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2022 HDI Internship Programme
HDI Interns will be a group of outstanding individuals drawn from a diverse range of disciplines who come together to work as a team on a real-world problem.
New HDI Fellowships for 2022
We are delighted to announce that for the first time in summer 2022, we will be running the HDI Fellowship Programme. HDI Fellows will be a group of outstanding graduates drawn from a diverse range of disciplines who come together to work as a team on a real-world...
Updated version of Simulacrum released
We are pleased to announce the release of an updated version of the Simulacrum containing two additional years of diagnostic data (2013 – 2017 diagnoses) and treatment follow up to March 2018. This new version of the Simulacrum contains almost twice as many synthetic...
2021 interns create TheatreCapture
Our 2021 interns built TheatreCapture, a cheap and simple method of collecting information from operating theatres. Our interns, Jacob, Laith, Louise, Alex, Jaskirat and Tom worked fantastically as a group for 8 weeks to create an innovative data collection...
Running an intern scheme in a global pandemic
A different year This year's intern scheme at Health Data Insight was intended to be different but we obviously didn't intend to run it in a global pandemic. COVID-19 meant changes to the planning and running of the internship, and here we reflect on how it worked...
HDI symposium, 2019
In November 2019, we held our 4th annual symposium in Cambridge to share some of the work we’ve been doing this year. Over 50 people attended the day, with friends and colleagues joining us from across Public Health England, AstraZeneca, IQVIA, and the NHS. The day...
2019 interns visualise, build, automate, simulate, test and experiment
This past summer was the fourth year of our annual internship programme here at Health Data Insight. Five interns from across the country joined us for 10 weeks over the summer to work on projects with healthcare data. Read on to hear about what each of them has been...
Blog: AIME 2019 the 17th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Poznan, Poland, June 2019 A blog by Sally Vernon The European Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) was established in 1986, and has two principal aims - to foster fundamental and applied research in the application of artificial intelligence (AI)...
Blog: The IACR and NAACCR Conference, Vancouver 2019
The joint International Association of Cancer Registries and North American Association of Central Cancer Registries conference 2019, Vancouver written by Cong Chen The IACR is an organisation based in France which coordinates cancer registration practices and rules...