Fix IT

Prof Harold Thimbleby is See Change Fellow in Digital Health, based at Swansea University, Wales. He is Expert Advisor on IT to the Royal College of Physicians, a member of the World Health Organization's Patient Safety Network, and an advisor to the Clinical Human Factors Group and to the UK Medicines Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Although a professor of computer science, he is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Edinburgh Royal College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society of Arts; he's also a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He has been a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder and a Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow, and he is 28th Gresham Professor of Geometry. Harold won the British Computer Society's Wilkes Medal and his last book, Press On: Principles of Interaction Programming (MIT Press), won several international awards.

1: How to read this book
PART 1: Diagnosis - riskier than you think
2: We don't know what we don't know
3: Cat Thinking
4: Dogs dancing
5: Fatal overdose
6: Swiss Cheese
7: Victims & second victims
8: Side-effects and scandals
9: The scale of the problem
10: Medical apps and bug blocking
PART 2: Treatment - Finding solutions
11: Cars have got safer
12: Safety Two
13: Computational Thinking
14: Risky calculations
15: Who's accountable?
16: Regulation needs fixing
17: Safe and secure
18: Who profits?
19: Interoperability
20: Human Factors
21: Computer Factors
22: User Centered Design
23: Iterative Design
24: Wedge Thinking
25: Attention to detail
26: Planes have got safer
27: Stories for developers
28: Finding bugs
29: Choose safety
Part 3: Prognosis - a better future
30: Signs of life
31: The pivotal pandemic?
32: Living happily ever after
33: Good reading
34: Notes
35: Healthcare openness and acknowledgements