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The first of a series of articles on quality improvement in paediatrics and child health was published in Education and Practice in September 2013. 

In this podcast Dr Ashley Reece discusses the series with Dr Bob Klaber and Dr Alice Roueche. They discuss why these articles were commissioned, what quality improvement is and how it fits into our clinical practice with examples of QI initiatives. They also headline future articles in this series on which more podcasts are planned.

Equipped: Quality improvement in paediatrics and child health (long version)

Modern medicine has extended our lives, but is it helping us to live better in terms of aging and dying? In his new book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, surgeon Atul Gawande says that we have medicalized aging. Gawande examines how we can improve end-of-life care, from developing better nursing homes to holding honest conversations in the doctor’s office.

Read an excerpt at http://scifri.me/sspinx

Atul Gawande: On Being Mortal

In this episode, I talk with Steven Shorrock, a human factors and safety science specialist. We discuss the dangers of blaming human error, studying success along with failure, and how humans are critical to making our systems resilient.

Steven Shorrock on the Myth of Human Error

In this episode of the Security Podcast, I talk with Andrea Limbago, chief social scientist at Endgame. We discuss how the misperception of security as a computer science skillset ultimately restricts innovation, the need to make security easier and accessible for everyone, and how current branding of security can discourage newcomers.

Andrea Limbago on the Effects of Security's Branding Problem

In this episode of the Security Podcast, I talk with Charles Givre, senior lead data scientist at Orbital Insight. We discuss how data science skills are increasingly important for security professionals, the critical role of data scientists in making the results of their work accessible to even nontechnical stakeholders, and using machine learning as a dynamic filter for vast amounts of data.

Charles Givre on the Impetus for Training All Security Teams in Basic Data Science

In this episode of the Security Podcast, O’Reilly’s Mac Slocum talks with Susan Sons, senior systems analyst for the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR) at Indiana University. They discuss how she initially got involved with fixing the open source Network Time Protocol (NTP) project, recruiting and training new people to help maintain open source projects like NTP, and how security needn’t be an impediment to organizations moving quickly.

Susan Sons on Building Security from First Principles

In this episode of the Security Podcast, I talk with Christie Terrill, partner at Bishop Fox. We discuss the importance of educating businesses on the complexities of “being secure,” how to approach building a strong security program, and aligning security goals with the larger processes and goals of the business.

Christie Terrill on Building a High-Caliber Security Program in 90 Days

In this episode of the Security Podcast, I talk with Rich Smith, director of labs at Duo Labs, the research arm of Duo Security. We discuss the goals of agile application security, how to reframe success for security teams, and the short- and long-term implications of your security culture.

Rich Smith on Redefining Success for Security Teams and Managing Security Culture

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators. At O’Reilly, a big part of our business is paying attention to what’s new and interesting in the world of technology. We have a pretty good record at having anticipated some of the big technology developments in recent history. For instance, we launched the first commercial Web site, GNN, in 1993; we organized the meeting at which the term “open source” was first adopted; we were early investors in Blogger, which helped launch the blogging revolution; and more recently, our Web 2.0 conference launched a world-wide meme. We call this predictive sense the “O’Reilly Radar.” And while we’re certainly not always right, we are, at least, good at making interesting guesses.

Our methodology is simple: we draw from the wisdom of the alpha geeks in our midst, paying attention to what’s interesting to them, amplifying these weak signals, and seeing where they fit into the innovation ecology. Add to that the original research conducted by our Research team, and you start to get a good picture of what the technology world is thinking about.

Steven Shorrock on the Myth of Human Error

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