Medical Xpress June 8, 2025
A home device that scans someone’s feet as soon as they get out of bed in the morning could keep people with heart failure out of hospital, according to research presented Tuesday at the British Cardiovascular Society conference in Manchester.
More than a million people in the U.K. have heart failure which, when not fully controlled by medication or lifestyle factors, can lead them to be hospitalized.
Now an AI device with “foot recognition,” similar to face-recognition technology, could potentially flag when heart failure is becoming severe and life-threatening—delivering an alert 13 days before a person would end up in hospital, according to new research supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).
The wall-mounted device, which...
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