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Weeknotes S01E07

Week 7 was a short week as I took some time off for my eldest son's birthday. In turn my Weeknotes are also short and mainly about identity. What did

Weeknotes

Weeknotes S01E05

What did I work on?I worked with the team to define some architecture for shipping logs from a range of heterogenous systems and services into a data repository with

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Weeknotes S01E04

I reached out to the NHS Digital IM1 team regarding PFS (Patient Facing Services) and Immunisation, particularly vaccination status visibility from the GP Patient Record. A digital passport may be

Tech

Find your NHS number service shows how to fix interoperability

This week NHS Digital launched the Find your NHS Number service. It is fantastic and I am delighted to see it exist, but not for the reasons you might initially think - it showed the way to a better, more Interoperable NHS.

Weeknotes

Weeknotes S01E03

We talked about the importance of defining a cost function and why it was so critical to get right before any algorithms could be of significant value.

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Weeknotes S01E02

Andy tweeted about this problem and tagged me in it, I gave it some thought about how to match patients to a candidate ward and what kind of dataset would

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Weeknotes S01E01

My first Weeknote

Tech

Organising Source Code

A system for passing the dropbox test and improved source code workflow

Tech

Fun with SSH Tunnels to a Raspberry Pi

I can connect to it from anywhere and use it as a entry point into my network using tunnels to access devices that aren't open to the internet

Tech

Protecting Children on the Internet

Do we really know what they are exposed to? How do we keep them safer online?

Productivity

Hosting your own blog

Start a personal blog and publish on it instead of closed platforms that pretend to be open.

Maver Space Program

The Maver Space Program

Raspberry pi computers that have been attached to weather balloons and sent to the edges of the earth’s atmosphere aka near space

Life

2020 Personal Goals

Like most people I set new years resolutions that are pretty much unrealistic, over optimistic or just ridiculous.

Life

Our future is in little hands

I thought I would share the content of a recent talk I gave at Health Tech Women UK, a cameo appearance I had agreed to do in Manchester. I have

Life

The hardest week of my life

He’d been to the doctors and checked over, but less than 24 hours later something wasn’t right, his head was bobbing a lot and he was panting for breath, he didn’t want food and wasn’t himself, holding him in my arms he was floppy, he was lifeless, my baby boy was dying.

Life

A personal health app architecture

As a data geek I love the quantified self movement. Understanding my body, my health and how to improve it with insights is super cool. Having so much information can cause a signal v noise issue, but managed properly can give real insights and help me make better decisions.

Maker

My 3 year old daughter hacked a Google Chromebook

Sienna loves ‘computer science time’ the time when her and I both have daddy and daughter time connecting things up to the Raspberry Pi and making it do fun stuff, like making lights flash, motors spin and playing sounds.

Productivity

Hacking my mind for health and wellbeing

This year I did something I haven’t really done before, I gave something up for lent.

Books

A year of books: Essentialism

Sometimes it is almost paralysing and one can’t get anything meaningful done for serving the needs of others. I am yet to see a role advertised that says ‘help everyone else achieve their goals’

Books

A year of books : Mindset

One of the reasons I wanted to read this book is to understand the ways in which I can develop my own mindset to become more comfortable outside of my areas of expertise and recognise when I am behaving in a fixed mindset way.

Books

I am a black belt in Tsundoku

I read a lot of books, one every two weeks is the norm for me. Currently I am reading Mindset by Carol S. Dweck, it is one I will finish

Career

Hello

I am delighted to say as we enter 2016, I have been asked to provide a leadership role for the transformation of NHS.UK and I have accepted that challenge. I feel extremely privileged to help many talented teams, from multiple organisations, form around a new purpose and a new culture.

Books

Leading the Management of My Personal Healthcare

I can manage that trigger. I haven’t YET had my DNA sequenced but I have seen what it looks like, it’s the floaty thing with all the bubbles attached to it.

Cycling

Cycling Adventure

Todays ride was extremely action packed, I feel like I have finally arrived as a cyclist now.

Productivity

Seeing a beautiful day – Working in the NHS

The staff in the NHS work so hard it is unbelievable, the hours people work are insane, often unpaid overtime and they do it because they believe and actually do make a difference to the lives of other individuals.