British Heart Foundation

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17 November 2023

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕ 

Today's briefing includes an initiative to transform care at home for people in Cornwall and The DHSC launch of Pharmacy
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11 April 2022

AI tool which can detect heart disease being used at Royal Free Hospital

A tool which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to detect heart disease in seconds is being used at the Royal Free
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Virtual reality man
7 March 2022

Evelina London and King’s College London develop VR for heart surgery

Evelina London and King’s College London have joined forces to develop a new VR technology that enables surgeons to better
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20 April 2021

AI tool can identify risk of heart attack ‘years before it strikes’

The CaRi-Heart tool, based on research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), predicts possible heart attacks using routine heart
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3 February 2021

Report reveals digital health technology must be accessible for all

In order to be successful, digital health technology must be accessible to all while still maintaining human aspects of healthcare,
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3 May 2020

UK Biobank collating Covid-19 data for future research purposes

The team, led by chief executive Sir Rory Collins, will develop a resource for 15,000 approved researchers from 85 countries
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27 January 2020

Robotic heart and 3D ‘map’ among finalists for £30m BHF grant

The charities Big Beat Challenge is a global initiative to galvanise researchers and inspire transformational solutions to tackle cardiovascular disease.
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12 December 2019

NHS bosses meet with tech giants to discuss commercial patient database

A secretive meeting, held on 24 October, saw discussions around collecting patient data to improve healthcare services and potentially profit
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8 October 2019

BHF launches £10m national cardiovascular data science centre

The centre will draw data from NHS medical records, national registries and other datasets to explore new therapies and medical
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3 September 2019

Artificial intelligence ‘predicts fatal heart attacks up to 5 years in advance’

Experts at the University of Oxford have developed a “fingerprint” using machine learning, which highlights red flag signs of potential
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