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Coffee Time Briefing
11 December 2023

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕ 

Monday's briefing includes news that Belfast Trust will become the largest trust in Northern Ireland to use encompass - a
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8 August 2023

Digital Apps Digest  

This news digest of digital apps includes Cinapsis helping GPs with skin cancer referrals and Heyr partnering with Imperial to
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Breast Cancer Screening
12 January 2023

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
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Breast Cancer Screening
15 September 2021

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
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27 July 2021

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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8 July 2021

‘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
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Breast Cancer Screening
3 March 2021

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
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2 January 2020

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
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The NHS cervical cancer screening contract is to be removed from Capita and brought back in house
17 October 2019

Outdated cancer IT systems ‘jeopardising patient care’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
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22 August 2019

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
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