From the GreatSchools  website on why young people are applying to college, getting in, and beginning — and then dropping out in record numbers.e Interesting read... https://lnkd.in/dkA_5P8 Matthew Nelson   Andrew Sezonov   Janine McPhee   Patricia Hunt Dirlam …see more

McKinsey report says as many as 375 million workers may need to switch occupational categories as digitization, automation, and advances in artificial intelligence disrupt the world of work. The kinds of skills companies require will shift, with profound implications for the career paths individuals will need to pursue. …see more

Hurray. For unknown reasons, Amazon is selling Trauma Doesn’t Stop the School Door for $22. Maybe they heard me. Was $44. Retail is $34. Sale won’t last. Book will. Critical info for schools and colleges reopening. Buy now!!! Consider this a lucky day! Watch for collateral products that animate the book! …see more

A recent article in the Boston Globe described the struggles of small colleges and their likely collapse in the not too distant future. Sure, some will close but I have a different take. Here's a part of my response: As the former president for 8 plus yrs of one of the colleges referenced, I want to share a more optimistic take on small colleges, including the one I led with a remarkable team over the years. I want to begin with three questions: (1) Whom do these colleges serve? (2) Are their graduates better for having attended and graduated (and even those who stopped out, are they better for the experience)? and (3) If not small colleges, where? Ponder these questions/answers. Small colleges, non-elite small colleges, help many first generation, Pell eligible students find their way. That's powerful in and of itself. Small colleges have faculty who actually teach, and teaching and pedagogy matter to them. Small colleges produce people who help make the world go round: police officers, nurses, community based workers, social workers, teachers, small entrepreneurs, radiology techs, healthcare advocates, coaches.  Returning to the article: You bet there is a place for small colleges. I'd put money on it.  I believe. My question is really: why don't you? …see more

Adrian Lipscombe was 8 months pregnant and in a Ph.D. program when she responded to a call to action to help thousands of DAPL protestors at Standing Rock Sioux reservation to eat a Thanksgiving meal. With the help of residents of her city, they churned out 5,000 loaves of bread. Now, her Uptown cafe is the heart of a LaCrosse, Wisconsin and she still finds time to cook at the James Beard House. Read Adrian's fabulous story as an innovator and entrepreneur, today on https://lnkd.in/eczjAtS #arkrepublic #chef #Native #midwest #DAPL #standingrock #yeschef #thelight #thelightseries #Thanksgiving #blackwomanmagic #entrepreneur #businessowner #creative #innovator #jamesbeardhouse #cooking #SHEchef …see more

Los Angeles City Council held a ceremony for the city’s official renaming of Rodeo Road to Barack Obama Boulevard. Barack Obama Boulevard is an addition to the famed succession of LA streets named after some of the first presidents in the country—Washington Boulevard, Adams Boulevard and Jefferson Boulevard. Ironically, all of whom were slave owners. Nevertheless, the City says that implementing Obama Boulevard establishes a president’s row. Read full story here: http://ow.ly/h7jW50ulnbz …see more

Thanks to many of you who participated in the survey about the #FutureofWork and the Impact of #RemoteWork on our careers. We had over 650 responses. (Woohoo!) I will close the survey later tonight; if you still would like to participate please get your responses in today. We will draw for the multiple $15 Amazon Gift Card winners tomorrow. Stacey Epstein & I will also work on the insights and learnings from the survey to share with you all soon. Please stayed tuned. #remoteworking #careerpaths #flexiblework #customerinsights https://lnkd.in/g3m5ze2 …see more

Happy Monday! I shared some of my experiences about my last few years of career. It's hard to write and put yourself out there, but I do that because I believe in its importance. I hope you all share your experiences in the form of comments below as well. Learning from each others' experiences will help all of us grow as individuals and professionals. Hit like, share this in your network, or comment to express your reaction to this article. #careerdevelopment #careeradvice #leadership #management #empathy …see more

What Are Hospitals to Us? Most of us don’t think too much about hospitals, that is unless you need and use them. And when you do need them, well, you need them. And often you need them close to your home and in your community. But even as hospitals in cities like New York City and Detroit have been deluged with coronavirus patients, many rural facilities now have the opposite problem: their beds are near-empty, their operating rooms are silent, and they're bleeding cash. During these very irregular times, and unlike ‘normal,’ many hospitals are seeing way less patients than normal. Either because people are fearful of going to them for fear of catching COVID-19, or also because all elective (non-urgent) surgeries and other procedures have been postponed. More than 150 hospitals and hospital systems around the country have already furloughed tens of thousands of employees. One reason why rural hospitals in some states have shut more hospitals than others: The states that refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act program have seen more hospital closures. Meanwhile, the pandemic has made it even harder for already financially vulnerable rural hospitals to survive. I’d be very sad if my local hospital closed. Especially if I worked there— …see more

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Next Time You Are in the ER—Register to Vote! Health and Healthcare is dependent on people voting , so why not ‘link and align’ those two in the ER? And that exactly what’s going on in several big hospital ERs. Building a more inclusive health care system starts with creating a more inclusive democracy and the first step in that process is getting more people registered to vote. Democracy has to be ‘hard-wired’ into all aspects of our lives. This is a great idea, simply done and reaches broad swaths of patients! #patientsasvoters Selected Excerpt: “The bottom line is we want to make it easier for people to register to vote. It’s easy...And, it’s so important.” …see more

Surprise! Here’s Your Medical Bill You Didn’t Think You Were Getting...and Don’t Want! Key House and Senate panels have approved proposals that would limit patients’ financial liability if they visit an out-of-network hospital or are treated by an out-of-network provider during an emergency. Powerful doctor and hospital groups are stepping up their opposition to those measures and have mobilized lobby lawmakers and their staff against the effort. Sure, everyone needs to get paid for work done but when you go to the ER after being hit by a bus, you can’t know if the ambulance is taking you to an “in-network” doctor or hospital. Which is what happened to one person who, after being hit by a bus, taken to the ER, then received a $27,000.00 bill—guess he went to the wrong place!! This could affect us all since it also applies to people who go to the ER because they think they—or their child—is sick. But if you do not need ‘emergency care,’ your insurance company will deny the bill and you will be charged out-of-pocket dollars. Truly scary since medical expenses are the number 1 reason for personal bankruptcies. …see more

You Are What You Eat—Regardless Of Politics We all know that the more processed the food, (meaning food that has added the more salt, saturated fats, sugar, refined flour) the worse it is for us, leading to diabetes and obesity. It’s also clear that more red meat is no good for our heart, or blood pressure. Diseases such as atherosclerosis, heart disease, stroke, obesity and Type 2 diabetes are called Lifestyle Diseases because they are caused by eating processed foods. The government is limiting scientific input to the 2020 dietary guidelines, raising concerns among, well every one like scientists, doctors, nutritionists and parents. So why limit what the USDA can study and recommend? Well, because there is one group who thrives off of high-sodium, high-sugar, high-saturated fat and highly processed foods and it’s the large food companies. Sadly we probably cannot look to the Food Pyramid as our nutritional ‘North Star,’ so look to what farmers and grandmas have been doing—eat simple, veggie-based, whole-grain and beans foods more often than not and you’ll be in strong health! Selected Excerpt: “Half of American adults live with one or more diet-related chronic illnesses, and poor diet is the No. 1 cause of ill health in the country.” …see more

You Tell Me Profit Does Not Matter in Healthcare... This article could have been an earnings report for car sales (except car sales are not so strong), about Home starts (except Home starts are not so strong), about pharmaceutical companies (that’s possible but even a stretch for them)... I’m no ‘country bumpkin’ (or anti-capitalist) so I realize Americans are generally OK with Healthcare being a for-profit industry... Yet..it still makes me horribly uncomfortable to read the “good news” that HCA made so much money off of other people’s misfortunes of illness. Wouldn’t it be a better society if we could develop a business model where hospitals and doctors made more money by keeping us healthy and out of hospitals! Selected Excerpt: “For-profit chain HCA Healthcare's net income jumped 25% during the second quarter of 2018... The company's adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization increased 6.6% in the quarter to $2.2 billion...” …see more

If you’d like to travel by air, be aware of these developments. Depending on where you live, you might get a paper certificate that you got the vaccine or maybe this gets inserted into your digital records. But you have to prove it when you want to board a plane. So companies started to work on digital vaccine passports worldwide. However, as it seems, there won't be a single solution. We’ll all have to become experts on which app to use at which airport and airline. Similar to how we used to check the different criteria for baggage allowance. Welcome to the post-COVID globalized world. I’ve been invited to a few medical events to attend in person in the summer of 2021. I guess (hope!) there’ll be consensus by then about what apps I should use to be able to travel (if I’ll have received the vaccine). #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #medicine #technology #speaker #keynote #speakerlife …see more

An episode dedicated to our health as patients from the future: Thank you for having me on the 12Geniuses Podcast! We discuss with Don MacPherson how we approach healthcare and how innovative technologies will usher in a new way of maintaining our health. 12 Geniuses is dedicated to exploring the future and how life is sure to change over the next decade. Tune into this episode! #podcast #12geniuses #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #medicine #technology #speaker #speakerlife #keynote …see more

I'm about to publish a long analysis of my experience of having my genome sequenced and I'm wondering whether you would like to have a genetic test. Please share your thoughts! a) I already did. b) I would like to but I’m afraid of the medical findings c) I would like to but I’m afraid of how the company handles my data. d) No, I don’t want to. …see more

After OpenAI released its first commercial product - a rentable version of a text generation tool - recently, I've seen examples that point to a world where we people will constantly struggle to find out who we are talking to: a person or a bot. It can be so sophisticated, so human-like that we will develop common techniques we will share with each other that help determine whether the entity at the end of the communication line is indeed a robot. Just look at the conversation the bot had with a person about his holiday plans (image below). It's been used to write music lyrics, poems, news articles and many more. I first talked with a chatbot named Eugene in 2015 and it amazed me how it tried to trick me into thinking it was a person. I remember giving it a math test about apples and it asked whether I really wanted to talk about apples. When companies like Woebot offer chatbots for dealing with COVID-19 and related mental health issues, it's particularly important for these chatbots to function properly. Otherwise, they can do a lot of damage. In short: get prepared to bots tricking you into thinking they are human. https://lnkd.in/ejY7VCB #AI #chatbot #DigitalHealth …see more

Data security is one of the biggest concerns related to technology these days - as it's also often expressed regarding our content. This two-part article which we wrote on the apropos of the WannaCry attack is still just as relevant about why we should take this issue seriously and what we can all do for data privacy. #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #medicine #technology #fromchancetochoice #datasecurity #privacy #cyberattack …see more

A recent Forbes article collected 15 social challenges artificial intelligence could solve - many of them healthcare-related. To expand a bit on the healthcare line, we gathered 45 things A.I. has brought to medicine so far - can you recommend any others? …see more