Fix IT, 9780198861270
Paperback
Digital healthcare’s risky: Bugs, hacks, and solutions for safer care.

Fix IT

see and solve the problems of digital healthcare

$140.22

  • Paperback

    600 pages

  • Release Date

    30 December 2021

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Summary

Fix IT: How to Solve the Digital Healthcare Crisis

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.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780198861270
ISBN-10:0198861273
Author:Harold Thimbleby
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:600
Edition:1st
Release Date:30 December 2021
Weight:980g
Dimensions:233mm x 155mm x 28mm
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Critics Review

This is an extraordinary book: a potent and engaging compendium of revelatory stories, bold insights, wise advice, and fresh thinking.

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) *

About The Author

Harold Thimbleby

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 InteractionProgramming (MIT Press), won several international awards.

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