Tony Yates

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

My first Weeknote