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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...