Computational Health Informatics Program @Bos_CHIP | Harvard Med Prof & MD | Nat Acad Med Leadership Council & Co-Chair Digital Health Action Collab #AI
It took a village. New HHS rule ensures an app written once will run anywhere in the healthcare system. & patients can access a computable copy of their medical record. This journey began > a decade ago when @zakkohane and I proposed a health care API in the @NEJM @SMARTHealthIT

Perspective by Kenneth D. Mandl, MD, MPH (@mandl): Unseen Commercial Forces Could Undermine Artificial Intelligence Decision Support nejm.ai/4hyjmYB #AIinMedicine
My Perspective in @NEJM_AI. AI could distort clinical decision-making in ways that prioritize profit over patient care. Oversight & regulation must go beyond performance metrics alone to address hidden commercial forces that could shape decision support. ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
If #AI is General Purpose Technology (the other GPT 🙂), akin to steam power, electricity and information technology, it’s poised to reshape the workforce in profound ways @LHSummers @nberpubs nber.org/system/files/w…
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🚨 Faculty Opportunity at Harvard Medical School 🚨 @Bos_CHIP at Boston Children’s Hospital is hiring research faculty to advance AI & computational approaches in healthcare. 🗓️ Apply by Jan 13, 2025 🌐 chip.org/employment/ins…
🚨 No Embargo (was 12 months) This is a big deal change to NIH’s Public Access Policy. Starting 12/31/2025, all NIH-funded research must be freely available on PubMed Central upon publication. Enhancing transparency & public access to taxpayer-funded research. 🌐📚 #OpenAccess
🚨 Faculty Opportunity at Harvard Medical School 🚨 @Bos_CHIP at Boston Children’s Hospital is hiring research faculty to advance AI & computational approaches in healthcare. 🗓️ Apply by Jan 13, 2025 🌐 chip.org/employment/ins…
🚨 Faculty Opportunity at Harvard Medical School 🚨 @Bos_CHIP at Boston Children’s Hospital is hiring research faculty to advance AI & computational approaches in healthcare. 🗓️ Apply by Jan 13, 2025 🌐 chip.org/employment/ins…
🔬 Harvard Medical School Postdoc in AI & Computational Health Join CHIP at Boston Children’s Hospital to advance healthcare with multimodal real-world data 🌟 Help shape the future of medicine. Apply now: chip.org/training/nih-f…
Here's how today's HTI-2 Final Rule stacks up against @SMARTHealthIT comments (thanks Gemini Experimental!) --- Here's a breakdown, organized by the topics you raised in your comments: 1. FHIR Bulk Data Enhancements Export Performance Parity: Status: NOT ADDRESSED in this…
Come join us tomorrow, Thursday at 4pm to hear the wonderful @chrissyfarr
Excited to join my friend @mandl to chat with the amazing crew at Boston Children's about *all the things.* I'm an open book as you all know. If you want to join us, Zoom link here: bostonchildrens.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Excited to join my friend @mandl to chat with the amazing crew at Boston Children's about *all the things.* I'm an open book as you all know. If you want to join us, Zoom link here: bostonchildrens.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
EHI Export insight: over 100 individual users (i.e., provider org staff) contributed to some aspect of my EHI in the past 6 years of ambulatory care. This diagram shows only users & tasks mentioned at least 10 times. (Task labels generated by GPT-4, based on Epic's EHI schema.)
Join us @bos_chip on Monday for a conversation with one of healthcares most storied CEOs. Register here bostonchildrens.zoom.us/webinar/regist….
A message from Quinn Sutherland aka @ReelQuinn, who is a treasure: “Hi everyone. Due to some setbacks in my health I’ve been struggling to make ends meet. If you can help out in any way, I’d appreciate it. Thank you!” gofundme.com/f/everything-g…
Chapter11andMe
within months you will be able to buy genomics data from 14 million americans for +/- $200m? the inevitable fire sale of this mess to an overseas PE firm is going to be a national security matter on the scale of which we haven't seen in healthcare in years