Review of national cancer screening programmes to include focus on AI
Professor Sir Mike Richards will lead the review, which will also focus on current and future IT systems. The review is due to be published in the summer.
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New online tool could help GPs predict woman’s risk of breast cancer
The calculator, which combines a woman’s family history with lifestyle factors, is the ‘most comprehensive method yet’ to predict the risk of the disease.
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Barking digitises breast screening
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a five-year contract with Sectra to implement a new breast imaging PACS, replacing its existing film-based system.
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Agfa completes deployments at two trusts
Agfa HealthCare has completed deployments of its systems at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
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Cornwall integrates breast screening
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has streamlined its breast imaging system to fully integrate it with the National Breast Screening Service system. The trust has implemented six syngo MammoReport workstations from Siemens to provide reading and reporting of mammograms in both screening and diagnostic settings. The workstations, which are based at the Mermaid Centre […]
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Derby City leads on breast imaging
Only one of England’s 82 local breast screening programmes is fully integrated with its local PACS – but other sites are making progress, UKRC 2010 heard this week.
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Image conscious
Despite the new age of austerity, the PACS/RIS community is looking to future investment, Linda Davidson finds on the eve of UKRC.
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Dorset invests in Carestream PACS
Carestream Health has been awarded a contract to supply a Carestream PACS, high resolution diagnostic mammography workstations and integrated radiology information system to Dorset Breast Screening Unit. Five high resolution diagnostic workstations will be based at Poole Hospital and will allow radiologists to enhance and manipulate images. The screening unit provides mammographic services to more than […]
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E-Health Insider’s industry round up 18.12.2008
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round covers system deployments, agreements, new products, appointments and other changes at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Data Transfer Service contract negotiations complete NHS Connecting for Health has announced that it has completed contract negotiations for the ongoing provision of the Data Transfer Service with BT. Existing contractual arrangements ended in […]
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