Awards

• Winner of Winner, 2022 BMA Medical Book Awards, General Medicine.

Overview

New technologies like AI, medical apps and implants seem very exciting but they too often have bugs and are susceptible to cyberattacks. Even well-established technologies like infusion pumps, pacemakers and radiotherapy aren't immune.Until digital healthcare improves, digital risk means that patients may be harmed unnecessarily, and healthcare staff will continue to be blamed for problems when it's not their fault.This book tells stories of widespread problems with digital healthcare. The stories inspire and challenge anyone who wants to make hospitals and healthcare better. The stories and their resolutions will empower patients, clinical staff and digital developers to help transform digital healthcare to make it safer and more effective. This book is not just about the bugs and cybersecurity threats that affect digital healthcare. More importantly, it's about the solutions that can make digital healthcare much safer.

Full Product Details

Author:   Harold Thimbleby (See Change Fellow in Digital Health, See Change Fellow in Digital Health, Swansea University, Wales, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.980kg
ISBN:  

9780198861270

ISBN 10:   0198861273
Pages:   600
Publication Date:   08 October 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

1: How to read this book PART 1: Diagnosis - riskier than you think 2: We don't know what we don't know 3: Cat Thinking 4: Dogs dancing 5: Fatal overdose 6: Swiss Cheese 7: Victims & second victims 8: Side-effects and scandals 9: The scale of the problem 10: Medical apps and bug blocking PART 2: Treatment - Finding solutions 11: Cars have got safer 12: Safety Two 13: Computational Thinking 14: Risky calculations 15: Who's accountable? 16: Regulation needs fixing 17: Safe and secure 18: Who profits? 19: Interoperability 20: Human Factors 21: Computer Factors 22: User Centered Design 23: Iterative Design 24: Wedge Thinking 25: Attention to detail 26: Planes have got safer 27: Stories for developers 28: Finding bugs 29: Choose safety Part 3: Prognosis - a better future 30: Signs of life 31: The pivotal pandemic? 32: Living happily ever after 33: Good reading 34: Notes 35: Healthcare openness and acknowledgements

Reviews

This is an extraordinary book: a potent and engaging compendium of revelatory stories, bold insights, wise advice, and fresh thinking. * Daniel Jackson (Professor of Computer Science, MIT) * This is a brilliant and hugely enjoyable book which should be compulsory reading for anyone with high-level responsibility for patient care. * Martin Elliott (former Medical Director, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children) *

Author Information

Prof Harold Thimbleby is See Change Fellow in Digital Health, based at Swansea University, Wales. He is Expert Advisor on IT to the Royal College of Physicians, a member of the World Health Organization's Patient Safety Network, and an advisor to the Clinical Human Factors Group and to the UK Medicines Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Although a professor of computer science, he is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Edinburgh Royal College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society of Arts; he's also a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He has been a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder and a Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow, and he is 28th Gresham Professor of Geometry. Harold won the British Computer Society's Wilkes Medal and his last book, Press On: Principles of Interaction Programming (MIT Press), won several international awards.

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