Weeknotes E11

Hi, I’m Colin a product manager working at the Department of Health and Social Care. Each week I’m going to keep a running update of the work I’ve done & things I’ve learned along the way.

My current priority:

Helping to procure a team capable of delivering the Healthy Start private beta.

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Monday

Tuesday

What I’ve been reading

  1. Singapore health care records get hacked. Backlash against Australia’s new online healthcare records. Security and ease of which to opt-out some of the complaints. Finally, do electronic health records save lives?
  2. Animals are changing their behaviour and evolving in dramatic and surprising ways due to city-living.
  3. Demanding things to be data-driven ain’t simple. People and input inevitably complicate things more than most assume.
  4. Every department should all have a transparent list of services that are easy to find like what the Home Office has done. ODI and Democracy Club collab on a guide to registers. What they are and how they are maintained.
  5. Good things going on at Well and also just came across the Helix Centre that looks really interesting.
  6. Hospital finds robo-assistant from the 1990s. Can i call it a carebot?
  7. What does ‘intuitive’ design mean? We should be making consistent things our users understand not creating things we force upon them.
  8. 5 ideas the health & social care in the UK could nab from other countries.

Shout out to others doing great stuff

Former colleagues in Parliament write updates on the work they are doing. They are fantastic and if you are interested in anything democracy related then check them out: