Please note, this page has been archived and is no longer being updated.
Professor Harold Thimbleby will give a Gresham College lecture at the Museum of London this February
Date: Tuesday 11 February 2014
Time and Venue: 6 pm at the Museum of London
Title: Designing IT to make Healthcare Safer
Speaker: Harold Thimbleby Hon FRCP, Emeritus Gresham Professor of Geometry
If preventable error in hospitals was a disease, it would be our sixth biggest killer, ahead of diabetes and ahead of road accidents. We have had so many problems with IT systems in hospitals that some have argued that healthcare has become an IT problem, and certainly it is one of the key barriers to improving healthcare. This lecture focuses on computer and IT systems in hospitals, including mobile devices, what's wrong with them and how they can be improved. Such problems are ubiquitous, and by no means limited to healthcare.
For further information, click here.
- Monday 13 January 2014 10.24 GMT
- Monday 13 January 2014 10.27 GMT
- Mari Hooson