Fix IT
How to see and solve the problems of digital healthcare
Prof Harold Thimbleby
See Change Fellow in Digital Health
October 2021
Winner of the BMA (British Medical Association) General Medicine best book award
The BMA Awards Panel wrote: “It is such an important book. Our ability to help patients is so reliant on IT and digital solutions. It has the broadest appeal and has achieved something quite impressive. It is not just medically-focused in presenting solutions. A real strength is that it takes examples from outside of healthcare and translates them into healthcare. It should be read by all healthcare staff.” |
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This is an important, badly needed book, written in a lively enjoyable style. It should be required reading for anyone who is in healthcare or who develops, designs, and builds healthcare instruments, devices, and procedures. Don Norman |
This book draws you in from the start. It is a must read for anybody who cares about improving the state of healthcare with the goal of better patient outcomes. Sally Lewis |
This is an extraordinary book: a potent and engaging compendium of revelatory stories, bold insights, wise advice, and fresh thinking. This book has the potential to revolutionize digital healthcare, and will be a source of inspiration to everyone, whether in healthcare or beyond. Prof Daniel Jackson |
I’m loving your book. Cancelled what I was doing this afternoon to carry on reading it. This is a brilliant and hugely enjoyable book which should be compulsory reading for anyone with high-level responsibility for patient care. Dr Martin Elliott |
Harold Thimbleby turns tales of healthcare technologies’ limits and failures into engaging and instructive stories that are a pure joy to read. It’s a very rare book that makes me call or email my friends several times each hour with quotes or insights from every chapter. It’s an extraordinary book that forces me to change my medical informatics courses every week! Prof Ross Koppel |
Harold Thimbleby’s lifetime devotion to fixing the problems with medical devices and systems shines through in this amazing book. The profusion of compelling examples are told with stories of real patients who were harmed and heroic medical professionals who tried their best. The deadly dramas are lucidly told with literary skill and scientific integrity, which should inspire Hollywood films. Prof Ben Shneiderman |