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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. Applications for 2026 are now open.
2023 Interns develop low-cost solutions to equipment tracking and people navigation in hospital settings
Our five interns, Sophie, Ioana, Filis, Jiaqi and Amos spent 9 weeks this summer working on solutions aimed at improving equipment tracking and people navigation in hospitals. The internship began with Filis, an MSc student in medical anthropology, dedicating several...
HDI data analysts support the AMMF Cholangiocarcinoma Data Project
October is Liver Cancer Awareness Month. AMMF – The Cholangiocarcinoma Charity have launched a new awareness campaign “Rethink Liver Cancer” to highlight the primary liver cancer cholangiocarcinoma (CCA). CCA is less well known, harder to diagnose and thus often...
PEUGIC portal piloted by 13 NHS organisations to enhance endoscopy quality
In preparation for a national roll out in October 2023, the HDI development team has been hard at work developing the Post Endoscopy Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer (PEUGIC) portal. This portal has been added to the NDRS Clinical Audit System developed by HDI which also...
Innovative Insights and Collaborative Spirit: Highlights from the 2023 HDI Symposium
On April 19th, Health Data Insight (HDI) held its 2023 symposium at the Clayton Hotel in Cambridge. The event brought together healthcare professionals, researchers, and industry leaders to share their knowledge, experiences, and insights on the use of health data to...
2022 Interns work on improving patient flow in a hospital setting
Our six interns, Dhylan, Emma, Sreedda, Zoe, Elise and William, and two fellows, Noo and Fred, spent 8 weeks this summer working on solutions aimed at improving patient flow in hospitals. During the first few weeks they focused on one aspect of patient flow:...
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...