Category: Health
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Mind Readings: What Smoking Tells Us About Air Quality
Key points: Cigarette smoking is allowed in many indoor spaces in Serbia, which results in poor air quality. Just a few smokers in an enclosed space can make the air quality unbearable for everyone. Poor air quality is a problem not just for COVID, but for other respiratory diseases as well. Masks are an effective…
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You Ask, I Answer: Wearing a Mask When No One Else Does?
In this episode, I answer the basic question of whether there’s a benefit to wearing a mask when no one else is. The short answer is yes. Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here: Download the MP3 audio here. Machine-Generated Transcript What follows is an AI-generated transcript. The transcript…
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2020 Rewind: AI Applications in Healthcare Marketing
Welcome to 2020 Rewind! In this series, we’re taking a look at the year that was and the wonderful shows and podcasts that had me on as a guest this past year. A fair amount of the time, I’d rather read than listen, but podcasts, live streams, webinars, and videos were how we made media…
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You Ask, I Answer: What’s Most Exciting About the Future of Health?
Funts asks, “What’s got you most excited about the future of health and AI?” There are three times to look at. Present-day: acceleration, accuracy, and automation reduce administrative tasks so payers, providers, and patients can spend more time on what matters most Near-term future: deep learning and technologies like computational chemistry, unsupervised image classification, and…
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The Future of Healthcare IT Marketing
Healthcare IT marketing is one of the hottest, fastest growing industries in the world as digital health, precision medicine, and artificial intelligence meet traditional healthcare. This week, I’m speaking at the BrandHIT Marketing Summit in Las Vegas, put on by HIMSS, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, about building data-driven customer journeys in healthcare. As…
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Sleep, caffeine, and vacation learnings
One of my peculiar habits I do every 6 months or so is to take a week off of any kind of caffeine. This started a few years ago at the suggestion of Barry Meklir, my muscular therapist, who recommended it in order to give the body’s adrenal glands some time to recharge and reset.…