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Nate Apathy

@natea.bsky.social
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Health services and policy research, focused on informatics. Assistant Prof, Health Policy and Management at University of Maryland School of Public Health. Formerly MedStar Health, Penn LDI, IU, Cerner.

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Rebecca Gourevitch @rgourevitch.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Out now: we found increases in postpartum Medicaid coverage, ED visits, and behavioral health diagnoses during the COVID-19 continuous coverage provisions. Grateful for the support from @rwjf.org @academyhealth.bsky.social to partner with @ericaeliason.bsky.social and @maria-steenland.bsky.social
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Genevieve Kanter @profgenkanter.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Consolidation in the EHR market -- where there are 2 dominant vendors -- is creating a big risk of a catastrophic cybersecurity event. @ajh.bsky.social, @natea.bsky.social, and I ponder the possibility of a "single-point-of-failure" risk in the EHR market in this Health Affairs Scholar commentary
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Electronic health record market consolidation and implications for cybersecurity
Abstract. Over the past decade, the electronic health record (EHR) market has become increasingly consolidated, with the majority of care delivery organiza
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A Jay Holmgren @ajh.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Obviously a strange time, but thrilled to receive my first R01 from NLM. Excited to combine some of my favorite things (instrumental variables and EHR metadata) to develop context-specific causal estimates of the value of viewing outside data delivered via HIE w/ MPI @natea.bsky.social
NLM R01 Notice of Award
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Aaron Schwartz @aschwartz.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Eric Roberts and @joefigs.bsky.social led a groundbreaking new study on Medicaid and Medicare, out today in NEJM. I’m lucky to have been a part of it. Medicare saves lives. But is it enough to save lives of the most vulnerable Americans? The study suggests no; Medicaid still matters. (1/11)
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Loss of Subsidized Drug Coverage and Mortality among Medicare Beneficiaries | NEJM
A total of 14 million Medicare beneficiaries receive the Low-Income Subsidy (LIS), which reduces cost sharing in Medicare Part D. Losing the LIS may impede medication access and affect mortality. U...
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Prof Keith Marzilli Ericson @profericson.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🚨 Rethinking Moral Hazard: Moral hazard in health insurance—the increased spending that comes when you get insured—is usually seen as wasteful due to insurance’s price distortion. This paper challenges that view.
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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
A friend (and disgruntled former HHS staffer) just summed up the situation at HHS as best as I've heard so far: "They are just systematically committed to ruining anyone’s ability to understand anything."
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Aaron Schwartz @aschwartz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Dr. Feyman is a talented health policy researcher with an impressive track record. I'm confident whatever institution hires him next will be better for it. scholar.google.com/citations?us...
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Yevgeniy Feyman
‪Boston University School of Public Health, Manhattan Institute‬ - ‪‪Cited by 705‬‬ - ‪Health economics‬ - ‪health policy‬ - ‪market design‬ - ‪competition‬
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Michael L. Barnett @mlbarnett.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
RFK is planning to merge ASPE and AHRQ into one "Office of Strategy" at HHS. Unlikely to be good news for AHRQ's research mission. from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Kevin Griffith @assumenormality.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🚨I've posted BRFSS data in SAS, R, and Stata formats for 1987-2023 here on this Mendeley Data Repository Free to use without restriction! data.mendeley.com/datasets/shs...
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Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
These BRFSS datasets were downloaded prior to them being taken offline on January 31st, 2025. Special thanks to James Bailey & Doug Livingston who made earlier years of BRFSS data available! Data 20...
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Nate Apathy @natea.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
NIH grant submission coming up? cool, same! Less great: eRA Commons... appears to be inaccessible
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UCSF DoC-IT @ucsfdocit.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
In a new Health Affairs publication, UCSF researchers and colleagues identify how #AI and predictive models are used and evaluated for accuracy and bias. Read more about their findings: www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Nate Apathy @natea.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
going to use my first post here for an update... I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined the University of Maryland School of Public Health as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy & Management! Really excited to join this stellar faculty! new email is nca at umd dot edu.
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John Graves @johngraves.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Hi Folks, @VUHealthPol is hiring! Open rank tenure line search to come work with a terrific group of 20 primary and 20 secondary faculty, super smart MPH and PhD students! Apply here by December 15: apply.interfolio.com/135635
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