Prof Joe McDonald

I published a book this week
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YouTube video by Everything Digital Health 'Make Medicine Fun Again' with Joe McDonald - HIMSS 2025 and Ambient AI Assistants

If you enjoyed that discussion with @adebyrne.bsky.social then you'll probably also love the "'Make Medicine Fun Again' with Joe McDonald - HIMSS 2025 and Ambient AI Assistants" chat I had just a few days before, with @comparesoftware.bsky.social

youtu.be/2gB8FAn_FK8

U.S.A.I.D. Official Orders Employees to Shred or Burn Classified and Personnel Records A union representing career diplomats demanded that the aid agency follow the law stated in the Federal Records Act. Some documents could be relevant in court cases.

Feds have to take annual trainings about document retention and classified-materials markings. I’ve probably received this training a half-dozen times. And what we learn is that *wow is this not allowed even a little bit*. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...

This is just dreadful. Good luck.

a close up of a person 's face with the words " the horror , the horror " written below it ALT: a close up of a person 's face with the words " the horror , the horror " written below it

The deal?
Putin"I want Zelensky, Macron& Starmer all humiliated on live primetime TV on consecutive nights, and then Zelensky fired, apprentice style. I keep what we've taken but promise I won't take the rest of the Ukraine until after your term is up."

Trump:"ok"

#theartofthedeal

God help us. Trump thinks being president is the same as running an episode of The Apprentice.

YouTube video by Faculty of Clinical Informatics FCI Webinar - The Great North Care Record: Lessons of NPfIT Learned AND Applied

I hope you haven't been fired in the madness that seems to have overtaken the USA but if you have, fear not. When I got fired for my "career limiting frankness" it was quite liberating youtu.be/NEVhvP8E48c?...

ow.ly/PcaC50V4hBy new job at The Access Group, talk to me about it at Rewired
@dhrewired.bsky.social

Meyers Briggs - "horoscopes for people LinkedIn accounts" 🤣

A Single Patient Record. What could possibly go wrong?

ESR Replacement - a £1.7 billion accident waiting to happen Things don’t always go as planned. That’s why they invented insurance. In last week’s blog I talked about the Goldilocks Principle in big health IT software development programs. Some programs are ju...

Thrilled that your experience of the madness of software prices reflect ours. Space programmes and nuclear aircraft carriers can cost billions, not software. sardjv.co.uk/esr-replacem...
@digitalhealth2.bsky.social
@jonobacon.bsky.social
@tomski.com
@andrewgreenway.bsky.social

By reputation, of course! At 18F we were always acutely aware we were following in the footsteps of GDS.

Demos not memos, I can't believe I've just discovered you @waldo.net . I guess you know
@tomski.com already?

I do miss my 5000 followers though. Maybe the conversation can be of a higher quality though. I'd love to catch up with you about palliative care and digital health. There's something there that's low.hanging fruit.

I love @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social and all her pals. Delighted to see her over here on @bsky.app

Photo of a metal monument in Nelson, New Zealand, based on Maori unfurling fern symbols. Writing beside it reads 'Only 4 weeks until my trip to New Zealand.'

Photo of a metal monument in Nelson, New Zealand, based on Maori unfurling fern symbols. Writing beside it reads 'I'll be visiting palliative care colleagues over a 4 week tour.'

I'll be spending March in New Zealand.
It's a whistle-stop, 4-week tour, visiting palliative care colleagues, hospices & EoL doulas.
I am so excited!
I'll share the itinerary as soon as it's all confirmed. Hope to meet some Kiwi followers soon 🤞🏼🇳🇿

A beautiful sunset with boats in the Caribbean

Talking 10 year plans with @marcusbaw.bsky.social in The British Virgin Islands

@dhrewired.bsky.social
@digitalhealth2.bsky.social

This is absolutely brilliant. Blown away, not for the first time by @andrewgreenway.bsky.social
"The tyranny of tiny decisions" essential reading for all @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social and @digitalhealth2.bsky.social

The how we need now: a capacity agenda for 2025 and beyondpublic digitalpublic digital Report by Andrew Greenway and Jennifer Pahlka

The unmissable double act of @pahlkadot.bsky.social and @andrewgreenway.bsky.social published this @niskanencenter.bsky.social report on re-invigorating state capacity just before Xmas. Deliberately US centric, leavened by some UK flourishes.
public.digital/pd-insights/...

I suspect Elon Musk's outrageous tweets are a direct response to the risk posed by @bsky.app @dhrewired.bsky.social @digitalhealth2.bsky.social @nhsemployers.bsky.social @publicdigital.bsky.social

Starting 2025 with a short thread of my favourite, must-watch, YouTube video recommendations for anyone in Digital Health, HealthTech, Clinical Informatics, or trying to change culture in large organisations.

Don't do ANYTHING else until you've watched ALL of them.

YouTube video by CUP 2000 ScpA International eHealth Workshop - Bologna, 6 giugno 2016 mattino - Relazione M. Aanestad

More brilliant stuff from Margun Aanestad youtu.be/WfIUo23MPcY?...

YouTube video by Ja A Abilene Paradox, DR. HARVEY, 1981

Next is Jerry Harvey's 1982 talk about the Abilene Paradox - the way organisations (couples, businesses, governments) often end up taking a course of action which is opposed to their interests.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFQ-...

This one came via my good friend @comparesoftware.bsky.social

A soft toy sold as a millennium bug during the Y2K scare at the start of the 2000s. Very appealing with a nice smile and bobbly antennae.

The Millennium Bug says "hi" and Happy New Year 25 years on!

Joe’s View: Out of the darkest Christmas An annual tradition, this year's Joe McDonald Christmas column looks at Christmas past, present and future regarding NHS pressures, IT and digital health.

Happy new year to all. Here's a ghost of Christmas past
#digitalhealth
#interoperability
#FHIR
www.digitalhealth.net/2022/12/joes...

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Digital Health’s 2024 Review: Top 10 most read opinion pieces Although no single theme dominates, several of the best-read opinion pieces reflected on the risks of digital, writes Thelma Agnew.

A number one rant on @digitalhealth2.bsky.social this year
www.digitalhealth.net/2024/12/digi...

Maybe, but the Australian government have invested 17million dollars in building the required community to support interop. #professional

Publication of UK Core Access API Vision Added at request of David Hancock on 18/12/24

It is a great collaboration. I think interopen in the U.K. could be a good vehicle to do the same

www.interopen.co.uk/news/publica...

Interoperability is a global problem but Australia have put together a community, "Sparked" to fix it. Should the NHS do similar or just join in? youtu.be/Vr4YlyoO_Ak?...