Monetizing Creative Passions Through Turning Hobbies into Side Hustles
“Find a way to make money doing what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life." This timeless adage holds more truth than ever. While many of us navigate traditional careers to make ends meet, the era of the side hustle has opened up new avenues for turning our hobbies into lucrative income sources. Let's delve into the art of transforming your passions into profitable side hustles that pad your wallet and feed your soul.
Choosing Lucrative Hobbies
Not all side hustles are created equal in terms of profit potential. Here are three examples of hobbies you can leverage to create a steady stream of income:
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Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Szczesny Tags: career featured happiness internet culture productivity tips success hobbies side hustle Source Type: blogs
Smells like AI Spirit
By KIM BELLARD
There are so many exciting developments in artificial intelligence (AI) these days that one almost becomes numb to them. Then along comes something that makes me think, hmm, I didn’t see that coming.
For example, AI can now smell.
Strictly speaking, that’s not quite true, at least not in the way humans and other creatures smell. There’s no olfactory organ, like our nose or a snake’s tongue. What AI has been trained to do is to look at a molecular structure and predict what it would smell like.
If you’re wondering (as I certainly did when I heard AI could smell), AI has also starte...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI Diagnosis diagnosis automation Kim Bellard Smell Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – September 2, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Improving Security When Lives Are on the Line. John Lynn spoke to John Wilson and Scott Pross at SolarWinds about the importance of proactive security in healthcare. That means everything from configuring new security features right away to closing the security gaps that appear when disparate clinical systems are integrated. Read more…
How Healthca...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Security When Lives are on the Line
Computer vulnerabilities, threats, and security practices are similar in every industry. But health care presents particular challenges, discussed in this video with John Wilson, Director of Sales, SLED and Healthcare at SolarWinds and Scott Pross, Vice President of Technology, Monalytic, a SolarWinds company. Wilson and Pross make up part of the new dedicated team that SolarWinds has put together for healthcare.
Several factors make health care challenging. Patient data is particularly sensitive and highly regulated, leading Pross to say “We treat our health care customers the way we treat our DoD customers”...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Security and Privacy Healthcare Cloud Healthcare Cloud Security Healthcare Cybersecurity Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare Security Source Type: blogs
The Lonely Epidemic: Social Isolation and Technology
Alarming effects have been found from recent digital technologies on social connections and mental health. The Surgeon General issued a highly publicized advisory on loneliness and another on youth, both replete with evidence of the harm done by social media and the internet generally. But can digital technology also improve social connections?
While the harm done by digital media to many people has been well demonstrated, there are also people who thrive on digital connections, particularly people from marginalized groups who have trouble finding each other in physical settings). The Surgeon General advisory on youth poin...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 29, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Clinical Health IT Company LTPAC Caretakers Catalaize Dor Skuler Healthcare Isolation Healthcare Loneliness Healthcare Social Media Intuition Robotics mental health Sara Shanti Sheppard Mullin social isolation UCLA UCLA Lonel Source Type: blogs
A Potential Alternative for Regulating Internet-Based Platform Services
The use of internet-based platform services like Amazon, DoorDash, and Uber Eats is increasing and can be helpful. But the companies that offer these services may be engaging in predatory practices that can harm users and local businesses. Some form of centralized policy action may help; local governments could play a more-active role. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - August 29, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Swaptik Chowdhury Source Type: blogs
20th Birthday Classic: “Healthcare” vs. “Health Care”: The Definitive Word(s)
This is the last of the classics that THCB will run to celebrate our 20th birthday. And we are finally tackling the most important of questions. Is what we call this thing one word or two? Back in 2012 Michael Millenson had the definitive answer–Matthew Holt
By MICHAEL L. MILLENSON
A recent contributor to this blog wondered about the correctness of “health care” versus “healthcare.” I’d like to answer that question by channeling my inner William Safire (the late, great New York Times language maven). If you’ll stick with me, I’ll also disclose why the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Serv...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy health care Healthcare Michael Millenson Source Type: blogs
Microsoft CEO Sees Generative AI as Transformative as Relational Databases
At Epic’s 2023 User Group Meeting (#epicugm), Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Sumit Rana, Senior Vice President at Epic sat down for a one-on-one conversation about generative AI. Their conversation was fascinating on two levels. First, it was surprising that they did not speak to the deeper partnership between the two companies that was announced in the hours ahead of their time on stage. Second, was the blink-and-you-missed-it difference between how the two men view generative AI.
Deeper Partnership Between Epic and Microsoft
Early on Tuesday morning an announcement was made about the expanded collaboration between...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Azure ChatGPT Epic Epic UGM Generative AI Healthcare AI Judy Faulkner Microsoft Nuance DAX Satya Nadella Sumit Rana Source Type: blogs
The Next Pandemic May Be an AI one
By KIM BELLARD
Since the early days of the pandemic, conspiracy theorists have charged that COVID was a manufactured bioweapon, either deliberately leaked or the result of an inadvertent lab leak. There’s been no evidence to support these speculations, but, alas, that is not to say that such bioweapons aren’t truly an existential threat. And artificial intelligence (AI) may make the threat even worse.
Last week the Department of Defense issued its first ever Biodefense Posture Review. It “recognizes that expanding biological threats, enabled by advances in life sciences and biotechnology, are among the ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy AI Bioterrorism ChatGPT COVID Department of Defense Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – August 20, 2023 – Healthcare orgs only use 57% of their data to drive decision-making, digital health is well represented on the Inc. 5000 list, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News
The annual Inc. 5000 list is live. Digital health companies on the list include AngelEye Health, Authenticx, DAS Health, FarmboxRX, ixlayer, Mytonomy, Reveleer, TigerConnect, TimelyCare, Valenz Health, Veda, and Vytalize He...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT 1upHealth 4medica Accelecom AliveCor Anahi Santiago AngelEye Health Authenticx AVIA Azalea Health Boston Children's Hospital C3HIE Center for Virtual Care Value and Equity Cerner Cerner CommunityWorks Christiana Source Type: blogs
Technology-Facilitated Abuse and the Internet of Things (IoT): The Implication of Smart, Internet-Connected Devices on Domestic Violence and Abuse
Leonie Tanczer (University College London), Technology-Facilitated Abuse and the Internet of Things (IoT): The Implication of Smart, Internet-Connected Devices on Domestic Violence and Abuse (2023): The so-called ‘internet of things’ or ‘IoT’ is an umbrella term for various emerging technologies... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 19, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
THCB 20th Birthday Classic: As I’ve always suspected, Health Care = Communism + Frappuccinos
By MATTHEW HOLT
Our 20th birthday continues with a few classics coming out. Back in 2005 I was really cutting a lyrical rug, and would never miss a chance to get that Cambridge training in Marxism into use. This essay about whether health care should be a public or private good has always been one of my favorites, even if I’m not sure Starbucks is still making Frappuccinos. And 18 years later the basic point of this essay remains true, even if many of you will not have a clue who Vioxx or Haliburton were or why they mattered back then!
Those of you who think I’m an unreconstructed commie will correctly suspec...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt Communism Frappuccinos Source Type: blogs
Post-Pandemic Trends Influencing Digital Transformation
The following is a guest article by Lynne Bell, Vice President, Vertical Markets at Spectrum Enterprise
Digital transformation in the healthcare industry has been propelled by technology advancements, evolving regulations, and changing patient expectations. When the pandemic brought about rapid change, leading healthcare organizations needed to quickly embrace and adopt digital health strategies and modern technologies to meet shifting employee and patient needs. As the industry moves beyond the pandemic to reconsider technology needs and priorities going forward, three important trends are emerging that are influencing di...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Charter Communications Inc. Digital Health Digital Transformation Healthcare Consumerism Lynne Source Type: blogs
Neurotech, neuroethics and brain data in context: Are “neurorights” the way to mental privacy?
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
To Learn More:
Brain Data in Context: Are New Rights the Way to Mental and Brain Privacy? (AJOB Neuroscience). From the Abstract:
The potential to collect brain data more directly, with higher resolution, and in greater amounts has heightened worries about mental and brain privacy … To better understand the privacy stakes of brain data, we suggest the use of a conceptual framework from information ethics, Helen Nissenbaum’s “contextual integrity” theory. To illustrate the importance of context, we examine neurotechnologies and the information flows th...
Source: SharpBrains - August 10, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation brain data brain privacy Brain-Computer Interfaces contextual integrity mental privacy neural data neurotechnologies Neurotechnology Source Type: blogs
