The primary aim of DigiBOB, the mega project to bring the Dutch national breast screening program into the digital age, is to detect more cases of early-stage breast cancer. Early diagnosis means earlier intervention. But that is not all: there are many more advantages to DigiBOB, both for the 700 care providers involved and for the 1 million women who undergo screening each year. Philips, principal contractor for this groundbreaking digitization project, has helped to make it all possible.
DigiBOB is the largest and most complex digitization operation in Dutch healthcare ever.
The project comprises four inextricably linked components:
- The replacement of all 57 mobile screening units ('mammobiles') with new ones
- The replacement of all analog scanners (mammogram machines) with digital ones
- The renovation of all 65 screening units (57 mobile, seven permanent)
- The creation of a single national database on which all the information (including images) relating to all the customers throughout the Netherlands can be held in digital form.
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