FCI Webinar - Code Health for Health Code

Описание: On 25th February, the Faculty of Clinical Informatics hosted a webinar on code health, presented by Dr Arran Schlosberg, Senior Software Engineer at Google Health:

Summary:

Just like humans, code itself can be unhealthy. Unhealthy code is hard to understand, hard to maintain and hard to place our trust in. Deploying it, even in a research setting, can be dangerous to the very patients that we intended to help. But healthy code can be simple and elegant—perhaps even beautiful.

In this talk I'll focus on some of the techniques that we teach at Google for making your software safer, more reliable, and easy for both humans and computers to understand. Why code is a liability, how and why we test it (no, it's not to prove that it works), the benefits of consistent style, and why reading code is always more important than writing it.

Bio:

Dr Arran Schlosberg is a senior software engineer on the Google Health team in London. In this role, he designs and implements software across healthcare, from AI integration to privacy protection, with his most notable contribution being to the Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports. Outside of medical software, he teaches programming style and the Go programming language to other Googlers.

A Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, Arran previously worked as a doctor for NSW Health in Australia where he was responsible for automation of genetic testing in the Sydney Local Health District. He also co-founded the clinical-trial matching platform, HealthMatch.

Arran earned an MPhil in the neurogenetics of obesity from the University of Cambridge, an MBBS from Sydney University and a BCom in actuarial science from Macquarie University.

The Chair and presenter of the webinar are responsible for the content and views expressed in the webinar.