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24 April 2018

Baroness Tessa Jowell to hand over medical data to global database

Baroness Tessa Jowell is to be the first cancer patient to hand over her medical data to a global database which
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13 April 2018

Double robot surgery carried out at The Royal Marsden Hospital

Surgeons Shahnawaz Rasheed and Marielle Nobbenhuis sat on opposite sides of the da Vinci Xi robotic console to perform a hysterectomy on
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5 April 2018

Rapid cancer diagnosis centres to be introduced at 10 NHS hospitals

New rapid diagnostic and assessment centres for cancer are being set up in England as part of efforts to catch
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27 March 2018

Research claims AI system can diagnose prostate cancer as accurately as pathologist

Scientists and clinicians in China have developed a learning artificial intelligence (AI) system which they say can identify cancerous prostate
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5 December 2017

Miiskin teams up with the British Skin Foundation to support self-checking

Skin checking app Miiskin has teamed up with the British Skin Foundation to promote skin cancer awareness and self-checking.
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30 October 2017

Macmillan Cancer Support launches own digital nurse to combat ‘fake news’

Macmillian Cancer Support has appointed a digital nurse to help combat ‘fake news’ online after it feared patients turned to
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3 October 2017

West Herts tenders for a new cancer information system

The Macmillan Cancer Information Centre is currently using Chameleon IMS which it deployed back in 2009. The contract due to expire
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14 August 2017

Trustedoctor allows brain tumour patients access to world leading doctors

Trustedoctor launches world-wide allowing cancer patients to find and be treated by the very best cancer doctors in their field.
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7 August 2017

St George’s trust treatment data still inaccurate – CQC

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comes under investigation by the CQC revealing its treatment data is still inaccurate.
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10 March 2017

Healthcare IT news in brief

In this week's health IT round-up we cover the NHS calling in military help on cyber attack, a tweeting surgeon,
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