Science and Technology Group
Next Meeting: Dr Mohammed Al-Ubaydli, Patient-Centred Medical Data
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.
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.
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.
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.
Month | Day of Month | Speaker | Title |
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February | 21st | Dr James Luke | Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence |
March | 14th | Mr Simon Wright | Gene Editing and Intellectual Property Law |
April | 25th | Prof David Howey | Energy storage technologies - batteries and beyond |
May | 23rd | Dr Mohammed Al-Ubaydli | Patient-Centred Medicine |
June | 12th | Dr Vinton G Cerf | Google and the Internet |
September | 18th | Mr Romain Kidd | 3D Printing |
October | 15th | Prof Paul Newman | Mobile Autonomy |
October | 28th | Dr Gary McLean | Towards a Vaccine for the Common Cold |
2019 Programme
Provisional dates for 2019 are as follows:
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January | 23rd | Dr David Kingman | Small Modular Fusion. |
February | 27th | ||
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April | 24th | ||
May | 29th | ||
June | 26th | ||
September | 18th | ||
October | 23rd | ||
November | 27th |