Digital Apps Digest
This news digest of digital apps includes Cinapsis helping GPs with skin cancer referrals and Heyr partnering with Imperial to research mental health tools.
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New breast cancer screening units to be directed to areas most at need
The government has pledged to invest in 29 new NHS breast cancer screening units, along with various upgrades, to be directed to areas most in need.
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AI could lead to ‘overdiagnosis’ of breast cancer, tech body warns
The technology is often seen as “like magic” in healthcare but there is little scientific evidence to support its use in screening in breast cancer.
AI and Analytics
Digital Health Unplugged: A chat with Liz O’Riordan
Host Andrea Downey chats one-on-one with Liz O’Riordan, breast cancer survivor and patient advocate about using technology to empower patients.
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‘Empowered patients here to stay’ – Liz O’Riordan on the patient journey
“Despite training all my life to become a breast surgeon I knew nothing of what it was like to be a patient,” Liz O’Riordan told Digital Health News.
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Study to look into how AI could reduce breast cancer diagnosis time
Google Health and Northwestern Medicine are to explore whether artificial intelligence could prioritise reviews of mammograms higher risk of breast cancer.
AI and Analytics
New DeepMind AI ‘spots breast cancer better than clinicians’
Google DeepMind along with a number of partners have developed an AI model which can spot cancer in breast screening mammograms.
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Outdated cancer IT systems ‘jeopardising patient care’
Responding to Sir Mike Richards’ review into national screening programmes charities called for recommendations to be put in place “as soon as possible”.
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Two trusts trial AI to diagnose breast cancer sooner
The trial aims to help develop, test and ultimately deploy artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the breast cancer screening programme in the East Midlands.
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IT needs ‘radical upgrade’ to improve cancer screening, interim report finds
Professor Sir Mike Richards said new IT systems were “urgent priority” and booking an appointment needs to be as “simple as booking a plane ticket online”.
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