Harold Thimbleby is See Change Fellow in Digital Health, based at Swansea University, Wales. Harold is a popular speaker, and has been invited to talk in over 30 countries.

Harold’s work focuses on the effective initial and continuing iterative design of fit-for-purpose IT systems and the sustained whole organisation focus that is required to sustain a case management system and any software the organisation uses to ensure it actually does the job it is intended to do.

Harold has worked extensively with the English NHS system assisting the NHS in its design and continual whole organisation review and improvement of its IT systems ensure they are effective in supporting the Doctors, Nurses and all treatment professionals in their delivery of health services. Harold’s down to earth and practical book Fix IT draws on countless examples of this work within the NHS as well as examples from other service and business areas including Children’s Services. Harold has also worked alongside Nigel Williams in setting up Childnet.

Together with Prue Thimbleby, Harold has recently published a booklet called Patient Safety: Stories for a Digital World which draws from and illustrates the key messages presented within Fit IT. This booklet is available as a free PDF below.

As a Turnell Plus Associate Professor Thimbleby working together with Andrew and Pene Turnell, Pippa Barker, and Elieen Munro can assist Children’s Service’s agencies to design and sustain effective IT and case management systems.

Harold won the British Computer Society’s Wilkes Medal. His most recent books, Press On and Fix IT have won several national and international awards.

Although a professor of Computer Science, he is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Edinburgh Royal College of Physicians, and the Royal Society of Arts. He’s also a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

Harold has been a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder and a Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow, and he is 28th Gresham Professor of Geometry. Harold is Expert Advisor on IT to the Royal College of Physicians, a member of WHO’s Patient Safety Network, and an advisor to the Clinical Human Factors Group, and the UK Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, MHRA.

More details are available from Harold’s website, http://www.harold.thimbeby.net