This post is a break in the usual coverage but the contents are just so good they demand to be shared.
Uninvited Guests is a brief video produced by Superflux. Superflux have worked and work closely with many of the people that readers of this post are likely to be wary of if not downright hostile to including the United Arab Emirates, the Cabinet Office in the UK, Innovate UK (anything with innovate in it is a Trojan Horse), Microsoft and others.
But this is marvellous. Scroll down beyond the first image and click on the video-link.
We will return to the issue of what is going on with Emily Maitlis next week.
https://www.allure.com/story/rfdi-microchip-implant-in-skin
Human Microchipping Is Here, and It’s About to Rock Your Skin’s World
Soon it will open your front door, start your car, and provide your entire medical history. This is your epidermis as you have never (ever) imagined.
When they microchip it’s the end. Ironically when the Christian belief that We are one body… will now be the “truth” of the new technological body we are embedded in except there will be no Eternal..values but rather an All Powerful ALGORITHM.
Pick up the cane and smash the phone and use the fork to clean up the mess…he has not yet got a talking pillow or slippers …
Cold feet, warm feet, painful feet, do not adjust your set, Uninvited Guests are coming and he will be thrilled to see them…the ‘creepy crawlies’ have not yet – completely infested his home …
‘Former US mental health chief leaves Google for start-up: Tom Insel will help to launch a company to analyse behaviour and mental illness using smartphone data’, 9 May 2017
https://www.nature.com/news/former-us-mental-health-chief-leaves-google-for-start-up-1.21976
Google, of course, was sinister enough.
Off Topic: An aunt of a Swedish Pandemrix narcolepsy victim writes a debate article in the paper Expressen (expressen.se)
In essence, my translation: “After 9 years of struggling with narcolepsy, my nephew commits suicide….”
She isn’t getting any help, she says, not “even” from GSK. Most people who reads Healys blog knows there are no help to be found, from the actual maker of the vaccine, GSK.
This article is unlikely to stir any major debate.
And for us here on Healys blog, we can just sit back and ponder, chanses are this is just another victim of sideeffects who departed prematurely.
This link is google translated: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.expressen.se%2Fdebatt%2Fmin-systerson-tog-sitt-liv-efter-vaccinsprutan%2F
Ove,2018
Depot injections can already be given against people’s will..watch this space.
Perhaps those who dream up ways of controlling our lives could ‘discuss’ the idea of being monitored (helped) with the over 65s when dropping into the surgery for flu jabs, pill top ups, health checks, social prescribing that older people are being pushed into having – with extra payments for successful take ups of course. -but how the heck do they get there without ‘help’. Send a bus out to collect them .save time, save money.
Not to worry new codes of practice/ethics will be drawn up…
I thought the video was cute, and “uninvited guests” an apt title. Glad this man was able to prevail against the technological onslaught.
This type of thing seems increasingly common within systems of care for the elderly and disabled, although sometimes the uninvited guest is a human caregiver when the elder doesn’t recognize the need.
Other times there are cameras about the residence because the family wants to be sure staff treats their family member well.
I visited a friend in a rehab facility that used a device to alert staff when she tried to get out of bed. It was a problem when minimal movement set off the alarm, even when she was trying to sleep, and staff was slow to shut off the noise.
The latest here, as part of the 21st Century Cures Act, is a new policy to have monitoring devices put in the homes of people who receive Medicaid services to reign in providers who might over bill. But many individuals have providers whom they trust and think this is a violation of everyone’s privacy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ihnq0B0GFY
The technologies in themselves aren’t necessarily problematic but can become problematic in how they are used, or misused. They bring up all sorts of issues like trust, autonomy, self-determination, privacy, and the value of human connection, which I think is most at risk.
Panopticon
Could a psychiatrist threaten involuntary hospitalization unless a patient agrees to adherence monitoring technologies? The slippery slope risk is that monitoring our internal health and our medication use could be removed from our personal locus of control to an external one. These devices raise questions that, if not properly addressed, could degrade autonomy.
The Ethics of Smart Pills and Self-Acting Devices: Autonomy, Truth-Telling, and Trust at the Dawn of Digital Medicine
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15265161.2018.1498933
Finally, the ethical issues need to be examined on a continuing basis—rather than at one point in time—as the technology is evolving so rapidly. The bioethical debates may take on different dimensions when we consider a future where individuals may interact with many different devices as compared to a single device. We do not know, for instance, whether at some point the total weight of a digital medicine panopticon may become too great, even if each individual device was acceptable on its own.
Foucault and His Panopticon – power, knowledge, Jeremy …
http://www.moyak.com/papers/michel-foucault-power.html
The Panopticon was a metaphor that allowed Foucault to explore the relationship between 1.) systems of social control and people in a disciplinary situation and, 2.) the power-knowledge concept.
As history shows ethics are based on shifting sands and even where usually tokenistic inclusion of interested groups is considered there will be a dominant group leading those who draw them up..The people codes/laws will impinge on most are never the ones with the most influence. It has taken 20 years to even carry out even a review of the mental health act which breaches human rights at present and will continue to do so see: –
Mental Health Today Dec 6th 2018
Simon Wessley Shares his Independant Review Recommendations
There is no doubt that this is exactly the way we are heading is there – whether we like it or not. More and more of us are on medications year on year with many of them having negative effects therefore more and more ‘checking’ will be needed. We hear that there are less care staff as well as less services so where can things lead except to more advanced gadgets to keep us monitored? Sad state of affairs!
A few things struck me when watching this fantastic video. Firstly – A 70 YEAR OLD is NOT old and the chap in the video certainly does not need ‘monitoring’ in any sense of the word.
Sad to notice that the only human contact he had was with the youngster that ‘walked’ his cane for him. Loneliness is far more likely to kill this gentleman than lack of sleep, food or exercise.
To me, once he’s sorted his gadgets out so that they’re not bothersome, he can lead a comfy, relaxed life – hopefully having visits from his children, either in person or via skype, to add to the welcome daily visit of his cane walker.
What of his children though? Can they relax knowing that they’ve bought their father all the latest bits and bobs to keep him healthy? I don’t think so. Even though the messages from their father’s home seem to signal that he’s doing extremely well, there will be a sense of guilt I believe which will gnaw at their hearts for leaving him with so little human contact other than the rushed messages when things don’t seem to be going quite right.
I’m so glad that this video shows that we of a certain age are nobody’s fools! We may be slow to grasp new tech. but very quick in finding alternative methods of survival.
Do I see any hidden message in this video – yes I do and that is that lack of human contact is going to harm BOTH sides not just the older person. Without human communication none of us can flourish. Caring for others may well mean less time for ourselves but it makes for a contentment and peace of mind that selfishness can never provide
And on the global level:
“Smart Power”
https://www.ageofautism.com/2018/12/smart-power-reasons-for-disaffection-in-italy-and-the-destruction-of-the-post-war-liberal-order.html
EMIS HEALTH Nov 28th 2018 .the leading software provider’
EMIS X has announced several developments :-
one of which is INTELLIGENT CONSULTANT ‘voice recognition is being tested using AI….it will automatically interpret patient-clinician conversations and turn them into medical codes that present relevant data or launch complete decision making tools . Doctors will be able to concentrate fully on the patient rather than retrieving information from the computer.’ Once AI is set up who would be responsible for any errors? In Pulse med mag Deborah White GP suggested patients will learn to manipulate the system but doesn’t say how or why .
Apparently we have had theright to know these codes since 2016 – as ever it has been handled deviously. How many members of the public know that medics are coding us when all that fiddling around with the computer is going on? How many have asked for their codes? How many have been refused as there is the usual cop out – the medic alone can decide to refuse on the basis of potential harms.
Does anyone know what codes are used – I can’t find any info.
These are worth a read even though they have probably been updated since they were published. The sheer volume of info being recorded as is staggering as is the potential for error and the impossibility for correcting them as pointed out in
THE 825 EMIS WEB BATCH DATA MANAGER
For a detailed breakdown of the codes published in 2009 by EMIS there is
CODING AND SUMMARISING PROTOCOL
There is another one used in Scotland published 2014
SCIMP GUIDE TO READ CODES
People have their right to read their notes and to access the summary care record . Many choose not to or more often even now don’t realise they can. With things shifting so quickly regarding use of citizens’ information we should be informed honestly about what information is recorded via codes and how to access them The information being collected is very personal,incredibly detailed includes all aspects of a person’s life and their families and can be ‘shared’ by all involved in their ‘care’ via a huge network, When individuals have found errors in their records in the past it has proved impossible to get them corrected – to try that now would be a nightmare.
Just noticed thebmj has published an article on a new coding system being rolled out .
This has been chosen as the annual bit of fun for Christmas – not so funny for those whose information has been recorded wrongly or it must be said for those who have to use these, to say the least cumbersome and in many ways ridiculous codes
A CHRISTMAS GUIDE TO CLINICAL CODING by Richard Williams Manchester Uni
Shame R W chose to make a mockery of the notes made by an Egyptian medic – by including his note as part of the fun, of ‘virgin mother’ it reveals another significant problem for those from non British backgrounds – how accurately are their notes being recorded. In some countries the term ‘Mother’ is used to denote an older woman.
What’s the code for ‘dogs dinner’?
K9T?
Here’s another interesting video, maybe you’ve seen it. Watch for a cat cameo and Cochrane mention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp3pFjKoZl8