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...
Opportunity for Health Data Analyst / Scientist
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to support the use of population-level data by scientists involved in cancer research. This is an exciting opportunity to join an experienced team of cancer analysts and develop your skills in data science. You should be a good communicator, able to build strong relationships and work collaboratively with colleagues and key stakeholders.
Cancer Analysis Project Manager
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to support the use of population-level data in cancer analysis. This is an exciting opportunity to project manage the development and improvement of the analytical processes related to the National Cancer Audits. You should be a good communicator, able to build strong relationships and work collaboratively with colleagues and key stakeholders.
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...
HDI collaborates with machine learning experts to explore new ways to improve patient outcomes
In March 2019, Health Data Insight joined forces with Professor Mihaela van der Schaar and eight data science PhD students from the Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Medicine group to explore how machine learning can be used to improve outcomes in...
Cancer Data Internships 2019
What is the opportunity? We are offering up to five internships working on data collected by the largest cancer registry in the world. You will have the opportunity to...
The Simulacrum is launched
This new database revolutionises the way scientists and researchers investigating cancer analyse the disease. The Simulacrum, so called because it artificially simulates real data about cancer without any risk of individual patients being identified, is a breakthrough...
HDI: annual symposium
In November 2018, HDI held its annual symposium. Once again the teams excelled themselves by showing the projects they’ve been working on. This years’ hot topics included looking at ways to use primary care prescription data to find people who might be suspected of...