Dr Isabel Straw

Assist. Professor in Healthcare Artificial Intelligence & Cybersecurity @UCL | Emergency Doctor @NHSuk | MD MPH MRes PhD in #AI | Director at @bleep_Digital l

[Dr Isabel Straw @IsabelStrawMD]

💡[1/5] Here we tell the story of *Daniel—a patient who died while streaming to the cloud. His case highlights the gaps in modern #autopsies, that overlook the changing nature of dying & #digital elements of patient death. Link > https://t.co/ehmTwqVABQ 🤖*Pseudoynm #AI @UCL_IHI

[Dr Isabel Straw @IsabelStrawMD]

Awesome to see PM @Kier_Starmer_PM speaking at University College London @ucl today, launching the 'AI Action Plan' from @GOVUK 🙌. The report highlights the growing role of AI in the UK & the importance of ensuring it benefits citizens https://t.co/JmQlZ0C35o
@UCLEast @UCL_IHI

[UCL Policy Lab @UCLPolicyLab]

How can we make developments in AI work for working people?

Great to see the Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer set out the government’s plan at @UCL today, alongside inspiring scientists, medics, entrepreneurs and community leaders.

[UCL Policy Lab @UCLPolicyLab]

How can we make developments in AI work for working people?

Great to see the Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer set out the government’s plan at @UCL today, alongside inspiring scientists, medics, entrepreneurs and community leaders.

[Dr Isabel Straw @IsabelStrawMD]

A great article summarising the cybersecurity challenges facing the @NHSuk. Securing the #healthcare sector against #cyberattacks comes with domain-specific issues, requiring novel solutions designed at the intersection of #medicine & engineering. Cybersafety is patient safety 🏥

[The Doctor Magazine @TheDrMagazine]

Emergency medicine doctor and researcher in AI and cybersecurity in healthcare @IsabelStrawMD warns that cyber-attacks on the NHS are increasing year-on-year, adding that the vast and interdependent digital ecosystem of the health service made it particularly vulnerable.

‘Healthcare [in particular] relies on this huge landscape of interacting vendors and servers, different technologies,’ explains Dr Straw.

‘When a cyberattack hits, even if it might not have initially been targeting healthcare, healthcare services can end up being taken down as a result.’ [3/6]

[Dr Isabel Straw @IsabelStrawMD]

Latest #NHS Cyberattack appears to be evolving across multiple sites - Early reports still coming out on the impact on clinical operations and #patient care 🏥https://t.co/ke3oON7ZW7 #Cyberattack #patientsafety #patientcare

[Liverpool Echo @LivEchonews]

More NHS hospitals affected by 'major cyber incident' as appointments cancelled https://t.co/LXXLYIfEgk

[Dr Isabel Straw @IsabelStrawMD]

🙌 Thank you to my supervisors Prof Parashkev Nachev & @profgeraintrees for their support during my PhD, the team @UCL_IHI, & my mentors in @uclcs including Dr @leotanczt & the #Gender & Tech team! Find the full video on my website for a deep dive into #AI bias in medicine [2/2]

[Dr Isabel Straw @IsabelStrawMD]

🎉 Last week I successfully defended my #PhD focused on #AIbias. This video summarises key findings of: (1) Bias in psychiatric & cardiac #AI, (2) limits of #ML fairness metrics in health, & (3) causal & representation #ML to address bias (Full vid: https://t.co/fAAOAONzk1) [1/2]

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨 [AI REGULATION] @UNESCO published its "Consultation Paper on AI Regulation - Emerging Approaches Across the World," and it's a MUST-READ for everyone in AI governance. Important information:

➵ Among other topics, the consultation paper describes 9 regulatory approaches (with examples from around the world) that are extremely interesting to anyone working or studying AI governance & regulation:

"1️⃣ Principles-Based Approach: Offer stakeholders a set of fundamental propositions (principles) that provide guidance for developing and using AI systems through ethical, responsible, human-centric, and human-rights-abiding processes.

2️⃣ Standards-Based Approach: Delegate (totally or partially) the state’s
regulatory powers to organizations that produce technical standards that
will guide the interpretation and implementation of mandatory rules.

3️⃣ Agile and Experimentalist Approach: Generate flexible regulatory schemes, such as regulatory sandboxes and other testbeds, that allow organizations to test new business models, methods, infrastructure, and tools under more flexible regulatory conditions and with the oversight and accompaniment of public authorities.

4️⃣ Facilitating and Enabling Approach: Facilitate and enable an environment that encourages all stakeholders involved in the AI lifecycle to develop and use responsible, ethical, and human rights-compliant AI systems.

5️⃣ Adapting Existing Laws Approach: Amend sector-specific rules (e.g., health, finance, education, justice) and transversal rules (e.g., criminal codes, public procurement, data protection laws, labor laws) to make incremental improvements to the existing regulatory framework.

6️⃣ Access to Information and Transparency Mandates Approach: Require the
deployment of transparency instruments that enable the public to access basic information about AI systems.

7️⃣ Risk-Based Approach: Establish obligations and requirements in accordance with an assessment of the risks associated with the deployment and use of certain AI tools in specific contexts.

8️⃣ Rights-Based Approach: Establish obligations or requirements to protect individuals' rights and freedoms.

9️⃣ Liability Approach: Assign responsibility and sanctions to problematic
uses of AI systems."

➵ It's important to notice that the regulatory approaches described above are not mutually exclusive, and AI laws around the world will often combine two or more approaches.

➵ The paper will be available for open public consultation in English until 19 September 2024.

➵ Link to download the document below.

🔥 To stay up to date with the latest developments in AI policy, compliance & regulation, join 32,600 people who subscribe to my weekly newsletter (link below).

[bleepDigital @bleep_Digital]

Opening new doors on Day 3 of #Defcon32 🔓! We've been learning about the #cybersecurity of baby monitors (think #techabuse), trends in hospital #ransomware, & the landscape of the #IoMT & #bioweapons. Great to see such a range of workshops & talks at @defcon ! 🤖 🏥 @physsec

[Dr Isabel Straw @IsabelStrawMD]

Loved delivering this workshop at the #Biohacking Village today, with a great team & audience! In a constantly evolving #threat landscape, defending #healthcare infrastructure from #cyberattacks is no small challenge. Well done to all our participants/victims! @DC_BHV #defcon32

[Biohacking Village 🧪 @DC_BHV]

Global Repercussions:
A Tabletop Exercise about decisions making in Healthcare Cybersecurity
Is in full effect at the Spring Hill Suites @defcon and the room is buzzing!!!

#defcon32 #biohackingvillage #tabletopgaming #healthcare

[Dr Isabel Straw @IsabelStrawMD]

It's that time of year again! Let's go #defcon32 ✈️🎊 !! Drop by our workshop at the Biohacking Village (@DC_BHV) tomorrow to learn about hospital #ransomware & all things #MedTech #security... 🤖 Next stop... Vegas! ☀️ #Roadtodefcon @defcon

[Biohacking Village 🧪 @DC_BHV]

Set your alarms ⏰ Tomorrow morning at @defcon - 9am PDT to 1pm PDT Med Team vs. Red Team workshop with @v3ga_hax at the Spring Hill Suites Desert Inn Room. See you there!
Info: https://t.co/lP8dhTTi7h

#defcon #biohackingvillage #medicaldevices #cybersecurity #hackers

[Daniel Cuthbert @dcuthbert]

This is just brilliant research by Dr Straw and co and highlights some incredibly hard challenges doctors and patients face with our ever-connected society

Brilliant work Izzy!!!

[AI-Enabled Healthcare Systems CDT at UCL @cdt_ai_health]

In Dr Isabel Straw's latest article we hear how the nature of death is changing, through the story of a patient who died while connected to the cloud via his #medical implant. Read on to learn how autopsies are adapting in response to #AI & #tech. @UCLResearch @UCLPopHealthSci

[Dr Isabel Straw @IsabelStrawMD]

@geeknik Thanks for the share! Full article here :) : https://t.co/ehmTwqVABQ

[Dr Isabel Straw @IsabelStrawMD]

@NHS [5/5] 👏 Lastly, a huge thanks to the patient and their family who shared their story to make this research possible, and to the @NHS teams who supported their care. Read the full story and our summary here: https://t.co/ehmTwqVABQ @Health_Eng @ucl @uclcs

[Dr Isabel Straw @IsabelStrawMD]

💡[1/5] Here we tell the story of *Daniel—a patient who died while streaming to the cloud. His case highlights the gaps in modern #autopsies, that overlook the changing nature of dying & #digital elements of patient death. Link > https://t.co/ehmTwqVABQ 🤖*Pseudoynm #AI @UCL_IHI

[Dr Isabel Straw @IsabelStrawMD]

[4/5]👩‍⚕️To appropriately care for #implanted patients, we require @NHS protocols in life, & mortuary protocols in death, that account for the potential harms of #digital techn. With this, practitioners can better understand digital pathways to death & protect their #patients.

[bleepDigital @bleep_Digital]

Thank you to everyone who came to “Tech back your bits!” at the @vagina_museum to learn about #Biohacking, Medjacking, #AI bias & #Tech-abuse! Our event material will be available soon, but until then... Check out this great summary from @AgencyResUK !⚕️: https://t.co/g5oYxjFWh6