2016 has been a great year for me and it looks like this year is going to be better. I met with Shubz who informed me that people are now willing to pay to put their courses on the website. We have also had requests for an API key for our online database by other … Continue reading Want to innovate? 4 reasons why you shouldn’t chase popularity
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5 reasons why coding and tech innovation made me a happier person
In hindsight being 100% clinical made me depressed. I like many other clinicians weren't happy and chalked it up to not enough government funding, stress and lack of support. Whilst there are reasonable criticisms of how the NHS treats it's a slippery slope. What's dangerous is focusing too much on how the government treats the NHS … Continue reading 5 reasons why coding and tech innovation made me a happier person
5 clinical learning points I took to coding
As I push forward to graduation, more and more doctors are coming out of the woodwork expressing their interest in coding and implementing tech solutions in healthcare. In-fact, the amount of doctors contacting me became so numerous I decided to start a Meetup group for medics learning and implementing code in order to economize my … Continue reading 5 clinical learning points I took to coding
Interview: James Bird
James Bird is the Lead Nurse for Emergency Services at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Although he doesn't code in standard languages such as Python or Java he has still managed to provide a software solution that improved the incident reporting that charge nurses encountered in A and E. This software solution that as implemented … Continue reading Interview: James Bird
Want to dip your toe into tech innovation? Forget smartphone app development
It's great that so many doctors and nurses want to get involved in tech innovation. There are clearly loads of areas that apps can improve. Work flow and communication is begging to be streamlined and doctors and nurses have to insight to solve these problems. However, there is one thing I have to point out … Continue reading Want to dip your toe into tech innovation? Forget smartphone app development
Increasing computational power empowers clinicians
I love this time of year. The air is sharp and fresh enough to perk me up in the morning. I find myself being able to reset my body clock from the 3am internet addiction. A lot has happened over the past couple of months. The MSc is now in full swing and the more and … Continue reading Increasing computational power empowers clinicians
What can Dyson tell us about success?
I've fallen in love with audible. I can pack in a few extra words of wisdom when I'm walking, doing laundry, cooking etc. Definitely an improvement from the random patchy music I listen to on the youtube app. I've got through a range of self-improvement, business, and biographical books. I liked the first one and then got lazy … Continue reading What can Dyson tell us about success?
Tips for clinicians to start coding
I get it, long shifts in a hospital to not encourage the average clinician to learn how to code. There is no doubt that coding can improve your data handling abilities and automate some very dull tasks or improve communication and clinical outcomes, but the environment you work in can make it hard to get you … Continue reading Tips for clinicians to start coding
Bryan Podcast: Episode 4
I and Nathan Blake answer questions and generally talk about med tech and clinical innovation in a relaxed fashion. Warning! The podcast is up to an hour long, is tangential and also contains personal anecdotes and light politics. As opposed to the inspirational clinicians section that tries to pack information into a short interview this … Continue reading Bryan Podcast: Episode 4
Man, what a beating
I am now in full swing in my postgrad at UCL. Two twelve hour shifts over the weekend rolling into lectures into lectures throughout the week. I wanted to get information on projects so in between this I've been juggling multiple meetings and reading around each project in order not to waste the supervisors' time. … Continue reading Man, what a beating
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