Homerton Healthcare signs deal with Sectra for enterprise imaging
Homerton Healthcare has signed a contract for Sectra’s enterprise imaging solution, which will improve the speed and efficiency at which diagnoses are made.
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CliniSys acquires laboratory information management provider ApolloLIMS
CliniSys has acquired ApolloLIMS as it looks to create a new wave of digital diagnostics and laboratories across the care and community sector.
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Scans in vans and AI – are we set for a quantum leap in taking diagnostics to patients?
Could technological advances and a new willingness to do things out of hospital see the NHS upgrade its diagnostic services?
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Government pledges £50m for AI to improve diagnosis of deadly disease
The investment aims to speed up the diagnosis of deadly diseases like cancer through using AI to upgrade pathology and imaging services.
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Government invests £130m in new tech to tackle life-changing diseases
This includes £50m going towards NHS diagnostic services and support the work of existing ‘centres of excellence’ in digital pathology and imaging with AI.
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Simon Stevens calls for greater investment in diagnostics at NHS Expo
In his keynote address Simon Stevens said more funding was needed to build on recent Government investments, including the £250 million for an AI Lab.
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Oxford imaging firm lends AI smarts to £50m government initiative
The work will be funded under Wave 2 of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund to improve the speed and efficiency of cancer diagnoses and treatment.
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Ultromics AI platform to expand trials to 20 NHS hospitals
A British AI platform for assisting with the diagnosis of heart disease will enter trials with 20 NHS hospitals before the end of 2018, after securing £10 million in first-round funding.
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St Andrews team scoops Life Sciences Award for work in antibiotic resistance
The Orbital Diagnostics team at St Andrews has won the Innovation Award at Scotland’s Life Sciences Awards for the development of a device – the Scattered Light Integrated Collector (SLIC) – which reduces the time taken to test bacteria for resistance.
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New NHS and academic partnership aims to advance diagnostic technology
A collection of healthcare and academic institutions in North East England are pooling their resources in an attempt to advance the field of medical diagnostics.
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