Tony Yates - Tony Yates

Thoughts on sources of truth

When I hear the words 'single source of truth' I often pause and think for a moment to understand the context of the sentence. Here are my thoughts on what it means to me using the healthcare domain.

A day out at Barton

Manchester Barton airfield is a lovely place. It has a great vibe to it, a play area for the kids and plenty of inbound, outbound flights to keep any aviator happy. The café is lovely too. Looking forward to landing here myself in the future, probably my first grass landing.

Thoughts On

Thoughts on Delight

My thoughts on the word 'delight' and what it means for users

SARDism Podcast

I recently did a podcast with the lovely folks at SARD JV. It was a lot of fun going down memory lane talking about what got me into technology, my work on 111, NHS.UK, flying planes, checklists, snooker and all other kinds of ramblings. You can listen on the

Tech

Overclocking my PC for more performance

That's a 24% increase in performance and I can totally tell. It's snappy and I can really feel the difference across everything I do on this machine.

Atomic Essays

NHS Patient Demographics Service

It's the canonical source of truth for your national health identity data.

Productivity

Be more like the flower

How to actually become a 10x engineer/person

Week 43 Notes

I have been on vacation this week and spent my time with my family in Anglesey getting soaked, lots of outdoors fun, warm clothes, fireside food and drinks kind of week. Loved it and feeling refreshed. I didn't spend much time near a computer at all so a short update.

Weeknotes

Week 42 Notes

Hiring, Distributed Ways of Working, Creating a Vision, Wardley Mapping, Personality Tests and Aviation

Weeknotes

Week 41 Notes

Babies, Aviation, Medical, Monte Carlo Simulations and Clapping for NHS Digital

Weeknotes

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 I work on?Identity - it seems like it's a lighthouse topic that comes around every so often to shine

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 low latency. Logfiles & Event Streams → Logstash → Redis → Logstash → Cloudwatch is the crooks of it and got a basic version

Weeknotes

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 key to getting back to some normality or mass gatherings. This is now visible in the NHS App and will

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.

Weeknotes

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 be required to facilitate this. Part of the problem seemed similar to NHS 111 where a patient has deterministic needs

Weeknotes

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 worked with Louise for some time, and met Maxine at a recent conference, its great work they are doing and

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.