DrDoctor CEO has high hopes for post-Covid innovation
Speaking to Digital Health, the CEO of DrDoctor has said he hopes the drive for innovation across the health service will continue post Covid-19.
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New £11m programme to explore AI in lung cancer diagnosis
Clinical, imaging and molecular data will be combined for the first time using AI with the aim of more accurately and quickly diagnosing lung cancer.
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House of Lords committee press for NHS Covid-19 app roll-out date
The managing director of the NHS Covid-19 app has a committee that the introduction of the technology is “urgent and important” but could not give a date.
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Calls for innovation fund for radiotherapy tech to help ease cancer backlog
Technology should play a role in easing the “huge” cancer backlog caused by Covid-19, according to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Radiotherapy.
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Londoners have their say on how their health data is used
Londoners have given national and local health leaders a mandate for how they expect their data to be used as part of a region-wide discussion.
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More than two thirds of readers agree with contact-tracing app U-turn
More than two thirds of Digital Health readers have said they agreed with the government’s U-turn on the NHS contact-tracing app.
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Reassurance on privacy of contact-tracing app remains ‘crucial’
Harriet Harman, chair of the joint human rights committee, has written to Matt Hancock requesting further information on how data will be used by the app.
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Firebase URL ‘leaked technical information on Babylon’s GP at Hand’
The database was being used to store testing information for the company’s technology and GP at Hand, revealing the success rate of different functions.
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NHS Covid-19 data store fails to collect and analyse BAME data
The data protection impact assessment (DPIA) on the data store revealed that health information on the virus would not be broken down by ethnicity.
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Collection of BAME Covid-19 data ‘should be mandated’
Public Health England (PHE) has released a series of recommendations aimed at reducing the disproportionate impact of coronavirus on BAME people.
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