OUR AIM
Digital technologies are reshaping our bodies, our minds, and our experience of health and disease. Whether it's vertigo secondary to virtual reality, or harm from a hacked insulin pump, new technologies come with new pathologies. We are a community of patients, advocates, healthcare professionals & technology experts seeking to understand illnesses arising at the intersection of health and technology. Join our community to find out more.
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OUR TEAM
Our diverse team covers a range of disciplines including cybersecurity, clinical medicine, healthcare policy, public health and bioengineering. Read more here.
“An engaging talk that exposed a gap in traditional medical training"
Dr James Lai
Emergency Medicine Specialty Registrar
“Important training for all clinicians - should be taught in medical schools!"
Dr Joanna Dobbin
GP & Academic Clinical Fellow
“Thought-provoking new training for the digital age of medicine - essential for any clinician "
Dr Kim Stallard
Doctor in Emergency Medicine & Acute Care
OUR RESEARCH
Peer-reviewed publications
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Straw, I., Rees, G. & Nachev, P. 21st century medicine and emerging biotechnological syndromes: a cross-disciplinary systematic review of novel patient presentations in the age of technology. BMC Digit Health 1, 41. 2023. Read here.
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Straw I, Dobbin J, Luna-Reaver D, Tanczer L. Simulation-based research for digital health pathologies: A multi-site mixed-methods study. Digital Health. 2024.. Read here.
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Straw, I., Kirkby, C., & Gopinath, P. (2024). Connected to the cloud at time of death: a case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports, 18(1), 360. Read here.
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Straw I, Dobbin J, Luna-Reaver D, et al. Diagnosing digital pathologies and preventing digital deaths: clinical simulation training in medical emergencies relating to technology. Emergency Medicine Journal 2023;40:888. Read here.
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Straw I, Tanczer L. Digital technologies and emerging harms: identifying the risks of technology-facilitated abuse on young people in clinical settings. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2023;108:A54. Read here.
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Straw I, Tanczer L. Safeguarding patients from technology-facilitated abuse in clinical settings: A narrative review. PLOS Digital Health. 4th January 2022. Read here.
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Straw I, Ashworth C, Radford N. ‘When Brain Devices Go Wrong: A Patient with a Malfunctioning Deep Brain Stimulator (DBS) Presents to the Emergency Department’. British Medical Journal (BMJ) Case Reports, vol. 15, no. 12, Dec. 2022. Read here.
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Straw I, and Wu H. ‘Investigating for Bias in Healthcare Algorithms: A Sex-Stratified Analysis of Supervised Machine Learning Models in Liver Disease Prediction’. British Medical Journal, Health & Care Informatics, v.29, no. 1 (2022). Read here.
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Straw I, Callison-Burch C. “Artificial Intelligence in mental health and the biases of language-based models”. PLOS ONE, vol. 15, no. 12, p. e0240376. (Dec 2020). Read here.
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Straw, I. “The automation of bias in medical Artificial Intelligence (AI): Decoding the past to create a better future”. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 110, (Nov. 2020). Read here.
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Straw, I. ‘Ethical Implications of Emotion Mining in Medicine’. Health Policy and Technology, vol. 10, no. 1. pp. 191–95. (2021) Read here.
Our Organisation
bleepDigital is an independent non-profit initiative registered in the UK with Companies House as a Company Limited by Guarantee (CLG).
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PO Box 307
Bleepdigital
Petersfield Delivery Office
United Kingdom
GU32 9HH
Incorporated 2023