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Health and Social Care (HSC) in Northern Ireland has successfully digitised pathology diagnostic images and reports into a medical imaging system that will help to future-proof diagnostics. The digital pathology project, which has been implemented by Business Services Organisation (BSO), is part of Northern Ireland’s PACS. Radiologists in the region already use the same PACS […]

Sahra Deane’s role at Esaote UK has been expanded. With immediate effect, she will be a regional account manager and clinical applications specialist, primarily working across London and the south-east of England. She said: “It is amazing to be given the opportunity to expand my role within Esaote in the UK. This is a great […]

UKIO returns to an in-person event at the ACC Liverpool on July 4-6, 2022. As the UK’s largest imaging and oncology event it’s the place to be for practice-based content and to meet like-minded professionals who just might help you change your service. With the return of the first in-person congress since 2019 comes an […]

Suzanne Oldham has been promoted to the position of managing director of Bracco UK. She joined Bracco in April 2019 as UK sales and marketing manager after 10 years in the clinical nutrition business at Baxter Healthcare. A knowledgeable sales and marketing professional, Oldham has more than 20 years of experience gained with various pharmaceutical […]

An AI created by Bering Limited and a study conducted by iCAIRD, Scotland’s Industrial Centre for AI Research in Digital Diagnostics, have yielded promising results from chest x-rays in a simulated clinical test setting to speed up COVID-19 diagnosis in patients who presented to emergency departments with respiratory symptoms. The iCAIRD study was in partnership […]

Philips UK and Ireland says its partnership with NHS National Services Scotland to deliver the Scottish Breast Screening Programme (SBSP) has become a leading model for breast screening. Through the partnership, as many as 270,000 women in Scotland between the ages of 50 and 70 are invited for screening each year, leading to the prevention […]

The breast imaging service at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the first in the UK to introduce an AI technology from Densitas that evaluates the technical quality of mammograms. The Canadian software company has worked to customise the intelliMammo software to meet the department’s needs and the image quality standards required by the NHS […]

The LEGO Foundation is to donate 600 LEGO MRI scanners to hospitals worldwide to help children cope with the uncertainty of having an MR scan. What started in 2015 as a passion project for LEGO chemical technician Erik Ullerlund Staehr and Odense University Hospital, Denmark, is now being scaled and piloted with new training material […]