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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Outdated cancer IT systems ‘jeopardising patient care’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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30 May 2019

IT needs ‘radical upgrade’ to improve cancer screening, interim report finds

Professor Sir Mike Richards said new IT systems were “urgent priority” and booking an appointment needs to be as “simple
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Breast Cancer Screening
5 February 2019

NAO report concludes screening programmes ‘rely on complex IT’

Responding to the publication of the National Audit Office report, Meg Hillier – chair of the Public Accounts Committee – said it
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Breast Cancer Screening
21 January 2019

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
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Breast Cancer Screening
20 December 2018

Review into breast cancer screening problems uncovers IT challenges

The review is recommending that the IT systems used in the breast cancer screening programme are made simpler to use
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