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How university-led research is driving the use of AI for diagnosis and screening in conditions including breast cancer and dementia

The University of Aberdeen is working with NHS Grampian on AI breast screening technology; University of Sheffield is working on an AI tool to speed up dementia diagnosis; and Newcastle University’s COLO-DETECT study aims to use AI to detect early signs of colon cancer. The University of Aberdeen recently announced […]

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EPMA goes live at Nottingham University Hospitals

Nervecentre’s electronic prescribing and medicines administration solution has gone live across Nottingham University Hospitals. The City Hospital went live with the system in May, across two weekends, and Queen’s Medical Centre moved to the new system earlier this month. It means the hospitals have moved away from a paper process to the […]

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East Lancs countdowns to EPR go live this weekend

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is counting down to going live with its electronic patient record system, due to go live 16-19 June. The programme at East Lancashire is known as ‘eLancs’, and is designed to improve patient care by replacing paper-based notes and records with digital tools. Over recent […]

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The Royal Marsden goes live with EPR

The Royal Marsden NHS FT has gone live with Connect, its electronic patient record. Described as “the largest and most important digital transformation programme in The Royal Marsden’s history”, the Epic electronic health record went live at 4:00pm, 17 March. The trust also introduced a patient app and website called MyMarsden. […]