Leading the team through a rapid growth
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A mobile app that analyses blood samples and alerts clinicians to acute kidney injury is live in two London hospitals, with a year-long clinical evaluation forthcoming; the engineering group grows 20 to 80 in a bit over a year. Practical claims: focus on explicit trade-offs, intentional handling of accumulating technical debt, and building security and privacy from day one so hire a security expert. Concrete people work: hire responsibly, monitor burnout and psychological safety, and create scalable top‑down and bottom‑up communication channels.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:40Healthcare
- 2:00Modern Healthcare
- 2:16Dashboards
- 2:47Communication
- 3:14Pager
- 3:59Technology
- 4:55Mobile App
- 5:39Live Deployment
- 7:13Impact
- 8:37Technical debt
- 12:10Security privacy
- 14:08People
- 21:59Summary
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