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== Now planning meetings for the 2022 Season  ==
 
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= 2022 Programme =
 
 
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I am currently working on the 2022 programme. I hope to have talks on the following subjects:
 
- Dark Matter,


== Next Meeting: Dr Mohammed Al-Ubaydli, Patient-Centred Medical Data ==
- Quantum computing,
'''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.
- Cyptocurrencies,


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.
- Applied Artificial Intelligence (speaker from DeepMind),


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.
- Exploring Space (Nicole Stott),  


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.
- Autonomous vehicle liability,  


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.
- Use of psychedelic drugs in treatment of mental illness,


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If you have a comment, please get in touch, especially if you can refer me to a suitable speaker on any of the topics above.


= 2019 Programme =
Provisional dates for 2019 are as follows:


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Revision as of 04:59, 17 December 2021

Now planning meetings for the 2022 Season

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2022 Programme

I am currently working on the 2022 programme. I hope to have talks on the following subjects:

- Dark Matter,

- Quantum computing,

- Cyptocurrencies,

- Applied Artificial Intelligence (speaker from DeepMind),

- Exploring Space (Nicole Stott),

- Autonomous vehicle liability,

- Use of psychedelic drugs in treatment of mental illness,

- The Chinese social credit system (or related).

If you have a comment, please get in touch, especially if you can refer me to a suitable speaker on any of the topics above.


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