Health Policy Twitterati 2013

It was nearly a year ago when I compiled the list of the . The methodology was elegantly simple, look back several months and count up the number of times I (@PolicyRx) re-tweeted a user’s comments or links. I recently repeated this task and bring you the Health Policy Twitterati list with a few notable additions (the crew at Project Millennial) and some repeat offenders (from the Incidental Economist). If you care about policy, you should follow their blogs; if you use Twitter, add these handles to your following:

The Incidental Economist blog (@IncidentalEcon) is fairly similar to what we write here. They are self-described as: “a blog (mostly) about the U.S. health care system and its organization, how it works, how it fails us, and what to do about it. All blog authors have professional expertise in an area relevant to the health care system. We are researchers and professors in health economics, law, or health services.” The focus is on analyzing data and health services research. The major writers, economist Austin Frakt (@afrakt) and pediatrician Aaron Carroll (@aaroncarroll), are worth following as well.

A relative newcomer, Project Millennial (@ProjMillennial) ” [tries] to unravel the mysteries of American healthcare via blog post.” The site is run by young whippersnappers, but considering most of my patients think I’m too young to be a doctor, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it is extraordinarily fulfilling to see a new generation of policy thought leaders forming. Adrianna McIntyre (@onceuponA) leads this band while Karan Chhabra  (@krchhabra) provides the clinical clout necessary to ground this group to the realities of actual patient care.

Next there are a few journalists worth reading on a daily basis. My favorite, from the Washington Post’s WonkBlog is Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff). A rare conservative viewpoint can be found from Forbes’ Avik Roy (@avik). And a new addition to this list is the Advisory Board Company’s managing editor Dan Diamond (@ddiamond).

Lastly, The Wing of Zock (@wingofzock) – an “online community…for faculty, residents, students, and executives at medical schools and teaching hospitals” – provides great insights into the intersection of policy and medical education.

I encourage you to check out these thinkers and writers. Don’t want to follow them separately? Follow this single list and you will get all of their tweets.