SUPPLY CHAIN
“ The supply chain impact of Digistain is the provision of technology that enables healthcare providers to ‘ digitise ’ cancer risk understanding ”
DR . HEMMEL AMRANIA FOUNDER & INVENTOR , DIGISTAIN
“ I am a mother , I ’ m an actress , I ’ m also a breast cancer survivor ,” Womack said . “ 50,000 people like me are diagnosed with breast cancer every year . Sadly , that ’ s up to 11,500 deaths a year , which is almost 32 people a day . The impact of delays in diagnosis and treatment could lead to up to 5,000 excess deaths over 10 years .
Digistain can help save many of those lives . I want to encourage organisations all over the world to make Digistain available to all women .”
Digistain ’ s technology seamlessly integrates with existing pathology workflows , so importantly , there is no friction to the healthcare supply chain . “ The supply chain impact of using Digistain is the provision of technology that enables healthcare providers to ‘ digitise ’ cancer risk understanding and management ,” explains Amrania . “ This means hospitals can offer faster cancer diagnostics services and deliver critical decision-making power , currently inaccessible to many physicians and patients , because existing tests are either too expensive or too slow .”
Over the next 12 months , Doctor Amrania and the Digistain team have one goal : to get their technology out across the world .
“ Alongside extending our work with the NHS in the UK , we are expanding into markets such as Africa and Asia , where the affordability of our technology could have a big impact ,” says Amrania . “ It ’ s important to continually provide clinical evidence and we expect to publish a number of peer reviewed papers that will further validate our approach . We are also planning to enter the United States market in the short term .”
In 95 % of countries , breast cancer is the first or second leading cause of female cancer deaths , yet 80 % of deaths from breast cancer occur in low- and middleincome countries , according to the World Health Organisation . With Digistain ’ s technology and a healthcare supply chain that is supported , those numbers can decrease . healthcare-digital . com 129