Michael Measures

Technical Director (Healthcare)

[Kanthan Theivendran (also on Bluesky) @KTheivendran]

Interesting article. Given the recent Darzi report do we need to reconsider NOT procuring these EPRs/EHRs in the @NHSEngland

@wesstreeting @InstituteGC

[Department of Health and Social Care @DHSCgovuk]

"I've worked in the NHS for more than 30 years, but I've been shocked by what I've found during this investigation."

Professor Lord Darzi's diagnosis of our NHS 👇

https://t.co/xYE1Zlrg2z

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

Great to see our @OpenSAFELY highlighted in the Darzi review as an example of a patient data platform that actually works. But he's right: it's under-used. That's a HUGE problem in the NHS. Tech is hard. Some teams do deliver. But how do you get adoption?
https://t.co/Hauhb5GVfW

[The King's Fund @TheKingsFund]

Each month’s performance statistics show poor performance continues to be an issue for the #NHS, with today’s likely to follow this trends. In his blog, Siva explores why Lord Darzi’s review is an opportunity for radical change rather than just tinkering. https://t.co/P8f5Qmp2vi

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

James Earl Jones was an icon. He will always live on with his legacy of playing some of the greatest characters of all time. But we all know about his tremendous acting ability. So I want to talk about his heart. When we filmed Conan, I was the new kid on the block, and he couldn’t have been more welcoming. He was always willing to read lines with me in his trailer, and he always had the perfect acting advice. He was a fantastic mentor who taught me about the craft and about Hollywood. He didn’t have to do that, and it shows you how big his heart was. I’ll miss him, and I will never forget him.

[Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva]

CILIP, the professional body for UK librarians, is keen to help with the National Data Library https://t.co/JnxaE6WSPi

(Will be disappointing if it turns out Labour is only calling this a data "library" because it sounds more trustworthy than "lake")

#datapolicy #databasestate

[Dara Ó Briain @daraobriain]

Somebody posted this insane Spotify playlist of every track on: Now 1 - 114 (1983 - 2023) Now That's What I Call Music 1 - 114 https://t.co/r6tTpI90RU
And it’s like a lifetime of cultural archaeology. I might listen to all 228 hours of it.
Currently reliving my university years.

[Resolution Foundation @resfoundation]

Currently, absolute and relative poverty are heading in the wrong direction.

If the economic forecasts and policies inherited by the new Gov remained unchanged, 1.5 million more people, including 400,000 children, would be in relative poverty by the end of the Parliament.

https://t.co/b1kGDPErGG

[John Grant @jhngrant]

@swardley “China led in just three of 64 technologies in 2003–2007 but is now the lead country in 57 of 64 technologies in 2019–2023”

https://t.co/AsD8GkUvLD

[Nuffield Trust @NuffieldTrust]

🆕 We've updated our #QualityWatch analysis of delayed discharges from hospital.

A quarter of patients who are in hospital for more than 21 days are delayed leaving because they are waiting for a bed in a care home.

Find out more here 👇
https://t.co/Vh1Xc8NBpN

[Josh Mandel, MD @JoshCMandel]

I accidentally asked for "nonsense summary" instead of a "no-nonsense summary" of an HL7 project proposal. I kinda love what a trigram deletion can do to an otherwise sober request.

For those who speak HL7, "Domain Analysis Model" -> " magical flowchart" ;-)

[Nuffield Trust @NuffieldTrust]

There are continued hopes that #AI will help solve some of the NHS’s problems. @jessRmorley says it is important that the optimism for the role of AI in the #NHS comes with necessary realism. 👇 https://t.co/DFWm6AhxXl

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

Holub's Law of "Agile Transformation": No organization with a standard process across the organization is agile.

Teams in an agile organization are self-organizing and self-managing. Each team decides how it will do its work. Forcing a "standard" process onto the organization is the opposite of Agile.

Corollary 1: You cannot become Agile by bringing in an army of trainers, particularly Scrum or SAFe trainers. There's nothing wrong with bringing in a bunch of people who actually know what they're doing to work with the teams, but if those people have an agenda or if they're hawking some canned process, they're doing active damage.

Corollary 2: Every big consultancy (Deloitte, &c.) sells Agile-branded snake oil.

[Jarett Wieselman @JarettSays]

I would watch a feature length documentary about the two women who voice The Minions in Italian

[Jeni Tennison @JeniT]

Looking forward to the new government balancing up their courting of big tech with similar engagement with citizens, communities and civil society.

[Thomas Pope @tompope0]

Lots of focus yesterday on the in-year 'black hole', but Rachel Reeves also announced some important changes to the rhythm of fiscal policy, including plans for the new spending review.

NEW comment for me from @instituteforgov here 1/2

[Digital Health @digitalhealth2]

Science secretary Peter Kyle has announced £100 million funding for research hubs to develop quantum technologies for fields including healthcare and cybersecurity.

Full story 👉 https://t.co/bC6zDSMP31

[Matt Clifford @matthewclifford]

This is a great post by my fellow West Yorkshire-ian @thomasforth on making the UK the richest country in the world (again) https://t.co/yruZ6aw97J

[Ben White @drbenwhite]

Amazing idea. We could call it "Public Health England"

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Some details on Llama-3.1 at The Verge.

"Meta releases the biggest and best open-source AI model yet: Llama 3.1 outperforms OpenAI and other rivals on certain benchmarks. Now, Mark Zuckerberg expects Meta’s AI assistant to surpass ChatGPT’s usage in the coming months."
https://t.co/W5fKvUuEMZ