Reimagining pulmonary rehabilitation with smart technology - UMToday

It is no secret that the federal government has never managed to achieve anything like full compliance with FOIA’s basic obligations to release non-exempt records upon request within twenty business days. Endemic delays, persistent over-withholding, and spates of agency policies that undermine compliance have plagued the history of the statutory right to government information. As it stands today, less than ten percent of requests result in the full release of responsive documents. From the perspective of requesters, FOIA has long been “broken.” But it is not just requesters who register high levels of frustration. As the number of requests increases almost exponentially year over year and the volume of records created and maintained by agencies balloons, the resources agencies are given—both human and technological—perennially fall far short of what is needed. On one side, FOIA offices struggle to communicate with requesters effectively even when communication would be mutually beneficial. And on the other side, those same offices face barriers in securing the cooperation of agency program officials in other units to search for and produce responsive records.

At CHEST 2026, Pourshahid argued for matching patients to center-based, hybrid, or virtual pulmonary rehab based on a structured assessment. Arguing the pro side of a debate at the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) 2026 Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Omid Pourshahid, MD, MPH, FCCP, Medical Director, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Temple University Hospital, said pulmonary rehabilitation should be tailored to each patient’s clinical status and barriers to care rather than delivered through a single center-based model.¹The position builds on a long-standing gap in pulmonary rehabilitation uptake. In a retrospective cohort of 197,376 Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for COPD in 2014, only 2721 (1.5%) initiated pulmonary rehabilitation within 90 days of discharge.² Initiation within the 90-day window was associated with a lower risk of death at 1 year (hazard ratio [HR], 0.63; 95% CI, 0.57-0.69; P <.001).

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