Forbes September 10, 2019
Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence tool that lets doctors determine whether someone is having a heart attack much faster than current methods.
New research published by healthcare firm Abbott shows that its algorithm could enable hospital accident and emergency departments to more accurately identify and treat patients having a cardiac arrest.
The study, which involved researchers from the U.S., Germany, U.K., Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand and more than 11,000 patients, found that AI could provide doctors a more comprehensive analysis of the probability that a patient was having a heart attack.
Agim Beshiri, a senior medical director at Abbott, said: “AI technology has the capability to consider many variables, characteristics and data points and combine them in seconds...
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