Mayo Clinic and A use AI to diagnose

“In the study, more than 22,600 patients received an EKG as part of their usual primary care checkups, then were randomly assigned to have their results analyzed by the AI or by a physician as usual. Because the algorithm immediately sends an alert in a patient’s electronic health record if it detects evidence of low ejection fraction, prompting the patient’s physician to order a follow-up echocardiogram, more patients with a positive result in the AI group received an echocardiogram than those in the usual care group.  Overall, using the algorithm produced 32% more diagnoses of low ejection fraction compared to the typical standard of care, . . and an improvement of 43% among the patients who received positive EKG results. That translates to about five new diagnoses for every 1,000 patients screened.”  MORE

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