Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
Today’s briefing includes an announcement of a leadership transition at Imprivata and news of an AI-enabled stethoscope to monitor asthma at home
News
Skin Analytics looks to remap patient pathways for cancer diagnoses
Fresh off a Digital Heath Hub award at the HLTH annual conference in Las Vegas in October, Skin Analytics aims to help rebuild patient pathways.
News
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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Skin Analytics awarded funding to scale AI tech that detects skin cancer
Skin Analytics has been awarded NHS Cancer Programme Innovation open call funding to scale its AI technology that detects skin cancer in the NHS.
News
Skin Analytics’ DERM technology revolutionising skin cancer care
CEO of Skin Analytics Neil Daly speaks to Digital Health about its AI tool to tackle skin cancer, including its results, benefits and challenges.
Clinical Software
New AI skin scanner available for myGP app users
myGP app users now have access to free artificial intelligence (AI) powered skin scanning technology, provided by AI skin checker Autoderm.
Digital Patient
Bupa UK launches remote skin assessment service to help detect cancer
Bupa UK has announced it has launched a new remote skin assessment service which will help customers to detect skin cancers from home.
Digital Patient
Safeguarding skin cancer services during Covid-19 using teledermatology
Dr Amy Poyner, a GP on the Isle of Wight, highlights how using teledermatology has ensured referrals continue as normal during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Feature
Skin cancer apps ‘cannot be relied upon for accurate results’, study finds
Experts found the apps may cause harm from failure to identify potentially deadly skin cancers, or from over-investigation such as removing harmless moles.
Digital Patient
App’s skin cancer detection capability ‘well above that of GPs’
Researchers determined that the SkinVision app had a sensitivity of 95% in detecting the most common forms of the disease and a specificity of 78%.
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