Been a busy few weeks in the Beastwood house. My son survived his kindergarten screening and a trip to a new dentist, I survived three trips to the doctor (for routine appointments, thankfully) with my mother, and we all survived four and a half days in the White Mountains for the Fourth of July (a trip bookended by visits to two different children’s museums in southern New Hampshire).
Stuff I Wrote
- MIT Sloan Ideas Made to Matter: 5 investments to close the gap between AI wealth and welfare so society as a whole benefits from the technology (not just already wealthy business owners)
- Digital Health Insights: What increased portal message volume, in-person visit volume say about the future of care, and what health systems need to do to cope
- Digital Health Insights: AI’s benefits have reached the revenue cycle, but adoption remains uneven – and if you said the smaller, community-based hospitals are missing out, of course you’d be right
- Digital Health Insights: WISeR under fire in Congress amid reports of delays in Washington state, because apparently no one likes prior authorization (especially in Medicare)
- HealthTech Magazine: How Business Associate Agreement Terms Apply to Google’s Generative AI and emphasize the safety and privacy of PHI and PII
- Custom content for clients in digital health, enterprise tech, clinical research data management, market research data management, and more
Things I Did
- Went to more beaches than I can count and didn’t bother to clean the trunk
- Attended my son’s preschool graduation, complete with mini caps and gowns
- Experienced the brick-and-mortar sociology experiment that is Walmart Supercenter in Conway, N.H. on the Thursday before Fourth of July weekend to buy as many box fans as I could fit in a single shopping cart to cool off our AC-less rental condo while the heat dome covered the East Coast
- Signed up for the Manchester (N.H.) City Marathon with the hopes of avenging my Worst Marathon Ever, which I ran there in 2012 (through no fault of the race itself, which is actually quite lovely)
- Learned that the easiest way to remove matted fur from a long-haired cat is, believe it or not, to gently pull it out
Adventures in Fatherhood
- In the weeks leading up to Father’s Day, I joked with my family that, as a Boring Suburban Dad, all I wanted as a present was white socks. My son sensed that this was a Dad Joke and was all too happy to play along – and even told me a trip to CVS with Mom was happening so they could get *black* socks to go with them. (I also got to sleep in while Mom and son went to Dunk’s.)
- When we talked about activities to plan for the Fourth of July in New Hampshire, my son said he wanted to make a gingerbread house. As astute readers will recall, we made a gingerbread house for St. Patrick’s Day, so this request wasn’t out of left field. My son has no interest in eating any of the candy with which on traditionally decorates a gingerbread house; it’s all about the experience. This experience meant red, white, and blue candy, of course.
- Though our primary connection to the World Cup is themed Squishmallows acquired via Happy Meals, we did catch the end of the Brazil-Norway Round of 16 game while out to dinner on vacation. Amid explaining the intricacies of soccer to my son AND father-in-law (thankfully neither asked me what it means to be offside), we decided our favorite player is The Viking. I can’t really argue with that.
Happy rest of July. We’re home for most of the month, which means we’ll do approximately 2,345 extemporaneous craft projects. The crayons are ready…
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