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The Evidence Space #5: Ensuring clinical safety: safety by design

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  • Duration: 18 mins
  • Publication date: 19 Aug 2021

Abstract

This is part five of The Evidence space episode 'Ensuring clinical safety: safety by design'

The second part of our two-part podcast - design safety in healthcare technologies, mitigating design challenges and the potential harm in digital health interventions.

We continued the conversation with Dr Matthew Fenech and Stuart Harrison about clinical safety.

On this week’s episode, we looked at the meaning of ‘Safety by design’, mitigating design challenges, how manufactures can demonstrate safety in innovations and more.

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  • Dr Peter Bannister
  • Eleonora Harwich
  • Healthcare regulation: mandatory or optional?
  • The Evidence Space
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  • design challenges
  • digital health intervention
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  • how technologies can be designed for the patient
  • life sciences
  • medical devices
  • medical innovations
  • new solutions for healthcare
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  • patient collected data
  • podcast
  • safety by design
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  • share healthcare knowledge
  • the Evidence Space Podcast
  • the healthcare podcast
  • value of technology for health

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  • Dr Matt Fenech

    Dr Matt Fenech

    Matt, MD, Ph.D. is Medical Safety Lead at Ada Health, a global digital health company making personalised health accessible for all. His main interest is in developing frameworks that ensure healthtech tools are safe, effective, and acceptable to patients and healthcare providers alike. Following 10 years of experience at the sharp end of clinical academia, he worked in technology policy, where he was the lead author of a seminal Wellcome Trust report on ‘Ethical, Social, and Political Challenges of AI in Health’, wrote a chapter for the Chief Medical Officer’s Annual Report on ‘Health 2040 - better health within reach’, and led the design of an NHSX-supported toolkit to accompany the Code of Conduct for data-driven technologies in health. He has also authored a number of peer-reviewed publications on the ethical and safety considerations of the application of AI in healthcare, as well as reports about the risks and opportunities of emerging technologies in low-/middle-income countries.
  • Stuart Harrison

    Stuart Harrison

    Stuart Harrison has led the Clinical Safety movement in the NHS alongside some of the most prominent clinical leaders for over 15 years. Stuart has refined NHS Clinical Safety & Risk Management Systems, re-authored NHS safety standards using plain English campaigns, and worked at the highest level to ensure core safety engineering principles are embedded in the NHS code of practice. These will be the foundational principles in which health informatics will be led throughout the next ten years or more. Stuart is now the co-founder & director of a company providing ethical services to the health industry. ETHOS Ltd was formed in 2014 as a result of a feasibility study completed in partnership with a large Pharmaceutical company in the interests of furthering medical science/ MedTech innovation.
  • Dr Peter  Bannister

    Dr Peter Bannister

    The IET Healthcare Panel, Chair

    Dr Peter Bannister has held senior executive positions in multiple high-tech university spin-outs, has over 15 years’ experience translating novel imaging technologies from lab to market and is a senior advisor to companies working in fields such as AI and minimally-invasive surgery. He is VP Clinical Innovation at Mirada Medical, where he is product champion for deep learning radiation oncology systems.Peter was awarded his DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford, where he was one of the original developers of the Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB) Software Library for image analysis. Subsequently, he held a post-doctoral research appointment in machine learning for complex industrial systems in collaboration with Rolls-Royce Plc.
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