First published as a blog article on in the Health Management Institute of Ireland Journal. One of the most critical parts that must be carefully considered when creating an eHealth fabric for any care delivery system is not the latest innovation but actually how will the system react under the worst case scenario. Many systems… Read More
It has been great preparing for this years ISF Congress for a number of reasons, not least of which has been looking again at the Datatopia work we did last year and considering the links to the work completed by the Analogies Project. This has been done in preparation for sharing, with a global audience,… Read More
The Analogies Project has made a difference to the way my organisation thinks about Information Governance and Security! Given the opportunity to be a contributor with an analogy I jumped at the chance. My first one, ‘Why is Information Governance like car insurance?’ was a labour of love. It seemed to make sense straight away.… Read More
Security and research information is a hot topic right now for a number of reasons, not least the transparency agenda and the desire, quite rightly, to be as open as possible about data relating to the conditions and outcomes of clinical trials. However the information security of research data more generally has always been an… Read More
I am reading Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise, and a thought struck me about his categorisation of those that can make good forecasts and those that would be best leaving it to luck. He proposes that there are two types of people who forecast; the Hedgehogs amongst us are specialized people, often having… Read More
The National Institute for Clinical Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) is the clinical research delivery arm of the Department of Health. Today the organisation is governed through around 70 hosting contracts across the NHS, in April 2014 this will reduce to 15 as the CRN implements a transition programme that will simplify the structures… Read More