A Cincinnati-based Christ Hospital physician has developed an app that uses artificial intelligence to read electrocardiograms, NBC affiliate WLWT5 reported March 25.
The app, called Queen of Hearts, allows clinicians to snap a picture of ECG scans and generate an AI-powered analysis.
“The time to treatment got faster,” Timothy Henry, MD, Carl and Edyth Lindner Family Distinguished Chair in Clinical Research and medical director of the Carl and Edyth Lindner Center for Research and Education, told the news outlet. “So if time to treatment gets faster, that decreases the size of your heart attack and people live longer.”
A study published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions retroactively looked at 1,032 patients with suspected STEMI who triggered emergency reperfusion protocols and found the tool had a 95% accuracy rate in complicated cases that were often missed. It performed better than standard triage, detecting 553 of 601 confirmed heart attacks, compared to 427 identified by standard triage.
The app also had a false positive rate of 7.9%, compared to 41.8% for standard triage.
“Ninety percent of the false positives were taken away. So that’s a huge savings for your system,” Dr. Henry said.
The study is currently under FDA review.
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