J Emory Parker πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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Pulitzer prize winning editor and news developer. Now: Data Project Manager at @STAT | Past: @postandcourier, @neuro_musc.
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WiFi 6E is pretty impressive

Read STAT's Pulitzer finalist story!

"The nation’s largest health insurance company pressured its medical staff to cut off payments for seriously ill patients in lockstep with a computer algorithm’s calculations, denying rehabilitation care for older and disabled Americans as profits soared"

https://www.statnews.com/2023/11/14/unitedhealth-algorithm-medicare-advantage-investigation/

UnitedHealth pushed employees to follow an algorithm to cut off Medicare patients' rehab care

UnitedHealth executives pressured clinical staff to follow an algorithm to cut off patients’ rehab care, leading to coverage decisions that may violate Medicare regulations.

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Good morning Chicago and Detroit. Re-upping what I wrote recently about what Covid stuff you can repurpose to protect yourself for this bad air. Read for free β†’ https://www.statnews.com/2023/06/07/air-quality-canadian-wildfires-protection/
How the public health lessons of Covid can help Americans protect themselves from wildfire smoke

Here are just a few ways in which the public health lessons of Covid may now help people to minimize health risks from air pollution.

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I took a look at some of the data behind how abortion access in America has changed in the past year since the repeal of Roe v. Wade https://www.statnews.com/2023/06/24/abortion-roe-v-wade-anniversary/
How abortion access changed in the first year after Roe v. Wade, in 8 charts

How abortion access changed in the first year after Roe v. Wade, in 8 charts.

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why are the maps in the apple weather app so bad? they’re always broken like this
this is what remote-workers will look like by 2100