The NHS in England is to trial a “superhuman” artificial intelligence tool that predicts a patient’s risk of disease and dying early.
The new technology, known as AI-ECG risk estimation, or Aire, is trained to read the results of electrocardiogram (ECG) tests, which record the electrical activity of the heart and are used to check for problems.
It can detect problems in the structure of the heart that doctors would not be able to see, and flag patients who may benefit from further monitoring, tests or treatment.
In a world first, it will initially be trialled at Imperial College Healthcare NHS trust and Chelsea and Westminster hospital NHS foundation trust, before being tested in other hospitals. It is understood hundreds of patients will be recruited in the first instance, with numbers then scaled up for further studies.
