Current Events by John R. Patrick – 03/15/2024
New sections may appear every week or just when I have something new to share. Photos of the week I have been following World Central Kitchen’s ship, Open Arms with the Marine Traffic app since it...
View ArticleHow Vision Pro Could Change Healthcare
How Vision Pro Could Change HealthcareVR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality) headsets like Apple’s Vision Pro hold immense potential to revolutionize various aspects of healthcare. I have...
View ArticleCurrent Events by John R. Patrick – 03/22/2024
New sections may appear every week or just when I have something new to share. Photos of the week St. Patrick’s Day dinner at Hammock Dunes Club.Neil Berg’s 50 Years of Rock & Roll at EMMA...
View ArticlePodcasting
Podcasting In the pre-dawn of the internet age, a new kind of voice crackled through the wires. It wasn’t the smooth tones of radio DJs or the formal pronouncements of news anchors. This was something...
View ArticleCurrent Events by John R. Patrick – 03/29/2024
New sections may appear every week or just when I have something new to share. Current and upcoming JRP talks Yesterday was my 13th Tech Talk at Hammock Dunes Club. A PDF of my talk is at...
View ArticleProductivity with AI
Productivity with AIIn my talks and writing, I try to point out pluses and minuses of AI. There are plenty of each. In my book, Robot Attitude: How Robots and Artificial Intelligence Will Make Our...
View ArticleCurrent Events by John R. Patrick – 04/05/2024
New sections may appear every week or just when I have something new to share. Current and upcoming JRP talks Yesterday was my 13th Tech Talk at Hammock Dunes Club. A PDF of my talk is at...
View ArticleAI Accuracy
AI AccuracyLast week’s post was about AI Productivity. I thought it was a simple example, but it turned out not to be the case. I asked Gemini how far it was from our 8th floor terrace on the Atlantic...
View ArticleCurrent Events by John R. Patrick – 04/12/2024
New sections may appear every week or just when I have something new to share. Current and upcoming JRP talks March 28th was my 13th Tech Talk at Hammock Dunes Club. A PDF of my talk is at...
View ArticleHealthcare Innovation
Healthcare InnovationOne of the things which can keep your brain healthy is to keep stimulating it. I do that through my reading, writing, and speaking. This week, my brain was super-stimulated by...
View ArticleCurrent Events by John R. Patrick – 04/19/2024
New sections may appear every week or just when I have something new to share. Current and upcoming JRP talks In case you missed it from a prior post, my podcast with Ron Cey is here.The most recent...
View ArticleAI for Our Emotions
AI for Our EmotionsVideo cameras and face recognition have been around for a very long time. The 1920s witnessed the birth of the first mechanical video cameras, using spinning disks with...
View ArticleCurrent Events by John R. Patrick – 04/26/2024
New sections may appear every week or just when I have something new to share. Current and upcoming JRP talks Two new videos are now on my YouTube channel. The Hammock Dunes Tech Talk 13 video is...
View ArticleThe Rise of Biomedical Engineering
The Rise of Biomedical EngineeringIn 1963, when I began studying electrical engineering, there were two tracks of courses a student could choose from: electronics or power. Electronics was about...
View ArticleCurrent Events by John R. Patrick – 05/03/2024
New sections may appear every week or just when I have something new to share. Current and upcoming JRP talks My next talk will be at The Heritage Center in Redding, CT. Another talk is scheduled in...
View ArticleAI in Healthcare – Part 1
AI in Healthcare – Part 1After I finished my doctorate in health administration (at age 69), I wrote Health Attitude: Unraveling and Solving the Complexities of Healthcare, a book on what I had...
View ArticleCurrent Events by John R. Patrick – 05/10/2024
New sections may appear every week or just when I have something new to share. Current and upcoming JRP talks My talk at The Heritage Center in Redding, CT was fun. It was a very nice and very smart...
View ArticleAI in Healthcare – Part 2
AI in Healthcare – Part 2As I mentioned in “AI in Healthcare – Part 1”, the use of AI in healthcare has roots going back into the 1950s alongside the development of the field of AI itself. Progress...
View ArticleCurrent Events by John R. Patrick – 05/17/2024
New sections may appear every week or just when I have something new to share. Current and upcoming JRP talks My next talk will be at the Rivington Club in Danbury, CT. The topic will be “The Rise of...
View ArticleAI in Healthcare – Part 3
AI in Healthcare – Part 3This will be my last article about the mini-series “AI in Healthcare”. In “Ai in Healthcare – Part 2”, I focused on radiology and drug development. I will now wrap up the...
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