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26 February 2026

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ā˜•

Today's round-up features a study that demonstrates AI may be no more effective than Google at identifying health conditions.
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15 April 2025

NHS App ā€˜ping and bookā€™ breast screening pilot launches

NHS England has launched a ā€˜ping and bookā€™ pilot project using the NHS App to invite participants to their breast
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4 February 2025

Government launches AI breast cancer trial

The government has announced the launch of a trial that will test how AI tools can be used to detect
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4 October 2024

Trial will allow women to book breast diagnostic clinics via NHS App

Women in Somerset with breast lumps will be directly referred to a breast diagnostic clinic via the NHS App under
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10 March 2023

Industry news in brief

The latest Digital Health news industry round-up includes an award for Mendelian to develop its AI solutions and a pilot
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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 ā€œlike magicā€ in healthcare but there is little scientific evidence to support its use
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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Outdated cancer IT systems ‘jeopardising patient care’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 ā€œas
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