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Cancer Innovation Challenge at Parliamentary Reception

5th February 2020

The Cancer Innovation Challenge were delighted to take part in the The Data Lab’s ‘Supporting Transformative Projects’ event at the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday 21st January.
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SCAN awarded funding to trial My Clinical Outcomes in South East Scotland

6th August 2019

SCAN, the South East Scotland Cancer Network, has been awarded funding from the Cancer Innovation Challenge to trial an implementation of a regional platform for PROMs and PREMs in cancer care in South East Scotland. SCAN will be working with CIC Phase 2's My Clinical Outcomes.
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NHS GGC awarded funding to trial My Clinical Outcomes

5th July 2019

The first successful applicant for the Cancer Innovation Challenge's Health Board Funding Opportunity was NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde with their proposal to trial the CIC Phase 2 solution from My Clinical Outcomes in their Gynaecological Cancer service for patients with ovarian cancer.
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Cancer Innovation Challenge at DataFest 19

10th April 2019

The Cancer Innovation Challenge was part of the Data Summit programme at Data Fest 19, Scotland's two week long festival of data innovation. It was a great opportunity to hear from the Challenge's Phase 2 projects from Px Healthcare, My Clinical Outcomes and Canon Medical Research Europe.
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CIC at Digital Health Product Forge

31st March 2019

The Cancer Innovation Challenge were event partners (along with NHS National Services Scotland and the Innovative Healthcare Delivery Programme) for Europe’s largest health hackathon, the Digital Health Product Forge, on 21-24 February 2019.
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Conference round up!

Steph Wright

14th December 2018

A quick round up of the conferences, workshops and events that Steph Wright, Project Manager of the Cancer Innovation Challenge has been attending.

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Cancer Innovation Challenge at NCRI 2018

3rd December 2018

The Cancer Innovation Challenge exhibited at the National Cancer Research Institute's (NCRI) first conference in Scotland in November 2018.
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Funding opportunity from Nesta!

30th November 2018

New funding opportunity from Nesta. The Healthier Lives Data Fund is a partnership between Nesta and the Scottish Government to invest in and support innovative digital technologies that make data available and useful to citizens to help them lead healthier, and more independent, lives.
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Patients helping to drive innovation in NHS Scotland

Dr Anne Bruinvels

28th September 2018

A guest blog from Dr Anne Bruinvels, Founder of Px HealthCare. Px HealthCare received Phase 2 funding from the Cancer Innovation Challenge's New approaches to record and integrate cancer PROMs and PREMs funding competition

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Great interview with Canon's Phase 2 project in dataIQ

27th September 2018

Great interview in dataIQ with Kevin Blyth and Keith Goatman regarding the Canon Medical Research Europe Phase 2 project for the Cancer Innovation Challenge.
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