Prof Joe McDonald, NHS Digital Reform Specialist

Shrink. Founded @greatnorthcare

[Prof Joe McDonald, NHS Digital Reform Specialist @CompareSoftware]

Space programs and nuclear powered aircraft carriers are allowed to cost billions, clinical software isn’t. It’s software. No titanium heat shields. Software. How did we get into this mess? Find out in my book “FHIR and Loathing Las Vegas” £5.99 https://t.co/XZ9e7CVjYo

[Prof Joe McDonald, NHS Digital Reform Specialist @CompareSoftware]

@louismosley @PLTRs_Palantir Tom Watson talking shite on the bbc . As a lifelong member of the Labour Party . This is disgusting, @andyburnham @ChiOnwurah @CMcKinnellMP @

[Chi Onwurah 💙 @ChiOnwurah]

We're facing global insecurity, climate change, war in Ukraine and AI transformation, and all the Tories can offer is tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulation, leaving it to the likes of Elon Musk and water companies to decide our future,I said on Keegan on @Newsnight last night

[Prof Joe McDonald, NHS Digital Reform Specialist @CompareSoftware]

@tom_nhs Desperate. I didn’t know you could block people on linked in until you blocked me for disagreeing with you Tom. Presumably you block me on twitter now, right?

[Prof Joe McDonald, NHS Digital Reform Specialist @CompareSoftware]

@tom_nhs @digitalhealth2 @ChiOnwurah @andyburnham @NHSEngland @NHSDigAcademy @CMcKinnellMP @BBCNewsnight Pick a day @tom_nhs

[Prof Joe McDonald, NHS Digital Reform Specialist @CompareSoftware]

@tom_nhs Shall we have a demo-off , Tom ? I'll bring my friends to Trafalgar Square and you bring yours?
@digitalhealth2
@ChiOnwurah
@andyburnham
@NHSEngland
@NHSDigAcademy
@CMcKinnellMP
@BBCNewsnight

[Prof Joe McDonald, NHS Digital Reform Specialist @CompareSoftware]

@tom_watson You are a disgrace to my party. Shame on you.

[Prof Joe McDonald, NHS Digital Reform Specialist @CompareSoftware]

@AdeByrne @tom_nhs @digitalhealth2 @ChiOnwurah @andyburnham @NHSEngland @NHSDigAcademy @CMcKinnellMP @BBCNewsnight Thanks Ade. Time to stand up to the Tory VIP lane nonsense that is FDP before it infects @andyburnham s new government. @ChiOnwurah @CMcKinnellMP

[Ade Byrne 🇮🇪🏂 @AdeByrne]

@CompareSoftware @tom_nhs @digitalhealth2 @ChiOnwurah @andyburnham @NHSEngland @NHSDigAcademy @CMcKinnellMP @BBCNewsnight I will come @CompareSoftware 😀

[Prof Joe McDonald, NHS Digital Reform Specialist @CompareSoftware]

@tom_nhs Shall we have a demo-off , Tom ? I'll bring my friends to Trafalgar Square and you bring yours?
@digitalhealth2
@ChiOnwurah
@andyburnham
@NHSEngland
@NHSDigAcademy
@CMcKinnellMP
@BBCNewsnight

[Ade Byrne 🇮🇪🏂 @AdeByrne]

I thought we had already established a. Procurement was dodgy b. Benefits are dodgy c. The palantir UK workforce is almost exclusively sales and PR
https://t.co/THfZB4piJd

[Prof Joe McDonald, NHS Digital Reform Specialist @CompareSoftware]

Worried @PalantirTech may get their hands on your Single Patient Record ? Then let the National Data Guardian know by taking their survey https://t.co/ztHBoN1fSk
#SPR

[Prof Joe McDonald, NHS Digital Reform Specialist @CompareSoftware]

@parthaskar @Thirlwall_Inq @NHSEngland @NHSE_WTE @DrLKVaughan @DrAsifQasim @DrSelvarajah @respirologist @doctor_oxford @DrSteveTaylor @AlisonGeorge10 @ShivaniM_KC @DrHuw @COPDdoc https://t.co/j10TyNpDyK we can fix this but lack the stomach for the uncomfortable conversations required.

[Prof Joe McDonald, NHS Digital Reform Specialist @CompareSoftware]

@ChiOnwurah When an industry suddenly starts behaving like it is in need of regulation be aware of the "regulatory capture" playbook. The AI tech bros know all about it and how to play the game. https://t.co/YkTXpQrGbr

[Prof Joe McDonald, NHS Digital Reform Specialist @CompareSoftware]

Eh Mr @JamesFrith ?

[Prof Joe McDonald, NHS Digital Reform Specialist @CompareSoftware]

At some point, presumably; we get to find out if big tech runs the government or the government runs big tech.

[Health Service Journal @HSJnews]

FDP benefits were overestimated by £1.7bn https://t.co/VmUpXuAMqf

[Chi Onwurah 💙 @ChiOnwurah]

We don't talk enough about how concentrated key tech markets are- cloud, social media, LLMs, AI chips. This @newsmediaorg event @FT was a welcome discussion on the lack of competition in digital markets and how it impacts economic growth and public trust

https://t.co/Qup5cZDNNb

[Roy Lilley 💙 @RoyLilley]

The tariff becomes an alliance health policy, expressed in money. https://t.co/UNsi2fsOS7

[Chi Onwurah 💙 @ChiOnwurah]

Following our SITC @HoCcommitteesUK report Science diplomacy: Sovereignty, strategy, and the global race, I asked the SoS what assessment had been made of the impact on our economy and wider society of being cut off from accessing frontier AI models.

[Chi Onwurah 💙 @ChiOnwurah]

💯 this! The anthropomorphising of AI is fundamentally an attempt by tech companies to avoid responsibility for lazy, negligent or frankly dangerous design.

[Chi Onwurah 💙 @ChiOnwurah]

This is a huge win for everyone who has worked to hold social media platforms accountable - but it has come through the US courts and only applies in the US, UK legislation needs to catch up.