Glasgow

First of four NHS sites roll out head CT AI to highlight critical head injury scans. A pioneering new multi-NHS site initiative has gone live, aiming to improve radiology report turnaround times for non-contrast CT head scans by creating prioritised reporting worklists of critical findings. This will allow emergency department (ED) clinicians at the Queen […]

A digital health collaboration between the Scottish Government, University of Glasgow, Qure.ai and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is rolling out the AI-powered chest x-ray reporting solution qXR across Glasgow. It is part of a national coordinated evaluation of AI in radiology to improve lung cancer patient outcomes, and to prove clinical and cost effectiveness. […]

Sonosite launched their all-new, premium point-of-care ultrasound system on September 26, 2022 in the UK. Since then, it has been trialled in many departments by doctors and clinicians on the front line of health, to gain valuable feedback. One month later on October 26, 2022, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow became the first hospital […]

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 […]

Radiotherapy staff at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre are adding some fun to the intimidating process of treatment by decorating thermoplastic masks for children. This has proved very successful and children now look forward to being fitted with their own special mask. Based at Glasgow’s Gartnavel campus, the Beatson has been using Klarity […]

Philips will be the principal partner on cross-sector collaboration project PathLAKE, which has received £10 million of government funding to develop innovative AI in pathology.  PathLAKE partners from University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust and teaching hospitals and universities at Warwick, Belfast, Oxford and Nottingham will embed and demonstrate the diagnostic efficiency of digital […]

Speakers and delegates at the Grand Central Hotel. Canon Medical Systems once again took to the road to visit Scotland as part of its popular series of CT Dose Optimisation Study Days.  The event was held at the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow and was fully subscribed with over 40 delegates, some of whom had […]

Participants at the Oxford venue. Canon Medical Systems has followed its successful 2016 CT study days aimed at medical physicists with a series of courses entitled ‘Canon Medical Systems technologies – a physicist’s perspective’.  The one-day events were held in Glasgow, Manchester and Oxford, with invitees including clinical scientists, radiation protection advisors, medical physics experts […]