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== COVID-19 Outbreak: all meetings are cancelled until further notice.  ==


== Next Meeting: Dr Mohammed Al-Ubaydli, Patient-Centred Medical Data ==
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'''23rd May, 2018'''


Medicine is changing. Records are moving to digital form. Diagnosis is increasingly being done by computers. Patients are moving around the world as never before. They need their records where they fall ill, wherever that may be, not locked away in their GP's filing cabinet or local server.
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Dr Al-Ubaydli will talk about the Care Information Exchange. This is an initiative that helps the NHS make sure that patients receive the best care and to helps them to be more in control of their health. It provides secure online access to medical records for them and for health and social care professionals. Imperial Health Charity has provided funding for the system, which currently is being rolled out in North West London.
= 2020 Programme =
Dates for our meetings in 2020 are as follows (future dates are always provisional):


Dr Al-Ubaydli set up Patients Know Best (PKB) in 2008 with the object of unifying access to medical records. The system is not an electronic records service, but a tool that stitches such records together. Patients authorise their doctors to write in their PKB file, thus creating one centralised record. Dr Al-Ubaydli has stated that his firm is not the 'Facebook of patient medical records" and emphasises that the firm does not sell any data.


Our talk will be given just two days before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force. GDPR gives patients a right of access to their medical records. By 2020 the government will require that patients give consent for any use of their data, including medical data. This, together with increasing digitization of data will have a profound effect on how our medical records are stored in the future.
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Dr Al-Ubaydli is trained as a computer scientist before changing course to qualify as a physician at the University of Cambridge. He has worked as a staff scientist at the US National Institute of Health. He is also an honorary senior research associate at UCL medical school for his research on patient-controlled medical records. In 2012 he was elected an Ashoka Fellow for the contributions he has made to patient care.
We hope to have meetings on a range of topics including Immunology, the Dark Net, Big Data (including the Chinese Social Credit system), and Dark Matter but final speakers and dates have yet to be confirmed.


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Revision as of 06:52, 28 March 2020

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2020 Programme

Dates for our meetings in 2020 are as follows (future dates are always provisional):


Month Day of Month Speaker Title
February 20th Nick Burton Epigenetics.
March 19th Leah Grolman How self-driving cars can navigate legislative obstacles CANCELLED
April 23rd CANCELLED CANCELLED
The following meetings had been scheduled, but were cancelled because of the Covid-19 pandemic
May 14th Adrian Smith and ... II Big Data: how corporations exploit our private data
June 18th Prof Yorick Wilks Weapons, War and Ethics
September 16th Dr Robert Flack Dark Matter
October 22nd Gary McLean Understanding Coronaviruses
November 19th Gp. Capt. Andrew Green Fighting Coronavirus

For the very latest updates, see the trello card.

We hope to have meetings on a range of topics including Immunology, the Dark Net, Big Data (including the Chinese Social Credit system), and Dark Matter but final speakers and dates have yet to be confirmed.

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