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Did you hear about the Fitbit that turned off a pacemaker?

bleepDigital

The missing clinical specialty

Would you know how to respond to a hacked ventilator?
SERVICES

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.

TEAM

OUR TEAM

Our diverse team covers a range of disciplines including cybersecurity, clinical medicine, healthcare policy, public health and bioengineering.  Read more here.

OUR TRAINING FEEDBACK

We offer training sessions at NHS Partner sites around the UK

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

  • 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
     

  • 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. 
     

  • 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
     

  • 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
     

  • 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.
     

  • Straw I, Tanczer L. Safeguarding patients from technology-facilitated abuse in clinical settings: A narrative review. PLOS Digital Health. 4th January 2022. Read here.
     

  • 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.
     

  • 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.
     

  • 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
     

  • 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.
     

  • 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). 
 

Address details:

PO Box 307

Bleepdigital

Petersfield Delivery Office

United Kingdom

GU32 9HH
 

Incorporated 2023

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